Google Donated To A Senator Who Voted Against Gay Conversion Therapy Ban
Google is not a group of people who decided to associate based on their shared values.  That was always bullshit, and I&#x27;m unsure why anyone took it seriously.  If you fell for it, that&#x27;s on you.<p>Google should never have talked about &quot;pride&quot; or &quot;our shared values&quot;.  It&#x27;s very clear that they inherited that stuff from universities, where garbled nonsense about &quot;safety,&quot; &quot;this is our home,&quot; and &quot;no place for hate&quot; have become institutionalized.  Mature companies led by adults know to avoid this minefield.<p>All of that aside, the attitude evinced by this post is counterproductive.  Politics is about persuasion.  If you want to persuade (and not just preach to the converted), you have to understand the other perspective.  If all you can do is dismiss people as &quot;indefensible,&quot; you don&#x27;t understand them, and you won&#x27;t convince them.  You&#x27;ll come off as nasty, entitled, arrogant, and ideological.  You know, the kind of person who commits code to push their political agenda, spies on their coworkers, or spams some lawyer they disapprove of with emails.