Some founders, venture capitalists, and angel investors are now refusing to speak with legacy-media journalists who infuse their reporting with a social-justice slant. “What’s the point [of talking to reporters]?” a developer said. “They hate us, and we think they know nothing about the way the world works outside their woke, east-coast bubble.”
It should not be surprising that the techs are taking a dislike to wokeness internally. These companies all have very few blacks in software development. Under woke "logic", the techs are all thoroughly racist. They would destroy themselves if they internalized wokeness.
But don't hold your breath waiting for an end to censorship at the social media companies, Amazon etc. It would be typical disgusting liberal hypocrisy to be blocking wokeness internally, while foisting it on the culture.
If there are techs who are thoroughly woke internally, I expect they'll disappear eventually. Meanwhile we are hearing of a lot of woke insanity at non-tech companies (insurance, airlines, Disney). Perhaps they will eventually destroy themselves.
For these CEOs, the problem isn’t just the media and external critics: The wokeness is coming from inside the building. At dinner parties, they ask each other the same question: How do we keep woke activists off the payroll? “It’s the first thing they want to talk about these days,” a vice president at a venture-capital shop told me. “It’s the crazy, activist, political stuff. I’ve not met a founder who doesn’t think it’s a problem. There’s a state of what the f**k?”
"How do we keep woke activists off the payroll?" This is a strange question. Do they mean somebody is trying to force them to put them on the payroll? Who is that and how do they do it?
Meanwhile, although some may be Republicans, I think most of these idiots are committed Democrats.
BTW, I own stock in Snowflake. It's taking the database software world by storm.