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I would have assumed that lesbian ideas about immigration ran the gamut of the political spectrum, just the same as non-lesbians. It’s curious that they apparently cluster at one end.

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If you're a person facing societal oppression you're likely to (1) recognize that societal oppression actually exists and (2) be sympathetic to others who are facing societal oppression.

> Facing societal oppression

> Sponsored by some of the country's biggest companies: https://lesbianswhotech.org/newyork2019/#Sponsors

For example, here we see a person denying the existence of societal oppression.

Are you implying that no one in an LGBTQ group could be facing societal oppression because they have major sponsors? That's absurd

All the more reason they should support an open environment which allows individual members to decide which companies they do and don't want to work for.

One possible explanation: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/07/08/the-most-intol...

Diversity != Diversity of thought

What I think you're trying to say is:

"A group of people who value diversity overwhelmingly support politics which promote diversity and reject politics which do not. But I wish they either didn't care about diversity or valued diversity in a way that didn't influence their politics because it annoys me."

Diversity of what, though? I've worked at progressive tech companies. They're okay at achieving diversity of skin color, but pretty bad at achieving a diversity of world views. Expulsion explicitly on the basis of the fact that Palantir sells products to ICE is going to reduce diversity by alienating the significant segment of the population that does support border enforcement.

They do, just as immigration stances vary across all populations of people. LWT staff however decided to make a decision based on feedback from some of its members/participants. I don't think any conclusions can be drawn based on the actions of the organizers.

Do you think it's a fair, balanced decision taking in a wide range of opinion or a reactionary one based on a few particularly loud naysayers? Past conference experience leads me to believe it's most likely the later.

Everything correlates with everything. Politics is a special case of that.

It depends on who you're looking at. There are a few "loud", activist-y homosexuals, but most just go live their lives like any one else. You hear a lot more from the "activist-y" types because they tend to be much louder.

Palantir has a group called Palan-queer https://www.palantir.com/diversity/ for LGBT’s

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