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It's one thing to be against gay marriage. It's quite another to spend one's own money on outlawing it.
Next year I decide I like my neighbor, who's running for governor in the American Nazi party. I write him a check for $500.
So now I can't work in the tech industry? Really? And this makes sense to folks?
So you're saying thinking is okay, but acting is not. So is there some list of things I can and can't do and expect to have a job? Or is it just made up off-the-cuff by anybody with an internet search and an axe to grind?
Do you realize how chilling this is? We're going to raise an entire generation of tech leadership who are acutely tuned never to do anything publicly that might indicate they have an opinion -- and are smart enough to hold all their real feelings inside, no matter how terrible. It's bad for those folks, it's bad for the industry, and it's bad for the rest of us. It's just bad all the way around.
We all have to vote the same way, give money to the same causes, say the same things -- or face collective group punishment. And this seems sane?
Start poking around to find whatever job I have and then try to get me fired? Really? That counts as "discouragement" in your book?
You realize, of course, that there are some folks with really nasty opinions out there, folks who would do all the things you mention. Folks who would bring back slavery. And so on.
I must have missed the big public outrage over these folks where we try to get them fired and otherwise interfere with their personal and work lives because of their political opinions. I also missed the part where this became acceptable behavior.
