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That this is downvoted here is really a depressing thing. Does hackernews actually represent the average, highly educated tech professional? If so we are in for a very bad time.

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Keep politics out of the workplace. Just because you support the things listed, it doesn't mean everyone has to hear about it and succumb to your outspoken politics. Go out on the street, go home, go anywhere else and be political. At work, just shut up and work.

I wasn’t talking about thinking that taxes are a little high.

We’re talking about fundamentally bigoted and hateful beliefs. I refuse to believe that someone who holds those beliefs is able to separate those beliefs from how they treat others in the workplace.

Well, here's the deal. The employer gets to decide, since it is their company. Before I retired, there were a lot of things I didn't like about work. I thought management regularly made bad decisions, in a number of different areas. But if you are an employee, you go along with what management wants, or you move along.

True. I was trying to explain why they were getting downvotes. I don't think people here are bigoted. I think they just don't want politics at work.

That’s only half of the deal. The employer can’t take the employees for granted any more than the employees can take the job for granted. So the other half of the deal is that the employee had better be offering a worthwhile opportunity. Employee turnover is not cost-free. Yeah, it doesn’t have to be perfect. But it is a two way street.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.”

Politics does come into work with things like family leave policy, hiring, promotions, corporate giving, corporate mission, etc.

It’s inescapable. Even denying it doesn’t make it go away.

Feel free to take your own advice and shut up yourself, but it’s up to other people to decide for themselves what they will speak up about, knowing the price they may pay for, in some cases, confronting whatever they are up against.

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