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I miss the 90's Silicon Valley. Laser focused on innovation and mostly liberatarian. I would kill to go back and rewind time.

Currently, this place feels totalitarian on a cultural level. Can't express diverging views. Can't think from the fundamentals and seek truth. Can't criticize the person next to you. The game everyone seems to be playing is who is more woke than the person next to them. This whole thing escalates with no checks and balances. A total relentless wokefest. I am fine with talking about social issues but it is impossible with these people. Activism, it's not as President Obama said just this year.

This is on the front page of NYT right now. That's how bad it has gotten: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric...

I will be voting for anything but the current situation.

Can’t express diverging views about the shape of Earth or how vaccines cause authism.

What you call “woke” is just a lowered tolerance to fringe theories in ethics, same way many people don’t tolerate fringe theories about cosmology or medicine.

Wokeness is a religion. As such that is fine but why pretend otherwise.

Not a religion, but rather an ideology. It's usually spelled humanism, though.

One of the problems of woke ideology is the ostensible moral superiority they display over others to push their agenda. Arrogant, intolerable and incorrigible. In their mind, they are righteous and everyone that is not onboard is evil. Sounds familiar?

I'm pretty sure antivaxxers are saying the same about educated folks.

I think the antivaxxers are largely a group of people that have not looked at the data but instead following Twitter and FB, they're skeptical because everyone around them at the dinner table and office table is. But, there is a whole group of provaxxers that just don't want to give into the Government overreach which many nations have clinched on during this pandemic. This group gets into the crossfire - they have a point.

This is the problem. Not all diverging opinions are insane anti science bs you’re talking about.

I reject both wokeness and trumpism, Qanon, etc. There is a giant turf in the middle that you fail to acknowledge.

Of course not all diverging opinions are fringe. But those that “wokeness” is against are.

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