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The numerator is such a small percentage because so many fear losing their jobs for speaking out. In that context, this number is quite significant. Even if you disagree with their stance, you have to admit that it takes courage to speak up in these kinds of situations.

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Actually, it's more so the other way. If you agree with her firing, you can't say anything or you are a bigot

That could be, although it is more than likely a small percentage because so many people do not agree with the cause.

Oh maybe that don't give a fuck and just want their big check?

Realistically, the majority just want this bad PR to go away and for Google to be better at preventing it from getting to this point.

Given the number of people I know who privately think that she resigned rather than got fired and similarly won't speak out (there's tons of internal threads talking about her being fired from what I can tell here), I think it actually is a small percentage.

> "think that she resigned rather than got fired"

Thats objectively one way or the other - it's not a matter of opinion.

I agree with you: When you say "do X or I quit", that's resigning and not being fired.

There's still a ton of people, including her, who think that she was fired. The amount of pushback from those folks for saying that she resigned has silenced a lot of people, from what I've seen.

Except that the “rallying” aligns with what is now the presumptive, dominant narrative.

It would be courageous to do the opposite.

What evidence do you have to support this theory?

Perhaps the people who are not speaking out in agreement with you simply don't agree with you.

It shows how deluded the far left is honestly, when they think that anyone who doesn't agree with them is afraid to speak up, and not because what the far left stands for is outrageously foolish.

No one at Google worries that signing a petition or Tweeting something is going to get them fired. No one in any kind of position of power reads or cares about these kinds of petitions, and it certainly doesn't ever reach the eyes of anyone on a promo committee.

> The numerator is such a small percentage because so many fear losing their jobs for speaking out

Or, more likely, they don't are about the whole "woke" movement and don't want anything to do with it.

You could make the exact same claim about a flat earth rally.

This argument can be made about any unpopular subject.

Americans really want full-blown Communism, but are too afraid of speaking out for fear of retaliation from jack-booted capitalist thugs.

Prove me wrong.

...and their silence about it only FURTHER proves there exists a mass conspiracy to muffle the voices for -some unpopular cause-

You, sir or madam, aced rhetoric and current events. I applaud you. Science must always be falsifiable.

Or simply most people don't care... No one ever gets fired for just "rallying"

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