(which is to say most techies are indeed pretty chill, but the problem is that they don’t see the tech workers who are not chill and hateful and ignore concerns, and it takes work to realize this and act against it, being chill and a being a pampered reactionary are not exclusive. Upvote like and subscribe to have me explain my jokes more!)
it’s very strange to talk politics at work (which is why I almost always avoid it), because in tech “I’m on the left” can mean the speaker is anything from an anarchocommunist to a reactionary who uses leftist framings of ideas to mask and justify conservative goals
and then, occasionally, there’s the fucker who spends all day in his cubicle watching Infowars instead of writing code. every work-related conversation you’ve been forced to have with him has instead become a discussion of whichever racist conspiracy theory is on his mind. he “jokes” about shooting up the office, but HR won’t do anything because the other programmers have decided it’s less trouble if they cover for him. you start taking less predictable routes out of the office because you’re fairly certain he’s going to follow you to your car, since of course you’ve offended him by not nodding along with his racist conspiracy bullshit
9 out of 10 tech workers are chill, but the 10th one is a massive problem enabled by most of the other 9
Honestly I don’t know what Mister Mouse is on about
(which is to say most techies are indeed pretty chill, but the problem is that they don’t see the tech workers who are not chill and hateful and ignore concerns, and it takes work to realize this and act against it, being chill and a being a pampered reactionary are not exclusive. Upvote like and subscribe to have me explain my jokes more!)
it’s very strange to talk politics at work (which is why I almost always avoid it), because in tech “I’m on the left” can mean the speaker is anything from an anarchocommunist to a reactionary who uses leftist framings of ideas to mask and justify conservative goals
and then, occasionally, there’s the fucker who spends all day in his cubicle watching Infowars instead of writing code. every work-related conversation you’ve been forced to have with him has instead become a discussion of whichever racist conspiracy theory is on his mind. he “jokes” about shooting up the office, but HR won’t do anything because the other programmers have decided it’s less trouble if they cover for him. you start taking less predictable routes out of the office because you’re fairly certain he’s going to follow you to your car, since of course you’ve offended him by not nodding along with his racist conspiracy bullshit
9 out of 10 tech workers are chill, but the 10th one is a massive problem enabled by most of the other 9
And everyone is too fucking polite and double way the fuck down on conflict avoidance
(I have this latter experience especially frequently with USAians (at large). It is A Problem.)