Tech workers following the lead of Peter Thiel, a President Donald Trump-supporting venture capitalist and bolting Silicon Valley for Los Angeles. Not that LA is all that much better. But pushback is good and it’s happening.
Tech Workers Are Relocating to Los Angeles Because Silicon Valley Is Too Liberal
Western Journalism, February 19, 2018:
A number of workers in Silicon Valley are planning to leave the tech hub due to a discomfort stemming from a uniform way of thinking in the industry and region, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Story continues below advertisementThe workers already are or plan on indirectly following the lead of Peter Thiel, a President Donald Trump-supporting venture capitalist.
The billionaire entrepreneur recently announced he is leaving Silicon Valley for the slightly less liberal Los Angeles area to escape an allegedly pervasive discrimination against conservatives and some libertarians.
Citing a number of influential investors, and a couple of tech workers and startup entrepreneurs, the WSJ reports Thiel’s geographic “defection” is emblematic of an apparently larger trend.
“I think the politics of San Francisco have gotten a little bit crazy,” Tom McInerney, an angel investor who now resides in Los Angeles, told The Wall Street Journal. “The Trump election was super polarizing and it definitely illustrated–and Peter (Thiel) said this–how out of touch Silicon Valley was.”
A large majority of conservatives said they are in some way uneasy in the area due to their political and personal beliefs, according to a study published earlier in the month by the Lincoln Network. Roughly 89 percent and 74 percent of people who identified as “very conservative” or “conservative,” respectively, said they are hesitant of being themselves while working in Silicon Valley. Additionally, more than two-thirds of libertarians, which were the largest portion of respondents in the survey, said the same.
Only 30 percent and 36 percent of Silicon Valley employees who identify as “very liberal” or “liberal” are reluctant to be their true selves, according to the study.
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… too liberal, like google’s daughter filthy sharia tube htttps://quran.com/5/48
Google & Feminists is an oxymoron -> the REAL feminists (take off their hijab) are in tyranny Iran
1:30 ‘… wife beating’ … to coward wife beater allah 40/2 -> https://quran.com/4/34
https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/965648109475950596
Left/Liberals/feminists can celebrate their wonderful cultural diversity now at local muslim run restaurants https://tinyurl.com/yc87nbvr
They deserve the fecal drink. LOL !
I get sense oared by google all the time….I notice it the most when I talk about the femm innits…Especially the fugly ones. With Margenter coloured hear. Having a gut a 40 year heavy beer drinker would amass..Thunder thies, tite tea shirts, and carry signs that say ‘My miaower is not for grabbin”… Curious to see if a human or an Al Gore rhythm, does the sense oaring… ( in udder werds, will this posting stay up or be scrapped)
Understand that. YouTube is now being called “DooDooTube” because of their censoring.
liberals have become luddites of the information age. The liberal mindset is introspective, ignorant, closed and severely bigoted. The only good thing about it, is that it will self destruct as it becomes denser with successive layers of smug ignorance.
Living under the muslum boot heel might burst their bubble — not that I care.
That, or The Orwellian Leftists win and bring on “1984”.
Let’s hope you are right.
Go douche, you are stinking up the place.
OT
Illegal alien rapes 7 year old girl for 6 months.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/02/19/illegal-immigrant-accused-molesting-raping-7-year-old-girl-mother/
Like Los Angeles is any better… The entire IT industry seems to be a circle jerk of moral decrepitude. Have fun in L.A. watch out for the 80,000 gang bangers or not.
It’s not gonna change anything. Not when google & other webhosts like GoDaddy, bluehost & so on, can decide unilaterally, that your website’s too controversial (re: conservative), and take your site down without any kind of appeal, like they did last year.
They need to LEAVE California!
Why drag it out? LA is not much better.
No, I’d rather they stay in CA than move and spew their bass ackwards ideals elsewhere.
That is for certain. In the seventies, and early eighties, Austin, Texas, was a cowboy recording town, with a slew of frat boys, driving BMWs tossed in for good measure. Even the doctors and lawyers wore “c’boy” (that’s “cowboy” without the “ow”) boots. By 2000 it had emerged as a major leftist capitol. It was the silicon valley types .. moved for the change, but changed it into what they had moved from.
They’re just NOW getting sick of each other? We’ve been sick of them for a long time, at least they’re staying in CA.
The Rocky Mountains are on the Western side of the continent, causing the country to tilt, and all the nuts rolled to California.
That is as far west they can go, unless they enjoy the swim.
And as far left as well.
No wonder they call it Silly-cone Valley.
‘… this woman (in tyranny Iran) is BRAVE. You (sharia tube & Co.) are an embarrassment.’ https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/950301004725149696
LA? Shirley you jest! Get the HELL out of Califonication!!
Please don’t come to Oregon. Or Idaho.
Well, they haven’t left California yet, so they are still under the communist boot – just at a different location.
There may be a huge potential for success here. According to James Damore, there were many people at Google who shared his views but were afraid to speak out. These people remain very uncomfortable in the “progressive” environment at Google. Certainly if Google is trying to have 50% women software engineers, it will fail badly in the end because there just aren’t that many competent female coders around to fill the quota. Only 20% of computer science graduates are women. Google will be scrapping the bottom of the barrel to find enough women to fill the quota, and they are not going to produce software that is worth anything. Companies demonstrating they are open to political diversity as opposed to biological diversity may attract some excellent candidates away from Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.
This is a so what…sorry…but Google/Youtube, FB, Twitter, etc will continue to censor/ban video’s or postings. And moving to LA will not solve it. Lived their, been there, done that. That’s why I left CA in 1983 and hasn’t looked back or regretted it.
How is that an improvement? Seems that LA is just as liberal.
Or because real estate is somewhat cheaper?
Like NY, SV in a echo chamber of dogmatic know it all’s that harbor visceral, profound hatred / phobia / sheer arrogance, toward anything that has even a trace of conservatism / traditionalism in them and doesn’t PERFECTLY align with their utopian / over the “progressive” rainbow, world view
Conservative / independent tech people, should move to Texas and give the deranged SV liberals a run for their money
San FranSicko.
‘Google (YouTube) has given us a warning(!!) for the video. If we (don’t) stop such a video, they want to close our channel. If you have contact with other activists who suffer the same censorship, please contact us. If we do, we will file a lawsuit against it and try to make it public.
Thank you
Barino’ (ex-Muslim, now Coptic Christ) http://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=pt-BR&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.pi-news.net/2018/02/al-hayat-tv-zeugnisse-frueher-christen-zur-islamischen-invasion-teil-1/