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Are you really saying that it's harder to be a techie than LGBT in San Francisco?
by ianmobbs 6y ago
Are you really saying that it's harder to be a techie than LGBT in San Francisco?
- uoaei 6y agoVictimization narratives are intoxicating. A lack of diversity in experiences will lead some down narrow paths.
- philwelch 6y agoIn principle I agree with you--this is one of the biggest pathologies of our time.
- philwelch 6y agoI can't speak to San Francisco, but in Seattle at least, I never saw any flyers or graffiti telling LGBT people they were unwelcome and should leave town, nor did I ever encounter political discourse that LGBT people were somehow ruining the city, or scapegoating the LGBT community for local issues. So in my personal experience as an LGBT software engineer, I wouldn't be surprised if San Francisco was the same way.
- season2episode3 6y agoI bike by "Go Home Tech Bro" stickers on stop signs pretty frequently in Seattle
- lazyasciiart 6y agoMe too, and in 2014 someone tried to burn down Neighbors with hundreds of people inside, and before the pandemic gay couples reported being harassed and assaulted for walking down the street in Capitol Hill, and I heard more than one guy entering different bars (again, in Capitol Hill) cautiously check that this bar didn't have GAY PEOPLE, right? So I think the idea that tech people are less welcome than gay people is a horrendously uninformed one.
- manfredo 6y agoWhen I lived in SF it was socially acceptable to openly degrade tech workers. Nancy Pelosi's daughter went on TV and called SF tech workers "vermin" and "invaders" and described the presence of tech works as an "infestation". Open hostility and dehumanization is condoned. In no way did I feel oppressed, but it did come off as tone deaf the way people on one breath say stuff like that and in the next complain about how tech workers weren't invested in the community.
- medium_burrito 6y agoYeah it's so tough being a tech worker. I feel almost as oppressed as the billionaires.