Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans to Renew ICE Contract
Now, I actually find this a reasonable way to phrase their position:<p>&gt; &quot;We respect the fact that for those of us in the United States, we live in a democratic republic in which the public elects our officials and they decide, pursuant to the rule of law, the policies the government will pursue.&quot;<p>(They do go on to say they disapprove, in the interests of quoting fairly)<p>But to clarify, as a Brit, I feel this way about our own government and Brexit. I disagree with brexit. I disagree with many of our government&#x27;s actions.<p>But.<p>They were voted in. People voted for Boris, they voted for Trump. Even now, the Conservative party is <i>15 points ahead</i> in some polls.<p>A small, unlikable part of me says we shall &quot;reap what we sow&quot;, but at some point, I&#x27;m going to have to reconcile the fact that a large segment of my fellow citizens <i>like</i> what they&#x27;re sowing.<p>I don&#x27;t really have a point to this. It&#x27;s a shame that as a democracy we vote in individuals who pursue policies that some of us personally find reprehensible. However, I am getting a unique and unasked-for insight into how it must have felt for those individuals with non-PC viewpoints for all those years.<p>I guess that might be the point: this is the world we live in. Some people find this OK, even preferable. We can&#x27;t pretend otherwise any more. And that&#x27;s rather sobering.