Not necessarily. I think you may have overlooked how detached from understanding the country as a whole people who live in liberal bubbles can be. In many places where corporate offices are like New York, or Los Angeles, the upper class people that the corporate managers work and socialize with may be 90% Democrat liberals. They accept whatever the latest liberal fad is and just play along, because that's what their friends expect, that's what the other moms at the private school expect, and thinking differently will get you ostracized at the country club.
The same is true with many college faculty and administrators. The concept that anybody doesn't agree with their politics, except for those "deplorables" is just unthinkable to them.
In that kind of bubble blunders get baked like cookies in an oven at Pepperidge Farm.
Well, I would like you to know that in my mind instead of this post I have actually left you a very long and cleverly written counter argument rather than admitting that you are correct.
Liberals absolutely do things on a regular basis to be part of the herd and make themselves feel superior without regard to how ridiculous or harmful it may be. I can not dispute this. Trying to make a positive difference in a very liberal industry for almost 20 years was always two steps forward, a bullet in each foot.
There is a company I occasionally interact with near Boston that has no idea how they look to the rest of the world and claim that a number of political things they are forcing on its consumers are hate when they shouldnt be involved in politics at all. They are not big, new, or innovative enough to attract the interest of big investors though their product is dependent on somebody big enough in another industry to have much control there and that company is super woke so the Boston company could be towing the line for its protection.
...claim that a number of political things they are forcing on its consumers are hate...
Sorry, consider that a bonus. Two good thoughts merged into one meaningless sentence.