And these days freedom of speech needs defenders, for when I look around, I find it under attack everywhere. Blacklisting, cancel culture, libraries being closed or defunded, classic works of literature being banned or bowdlerized or removed from classrooms, an ever growing list of “toxic” words the mere utterance of which is now forbidden no matter the context or intent, the erosion of civility in discourse. Both the Rabid Right and the Woke Left seem more intent on silencing those whose views they disagree with, rather than besting them in debate. And the consequences for those who dare to say things deemed offensive have been growing ever more dire; jobs lost, careers ended, books cancelled, “deplatforming.”
Full blog post here: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/08/15/let-his-voice-be-heard/
I work in tech and the company I work for moved from donating to Trump in 2016 to full blown diversity and inclusion, pride month, microaggression training and if you are a white male you need to shut up, a bit exaggerating ofc. Mostly you need to allow minorities and women to speak and make mistakes because mistakes are a learning experience but only if you are not a white male. You also need to walk on egg shells all the time.
I've not seen to much anti-white hiring practices but that may be do to a shortage, I hear that HR/ recruiters are having a hard time finding new engineers of late. So I've not seen any change outside of training and some pride month stuff that I've mostly ignored.
I recently got a non-anonymous survey related to stuff like diversity and all of that.
Not one question was about if you support this direction change, all of them were along the lines of are we doing enough towards diversity and inclusion and global social and environmental issues.
There was no option to say I do not agree with your DIE initiative. Not that I would have said anything as I would probably get black listed as this survey is done via HR.