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San Francisco -- and the tech industry -- are beaming with Pride this weekend.
The United States Supreme Court on Friday ruled same-sex marriage a constitutional right, one day before San Francisco begins its famous Pride festivities, one of the largest celebrations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender -- aka LGBT -- culture in the country. The tech industry is practically euphoric, especially after high-profile executives this year, from Apple CEO Tim Cook to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, publicly advocated advancing gay rights. But that advancement works both ways, said Gary Virginia, board president of SF Pride, which organizes the celebration. Speaking out is not just a personal decision for tech execs; it makes good business sense too, he said.
"They attract a younger population for their workforce, and it's been proven that social attitudes are changing," said Virginia. "So it behooves them to have progressive policies to attract LGBT employees. I think they see the benefit of it."
The celebration caps off a landmark year for the gay rights movement. In September, Apple's Cook wrote an essay saying he's gay, making him the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company. A month later, he allowed for his name to be attached to an LGBT anti-discrimination bill in his home state of Alabama. In March, Benioff said he had cancelled all Salesforce events in Indiana after its governor signed a law that would allow businesses to refuse service to anyone in the LGBT community on religious grounds. Less than a week later, dozens of executives from Airbnb, Ebay, Jawbone, Lyft, PayPal, Twitter and other companies signed a joint statement in The Washington Post against the religious freedom laws either passed or being considered in several states.
The tech industry is a relatively recent ally. LGBT leaders point out it's taken decades to achieve Friday's Supreme Court decision. New York City, for example, is commemorating the anniversary of the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn, which many consider the jump start of the movement. The 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk, an openly gay San Francisco board supervisor, galvanized the national LGBT community.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @07:51PM
Nah, if I was asked to draw Mohammed (yeah that one) in a wheelchair and I refused for religious reasons, the SJWs would burn my store to the ground and destroy me and my family, because obviously the only reason I'd turn down a handicapped customer is because I hate them, and hate is now a capital crime according to SJWs.
Jesus christ can you not hear the over-the-top crazy in your words? If I didn't know you from your posting history I'd think you were writing deliberate parody.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @12:16AM
"Everything is the fault of SJWs!" ... Sounds strangely familiar... "Everything is the fault of the Jews!", "Everything is the fault of the niggers!", "Everything is the fault of gypsies!", "Everything is the fault of Muslims!". Oh! Now I recognize it, its just standard bigotry and hate-propaganda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @12:39PM
"Everything is the fault of SJWs!"
No, not everything, except all of the Politically Correct thought policing is their fault. That's where the PC term even comes from, so it is the fault of SJWs.
The recent batch of Internet censorship that's coming down the pike is being paraded by SJWs as a blow against "Hate Speech" and "Online Harrassment" (meanwhile schoolgirls say worse things about each other IRL, but we feel no need to persecute school children for "hate crimes"...yet). Believe it or not when SJWs have intercourse with society and/or its politics, they really do cause harm. As one example, look at how SJWs removed due process in rape accusations. [human-stupidity.com] And turned campuses into toxic places for men with "Teach men not to rape" and various forms of ridiculous campus rape hysteria -- As if men didn't get raped (why not teach women not to rape?); As if without said classes male college students would be raping people by their very nature (ignoring that rapists make up a small percentage of society and they already know it's wrong to rape but do so anyway). Now it's becoming safer for men not to go to such colleges because even if they are SJWs themselves all it takes is one vindictive ex to anonymously report them and they'll not be able to prove their innocence since the event never happened to have evidence of (guilty until proven innocent really is the norm now thanks to policy stemming from the "Dear Colleagues" letter, look that up).
Here's the very sane thought that you don't seem to grasp: If the SJWs hadn't pushed for the ability to ruin lives over "hate speech" then people wouldn't be afraid of incurring wrath for the most minor misstep. Personally, the moment anyone brings up their LGBTQIAPPOF status I disassociate from them unless they're a member of my family or a trusted friend. I do this because I've been falsely accused of being a bigot for having an ordinary disagreement the same as I typically have with other friends, family, etc. The asshole then spread rumors of this "hate crime" and tried to have me fired though the disagreement was not at work and of a political nature, not out of hate: I don't support state recognized marriages, straight or homosexual; And I think gay marriage is sexist since it ignores bisexuality -- Shouldn't bisexuals be able to marry both a man and woman? I was ostracized from several groups of friends thanks to this SJW -- Their LGBTQIAPPOF status was irrelevant, but the social and legal frameworks which allow SJWs to destroy the lives of others is relevant. I've been burned and learned my lesson: Better safe than sorry. Any SJW vibes and I'm out.
Note the double standard in that there is no SJW trumpeting "hate crime" every time a gay says something like "fuck off breeder" to a straight person, nor when someone says "Kill the white devils" to whites or advocates for the genocide of males "#killallmen" [youtube.com]. So, it really is safer to avoid the situations altogether. Ironcially, it's safer than ever to hanging out with straight white men since SJWs hate them and won't try to ruin your life if you offend a straight white man. In the name of destroying a "boys club" the SJW has made that the most desirable club to have. Some of my friends and family are queer, and I love them. They're not SJWs, so it's safe to be around them, but when it comes to strangers I would rather walk out the door if they don a "minority status victim card" and begin talking about SocJus Politically Correct thought police. [youtube.com] I'll avoid those people for the same reason I helped my son select a different college that wasn't an SJW indoctrination camp [thefire.org] and had a policy of involving the police instead of destroying lives via anonymous rape accusation and Inquisitorial Star Chamber where you don't get to confront your accuser and actual rapists get away with a slap on the wrist. There have been cases where the police later exonerated people accused of campus rape and yet the colleges upheld the student's expulsion and defacto blacklisting by leaving "rapist" in their records. Wouldn't you say it's sane to avoid such situations? If so, then it's also sane to avoid other situations that are equally as dangerous.
It's not my fault that SJWs have fucked up our culture and legal system with their Political Correctness -- Their divisionist ideology is to blame for my aversion to random LGBTQIAPPOF people. 9/10 times a person who throws their sexuality or minority status in my face turns out to be one of the useful idiots parroting this destructive ideology, so I've learned to distance myself as the divisionists who created the ideology would have us do. There is real bigoted hate being normalized in this society, but it's from SJWs against anyone they don't like. If you can't see that, you either haven't looked or must be blind. You have no excuse not to see now since I've provided links, one that goes to Foundation for Individual Rights in Education [thefire.org], which has plenty of examples of SJWs skewering people who don't obey their speech laws on campus -- That's right, simply misspeak or have words taken out of context by SJWs and you may need the legal services like FIRE provides. So, who's insane? The cautious individual insulating themselves from the poisonous culture surrounding them, or the person like you maintaining bigoted ignorance of real problems created by the toxic social justice warrior ideology?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @01:34PM
You mad, bro?