> I'm not sure we need more progressive activism in tech. After the way the James Damore thing was handled I'm starting to think maybe tech workers are safer keeping their political beliefs between them and the ballot box.

The whole point of tech-worker organizing is to, for instance, obtain more secure employment than at-will law provides for, keeping companies from firing people who accidentally generate bad publicity by falling into an HR honeypot. Under a sensible system, whatever Damore's private opinions, I do believe it would have counted as Google basically entrapping him.