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by skybrian 2498 days ago
This insistence on purity seems kind of naive and unsympathetic. I assume real history is more complicated. Do you really think there weren't blacks fighting for civil rights while working for racists?
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You can nitpick.

But I'm pretty certain most, if not all, African Americans who worked for racists were fired if they found out that they were part of the civil rights movement.

As Jordan Peterson says, clean up your room before you go fixing the world. Go up from Shoreline towards 101 and see the number of homeless people; what exactly are these enlightened Googlers doing for them other than ignoring them and driving away with their expensive Maserati's, Tesla's etc. and complaining about how expensive it is to live in the bay area. How about NIMBY laws? The list goes on and on..

> This insistence on purity seems kind of naive and unsympathetic.

Considering the Google social-justice crowd is playing the moral purity game, I would assume they would strive for purity.