From Apple To Xbox, Tech Companies Lean Left 685
Velcroman1 writes "Only a week to election time! How does tech feel about politics? If you guessed liberal, you're right: Big Tech leans left. 'They're dominated by coastal people who tend to be more liberal,' says Jim Taylor, a management consultant who writes about the business of psychology. 'Also, those in Big Tech tend to be educated in the better schools, which lean left. Big Tech skews younger and hipper [and favors] social and environmental issues. Their political values trump financial concerns at the organizational culture level and the missions of many firms, especially those that are new media.' For example, Marissa Mayer, known as 'the face of Google,' gave $30,400 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2009. In fact, of the top 10 contributions made by Google in 2009, only one — by CEO Eric Schmidt — was to the Republican National Committee. Facebook has donated almost exclusively to Democratic candidates, according to Transparency Data, including $1,000 to California Sen. Barbara Boxer a year ago, and more recently, almost $5,000 to Richard Blumenthal, who is running for senator in Connecticut."
As a hillbilly from a desert island, I have to say (Score:5, Funny)
The revelation that California and the Seattle area, where most of these companies are based, tends to lean left is a complete revelation to me. You see, I have been living under a rock on a desert island for the last hundred years and didn't realize that every state in the Union was not, in fact, like my home state of Alabama. I am shocked to learn that executives from these tech companies live in a place where each public school-day DOESN'T begin with school prayer, a mandatory salute to the Confederate flag, shooting practice, and a discussion of why America would elect a satan-worshiping negro marxist as President. I had always assumed, on my desert island, that America was a homogenous place, and that no region had its own unique political leanings. Now, I know that there are actually areas in the U.S. where it's not okay to beat down anyone publicly admitting to supporting fag rights--where even *calling* someone a fag is considered somewhat offensive (even if they are). I guess I can understand these executives' leftist points of view, considering that they come from a place where it's considered impolite to burn down the houses of non-Christians. Thank you for enlightening me.
Re:More obvious stories (Score:5, Funny)
Somewhere in America right now there are two college students. One is trying to recruit for the Young Republicans in the art department. The other is trying to recruit for the Young Democrats in the business school. both are wondering why their results have so far been disappointing.
Re:As a hillbilly from a desert island, I have to (Score:3, Funny)
It was both.
Re:Retest (Score:3, Funny)
But choosing R means the car stays in the ditch, while the Ds will at least try to get the car out of the ditch.
Re:Unbelievable (Score:3, Funny)
Only if they received a liberal education.
A proper education would inform them that he's actually a communist muslim who was born in Nigeria, and wants to take over the world.
Re:Retest (Score:5, Funny)
it can vary in as many directions as there are different political parties (in the US, that's quite a lot.)
Ah yes, the USA. Where the number of thriving political parties is as vast as the number of oceans it touches, and where political philosophies are as varied as the mastodons that roam its plains.
Re:More obvious stories (Score:1, Funny)
If you're far left, center will appear to be the far right. If you're far right, center will appear to the far left. It's all a matter of relativity and few people will acknowledge that they, themselves, are the ones holding the extreme views.
A couple hundred years ago, America decided they wanted to go their own route rather than follow the European model... After centuries of colonial empirism, Europeans are still egotistical enough to assume the entire world should follow and be judged by their model. Guess what? Europe fucked up the entire world long before a single ship sailed under the US flag. Quit assuming that your values are the correct alignment of values for anyone but yourself since most of the world has already rejected your empires of old.
Re:Reality Has a Well Known Liberal Bias (Score:4, Funny)
Ah, Doc Ruby. So predictably chiming in with a post that unselfconciously promotes every liberal stereotype: cocooned, arrogant, angry, insulting, intolerant, etc.
It's a good thing everyone knows liberals are so inherently good. Otherwise readers might think you're a grade-A jerk.
- A fan
Re:Reality Has a Well Known Liberal Bias (Score:4, Funny)
No, I'm not condescending. You Republicans are just stupid. So "correct" looks "condescending" to you.
You are a parody of yourself.