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Facebook Engineer's Stunning Admission: "We Tear Down Posters Welcoming Trump Supporters"

"The scathing indictment of Facebook's liberal "mono-culture" continues:

We do this so consistently that employees are afraid to say anything when they disagree with what’s around them  politically.?  HR has told me that this is not a rare concern, and I’ve personally gotten over a hundred messages to that effect. Your colleagues are afraid because they know that they — not their ideas — will be attacked.  They know that all the talk of “openness to different perspectives” does not apply to causes of “social justice,” immigration, “diversity”, and “equality.” On this issues, you can either keep quiet or sacrifice your reputation and career.

"These are not fears without cause" Amerige writes, and continues the stunning disclosure of the company's biased culture, "Because we tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters.  We regularly propose removing Thiel from our board because he supported Trump. We’re quick to suggest firing people who turn out to be misunderstood, and even quicker to conclude our colleagues are bigots. We have made “All Lives Matter” a fireable offense.  We put Palmer Luckey through a witch hunt because he paid for anti-Hillary ads.  We write each other ad-hoc feedback in the PSC tool for having “offensive” ideas. We ask HR to investigate those who dare to criticize Islam’s human rights record for creating a “non inclusive environment.” And they called me a transphobe when I called out our corporate art for being politically radical.

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Amerige wasn't alone in his criticism of Silicon Valley's liberal bias, and as the NYT reports, since the post went up,  "more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FB’ers for Political Diversity."  The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company. ...."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-29/facebook-engineers-stunning-admission-we-tear-down-posters-welcoming-trump