[ancorevard]

The Overton window has changed. Imagine Google saying this during peak BLM.

"But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics. This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted."

There is hope here that Google will not fade into irrelevance.

[Ajay-p]

Has it, and which Overton window are you thinking? The public tolerance for (disruptive) protest, corporate tolerance for political activism in the workplace, or.. ?

If I had to venture a guess, I would say the window has shifted towards political burnout. People may be more comfortable shutting down disruptions like these because they are burned out, and feel the disruption/protests/activism has gone too far.

[ancorevard]

Remember how much public beatings Coinbase received when they announced they were going to be a mission and merit driven company?

[lesuorac]

Like the top two comments being in support of Coinbase's mission first declaration?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24610267

[HDThoreaun]

Google fired that guy who wrote the gender manifesto so its not like this is anything new really

[SJC_Hacker]

I guess the lesson is, don't stick out your neck unless you absolutely have to.

[lp0_on_fire]

Absolutely.

Sex, Politics, and Religion should be third rails at the office, imo.

[ParetoOptimal]

For personal gain, great strategy depending on goals especially if you are not a minority.

For collective gain, horrible strategy.

[TiredOfLife]

>Imagine Google saying this during peak BLM.

If Google had employees protesting against BLM they would also had been fired.

[paxys]

> Imagine Google saying this during peak BLM.

Were there BLM protests inside Google's offices?

[throwaway420911]

There needn't be (Sundar sent twenty emails in support of it)

[timmg]

Isn't this kinda similar to what Brian Armstrong said around that time?

(And yeah, he did get dragged for it.)