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Comment by kenneth | Hacker News Reader

I am personally thrilled to see a company stand up to cancel culture and political employee activism. The ridiculous non-work related distractions from employee on various political crusades we've been seeing at many companies like Google are one of the things ruining Silicon Valley. It's nice to see Elon not allowing it at his companies, and Coinbase in being another standout against this silliness.

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I think we're on the tail end of Extreme activism working within organizations. Everyone talks about the pendulum swinging and I think with economic downturns, people will find out really quickly how fast it can swing back.

I think what is going to happen is you are going to be left behind because you are a bigot.

How is this cancel culture?

“SpaceX must swiftly and explicitly separate itself from Elon’s personal brand,” sounds a bit like cancel Elon.

Usually canceling means getting someone fired, guess it's all projection from these people.

Sounds like they'd like him fired.

Having seen the full text of the letter it has a bit "But for all our technical achievements, SpaceX fails to apply these principles to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion with equal priority across the company, resulting in a workplace culture that remains firmly rooted in the status quo." Which sounds quite cancel culture.

(letter https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/read-spacex...)

> cancel culture and political employee activism

Yeah let's normalize racism! Yeah cool!

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