>Bay Area and for the matter the greater tech community needs to engage the world, not withdraw from it.
> Be afraid all you want, doesn't matter to me.
One of these things is not like the other.
> Be afraid all you want, doesn't matter to me.
One of these things is not like the other.
What am I missing?
A pair of riots in Berkeley within a month, San Jose during the election, the Brendan Eich situation, myriad letters from CEOs post election. To quote sama's recent post [1], "Almost everyone I asked was willing to talk to me, but almost none of them wanted me to use their names—even people from very red states were worried about getting “targeted by those people in Silicon Valley if they knew I voted for him”. One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she’d lose her job if people at her company knew she was a strong Trump supporter."
Care as much or little about the concerns of people not like you as you want, just don't act like you want to have a conversation with them too in the same breath.
1. http://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-heard-from-trump-supporters
Do you think this is reasonable in the context of expressing your support for the leader of your nation at your workplace? I certainly don't think so.