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I hate how people idolize someone who has a past built on the racist exploitations of the South African system of apartheid, built a payment system that creates a class of haves and have-nots, builds a luxury vehicle for his white friends to virtue signal with, and now exploits a tragic situation involving people of color to further his drilling company.

Slate has it right, Musk should stop tweeting.

Whites can't be the victim of racism because they are the oppressors. When 1000 years of slavery and capitalist exploitation are reversed, then I'll stop enjoying white people tears.

Men cannot be victims of sexism, because see above.

Soviet states were Russian the same way that Oregonians are American or Taiwanese are Chinese. My qualm with this title is that the use of "German" is a subtle form of Nazi erasure that white nationalists cling onto.

I hate these kinds of numbers because they hide the fact that most of these jobs do not provide a living wage.

We have too many problems on Earth, so we shouldn't put anytime in expressing our imperial tendencies else where in the solar system until we can feed all of our children and stop POC from dying at the hands of police.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes. American business represent some of the absolute worst excesses of capitalist greed and have no place in somewhere as progressive and forward thinking in Europe, or even China. Pro-people laws like the GDRP and this copyright go a long way in fighting communities that the alt-right and neo Nazis fester in. Just imagine if that Nazi frog could be wiped from the internet and its posters arrested for hate speech.

I’m excited about this and it brings us closer to a world where America means less and people mean more.

Limiting the use and possession of private cars would go a long way into reducing environmental impact and income inequality.

This is a problem with capitalism. A sense of social responsibility is traded for personal satisfaction what I am assuming is some form of subtle aggression to those in non-western cultures knowing that their garbage will be sent to poorer and brown communities to live with.

There is only one answer, ban all consumable plastics. Absolutely no reason to use them when alternatives exist in every application of them.

You can't be pro peace and work for a company that is supplying your code to a government that wants to kill brown people a half world away.

I hope more engineers do the same when working with the American government and understand that something they may see as benign as Excel can be used to facilitate harm.

I am with you on this. I am a recruiter for a large tech company in Seattle and with the recent political environment, I have asked my team to take it upon themselves to ask if the person they are going to bring into our team and our community is going to help us progress as a whole. I get angered when people tell me to look at just their CV, but there is so much more there. If I know that someone on their Facebook profile liked some Alt-Right podcast or calls themselves a "Libertarian" on their Twitter profile, I know that there is a good chance that they are not going to work well in an inclusive environment. So I save us both the trouble and move past the candidate.

We have an obligation to stand up for our beliefs if we are going to see the change we need.

This isn't totally bad. China has shown that it is possible to both offer an environment that fosters startups and online communities operating to their maximum creative potential while policing for things that incite hate, forms of bigotry, and ideas that create dangerous divisions. While China isn't perfect, I wouldn't mind if America was made less influential when it comes to the Internet.

This is absolute crap. Apple cares about their pro users, they just want them using products that are much more accessible and easier to use. We just transitioned to iPad Pros in our recruiting office and some of our developers are recommending that we just push everything into Google Cloud and using the iPad to do development on.

This argument is like saying that Tesla doesn't care about petrolhead and horse carriage enthusiasts. The only people that I know who care about Mac hardware are the same people who waste powerful machines on web browsing and like to boast about how fast their computer is. Just toxic.

I like what we are doing at our company, an unofficial 1:5, where for every over represented candidate, we aggressively pursue five underrepresented candidates. It is a lot easier to train people for tech than it is to "train" someone to come from a oppressed community.