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kingmudsy  ·  1611 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules

Something I haven’t seen talked about is the purported diverse values of these companies in hiring developers. Zuck breaks rules for conservatives and breaks bread with Shapiro, giving tacit approval to the idea that LGBT pride sucks as much as The Daily Caller’s corespondents think it does.

How does it feel to be a gay Facebook employee? Does that bother them as much as I feel like it should?

In any case, the juxtaposition is amusing in a sort of exhausting way





ilex  ·  1611 days ago  ·  link  ·  

At the very least, it should make you suspicious of corporate pride stuff. I mean, it's cool that "people who support LGBT folks" is an advertising demographic nowadays, but it'd be nice if that meant material changes rather than companies just trying to make a buck off people being gay.

johnnyFive  ·  1611 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The problem is that our current world really makes you pick your battles on this one. I understand why it would suck to be a gay Facebook employee, for example, but why is that your fight versus, say, labor conditions in chip manufacturing plants? The point isn't that one matters more than the other necessarily, it's that we only have so many hours in the day, and we have to just ignore some problems sometimes.

kingmudsy  ·  1611 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's fair. I think my comment was born from a place of frustration with corporate tolerance vs. corporate practice.

But there's not really any utility in me, a cishet kid that doesn't work at Facebook, complaining about it. Point well made

johnnyFive  ·  1611 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No worries, and God knows I understand the frustration. And to be clear, my point wasn't that such frustration would be wrong, I was just positing a good reason why someone may be in the situation you describe and not be bent out of shape by the whole thing.

kingmudsy  ·  1611 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I got that - sorry, I was trying to make my own comment about praxis vs. ideology, and how I'm not exactly bashing down Zuck's doors by complaining to Hubski!