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.