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If you’re already keeping your social media protected/private, that seems like a pretty good sign that you’re not a political troublemaker or activist.

How do you figure that? I keep most of my social media stuff private but I would happily participate in, for instance, a unionization campaign and I will vocally support the sorts of folks that people like Damore seek to condemn.



Did Damore condemn people or did he just disagree with ideas?


I guess it depends on your definition of activist. When I hear that, I think of someone like prominent tech twitter personalities who are employed at places like google/github and like to get into flame wars on twitter and so on. I assumed that’s what the person was talking about as well.

I think there are plenty of people who might sign onto a union election or unionization at work who aren’t social media bomb throwers. I’d consider it myself if it came up and were convinced it would be good for me as an employee. I don’t think an employer looking through public social feeds would be very effective in screening that out, especially in technology where the majority of employees are openly liberal and Democrat in my experience.


Damore didn't condemn anyone, that's just a smear attack.


True, he's just biologically incapable of understanding anything beyond his immediate situation.




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