It's more just than tech startups generally skew younger and newer generations want their companies to reflect their own values. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
And these companies are not in complete chaos. In fact apart from the James Damore incident there hasn't been any significant change in the company cultures.
Yes, actually they did actively court them. Here's one of many examples:
Younger generations are not politically homogeneous, Google picked a political position and pushed it hard.
Secondly, looking at the website that's not even the whole scope of the program. For example, they have diversity initiatives for veterans, people with disabilities, and employee resource groups for older people.
I have no clue what you mean by "diversity" (with scare-quotes), so I can't really answer your question. A simple search for the words "diversity" or "diverse" turns up nothing on the Wikipedia page for left-wing politics.[3]
1. https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/about/company/beliefs-and-cu...
2. https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/who-we-are/global-diver...
Here's Pew research, check page 12: http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/201...
Though I wouldn't call it "very far". Solidarity peak is the same as it was around 2008 (the Great Financial Crises I guess), regulation and waste views are interestingly conflicting, the anti-corporatism shift is happening across all cohorts, so again it doesn't seem like the Dems are going that much more left.
The views of immigration are very polarized. That's interesting, and probably the result of the excessive media coverage plus the very real recent underlying events.
The emptying out of the center is the effect of Trump.
Though it'll be interesting what will happen in the upcoming 2020 primaries. And we'll get a lot of data about what people value. (With the usual caveat about polling and statistics.)
The SF politicians who continue to higher office tend to be mainstream Democrats: Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Scott Wiener, David Chiu, etc.
Does that make the Republican party nazi? Absolutely not and you should not project your feelings on an entire political branch.
Your worldview skews very right if you say that. While I respect you and your opinion, the framing of Google being ‘far-left’ is absolutely out of touch with reality. Sure, Google management tries to have a position in the US culture war but in the end they still work heavily with law enforcement and military and work strongly to suppress worker’s rights.
Google is a trillion dollar company and donates to lots of political causes all over the spectrum. We're talking about the internal politics which are clearly left-wing.
They only seem far-left if you're a reactionary drowning in "Ben Shapiro pwns the libz with LOGIC" videos on YouTube.
By your definition, every corporation is right-wing by the fact that it's a corporation and all leftists want communism.
What part was unclear? What do you think is contradictory?
If the majority of Google workers were leftist it would be structured like Mondragon corp, not like a normal capitalist corporation.
Literally yes, although I'm an ancom and most of the leftists I know are demsoc or anarchist not ML.
2) The thread is about the majority political position of its employees. This is entire separate from the actions as a corporation.
3) Many of things Google does that people think are "right-wing" have nothing to do with left-vs-right at all.
1) Completely contradicts what you said earlier above
2) How? When does it stop being people and start being a corp? Aren't the decisions made by employees?
3) So? You just linked 'diversity' to left and far-left, isn't that the same thing that started this side thread? How is that site linked with activism or left politics? You mentioned a "pretty clear" connection.
The majority political stance is left/far-left. The company is massive and sometimes will do things people consider right-wing, but usually those things are not actually "right-wing" but just normal behavior of a giant corporation seeking to maximize profit and shareholder value.
Corporations and capitalism are not antithetical to left-wing politics.
I could just as easily say it's a decision for the economics of the company and you're projecting your own politics into that, confusing capitalism with left/right? But you know your example is a political decision pushed by the company? The same company that sometimes pushes the opposite political message? You're assertions are lacking consistency
Is your counter argument that this "diversity" is also part of the right-wing party?
It's actually a centrist neoliberal capitalist position; the left-wing positions sees neoliberal identity politics and checklist-diversity catering to it as a tool of the capitalist class to distract from economic justice issues. (There are left-wing identity politics, but they aren't focussed on diversity, they are focussed on addressing the unique economic and social justice issues facing particular identity communities as well as the more general cross-cutting issues facing the working and under class as a whole.)
In the US neoliberal identity politics might seem like a relatively left-wing position only because the two major political parties consist of one that ranges from Right to Far Right and one that ranges from Center-Right neoliberal capitalist to the moderate Left of Democratic socialism, with the dominant faction being (clearly until the current election cycle, and by all indications still though less solidly now) firmly planted in the center-right neoliberal capitalist camp.
Fuck I didn't realize I actually like capitalism whoops.
Wikipedia:
> The term was later applied to a number of movements, ... socialism, communism, anarchism and social democracy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
This is the funniest thing I've read all week thanks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your account has also posted thoughtful comments that have contributed to good conversation. That is good.
Sort of like Bill Gates on taxing billionaires.
If they lean left, they get love from the media. But when it's really, really against their self-interest they'll resist and show their true colors.
It's just corporate hypocrisy. I hope it ends and corporations go back to being apolitical.
Unions? That's bad for business owners, so Google is against. Diversity? That increases the number of workers you can have, so Google is in favor of it. Immigration? Google's in favor, for the same reason. More taxes on tech companies? Google's against, etc.
Hint: Google still supports and enforces capitalism.
Yeesh.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/miles-taylor-fa...
Wouldn't that kind of negate your point?
Here's the person in question - they're a white house staffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miles-t-65707671/
Buzzfeed News, unlike Buzzfeed, is generally considered credible and has won multiple journalism awards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News#Awards_and_recog...
All seemed great for a while, and then suddenly one day, management found itself the target of the woke cancel culture they fostered.
> encouraged its employees to participate in 'woke' culture.
It is, however, incorrect.