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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: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @03:43PM
women & darker-skinned people should also have the option of playing a character physically similar to themselves in more games just like white dudes do
I'd refer you to the study where players don't actually care about this. They don't identify *as* their character, and are indifferent to the appearance. It's a different mental pathway making agreement between player's and character's appearance irrelevant. Notice also that most games don't even have an identifiable player character, or include fantasy creatures which don't exist. Furthermore, it's up to the creators of those games what kinds of characters they want to make available. If there's a demand for something, it'll get made. If not, not. And how you go about advocating for this is important too. It's not helpful to bully devs into conforming to your specific artistic or political vision. And no one is trying to stop anyone from making whatever type of content they want to make. If you really want something bad enough that doesn't exist, make it yourself, it's never been easier.
avoid using category terms as insults (like calling someone a fag, nigger or retard)
Is a free speech issue. I avoid using such language, but if someone wants to call you a niggerfaggot the correct response is to laugh or mute their mic if you're that triggered by sounds coming from another mammal's face-hole.
"everyone should get this option and have this respect"
No one deserves or is entitled to respect by default. That would require you to be able to dictate to me how I am supposed to think, feel, and speak. You don't have those powers over me, and I don't have them over you. This is a fundamentally good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:16PM
> I'd refer you to the study where players don't actually care about this.
You would huh? that's why you haven't actually provided a citation for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:29PM
http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/11313.28005.pdf [digra.org]
Do you need a spoon also?