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National Journal's Rebecca Nelson reports about the Republicans lurking in the shadows of the Bay Area:
Deep in Silicon Valley, where the free market reigns and the exchange of ideas is celebrated, a subset of tech workers are hiding their true selves.
They're the tech company employees, startup founders, and CEOs who vote for and donate to Republican candidates, bucking the Bay Area's liberal supremacy. Fearing the repercussions of associating with a much-maligned minority, they keep their political views fiercely hidden.
The consequences for being outed for conservative views can be dire. In a highly public controversy last year, newly-hired Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich stepped down after critics attacked his 2008 donation to support Proposition 8, the anti-same-sex marriage law in California. Eich, who declined to comment for this story, faced an internal uprising from within the Mozilla community, as well as boycotts from other tech companies, and quit after just two weeks on the job.
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Thursday April 09 2015, @01:23PM
"...never in your life have you ever 'gone to your right-wing conservative and told them your liberal views.'"
Actually, I know a lot of people more conservative than I am. In particular, a lot of very right-wing religious conservatives, whose positions I find pretty disturbing. As an example, I was against all of the US interventions in the Middle East, whereas the many people I know were rah-rah in support of them.
If you find me a "flaming conservative" that only indicates that you are somewhere on my political left. It's a big spectrum, after all. I can't really judge your views beyond that, since you posted AC.
By the way, I disagree somewhat with your interpretation of C.S. Lewis. He finds problems with both alternatives to dealing with criminals (punishment and humanitarianism). The problem he finds with humanitarianism is the quote I used. He also puts it another way: "good men ... consistently acting upon [the tenets of humanitarianism] would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. Ultimately, he finds the humanitarian position the worse alternative, and reluctantly concludes that classic punishment remains the only alternative. These positions map very easily to generalized conservative/progressive beliefs, and that's how I used the quote.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @02:19PM
Conservative says he's not conservative because he's not a blood-thirsty religious nutjob.
Low bar.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @07:45PM
He's admitting to being a RINO. [wikipedia.org]