Salesforce bans retailers whom sell certain guns
I've been a on-again-off-again Salesforce Developer and advocate for 10-years. In my personal and professional life I always try to treat people with dignity and respect and expect my colleagues to do the same. I do tend to keep my conservative, libertarian opinions to myself, because working in technology and living in San Francisco, I have had colleagues belittle, taunt, and at times act openly hostile toward me for being unapologetically libertarian/classically liberal. Still, as a gun owner, I can't help but wonder if I am no longer welcome in the Salesforce developer community? I find this ironic for an company/community that prides itself on diversity and inclusion... To be clear, Salesforce can do what it wants with it's product and money. I'm just curious if I should remove pictures of myself participating in shooting sports from social media for fear I will be dis-invited from speaking events/not extended invitations? https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18645722/salesforce-ban-retail-customers-selling-semi-automatic-guns-rifles
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Since when is conservatism considered diversity? Salesforce don’t even know your affiliation. Also being opposed to terrorism doesn’t mean you are not inclusive of muslims. Its mutually exclusive things. Democrats owns guns too.
This kind of thing is so asinine. It’s never a good idea to divide your customer base, especially along the lines of some enumerated protected constitutional right that half of the country is extremely passionate about. Refusing services to a whole class of people is just so distasteful and bigoted, regardless the reason. I also keep my libertarian opinions to myself, and wish businesses would do the same with theirs.
When a company has too much power it can treat its customers like shit unfortunately
Marc sucks. He needs to stop selling to any country with a 2A if be really wants to be woke
Good move!
This is how you get {your favorite ideolog -ical} authoritarianism. Where's antitrust? Practically asleep this millennium. When you get monopolies and cartels, consumers get a big 'screw you'.
nobody at salesforce cares if you own a gun or are politically conservative, seriously
So your saying Benioff doesn't care if I own an AR-15? Because that's not what his tweeted and he is no stranger to donating large sums of money to gun control groups. Some of these groups advocate for laws that would require me to hand over this (ar-15) style of gun or go to jail. Like, you have 30 days. Turn it in, or we come with our guns, point them at you and your family and put you in jail type laws.
But we do care if your kid shows up at school with your gun.
Gun grabbers gonna grab.
meanwhile we keep selling to the US government, one of the most gun happy groups around
You miss the point. Defence and police need guns and semi automatic rifles. Civilians don't need to fire 60 rounds a minute.
I have class C license for driving car alone. Cannot drive truck, for the reason that I need to show different set of skills for driving truck than I need for driving car, otherwise people could get run over. Apply same thinking to gun.
Internally Salesforce is updating its acceptable terms of use so it can weaponize its values against those it disagrees with, even if that affects loyal and law abiding customers. We’re on track to join Facebook, Twitter, Azure, etc. in the club of companies squashing all we dislike or disagree with. The country’s polarization will get worse, and I’m saddened very much by this. Also being classically liberal, I’m torn about what to do given this development. I’d like civil disagreements to stay within the first amendment arena and legal system, but that’s not how things are trending. Even though I’ve worked very hard for many years for Salesforce, I’d like to take my talents and go work for “the other side” but AFAICT I can’t tell that there is another side in the tech oligarchy we have now.
Good points. And honestly this kind hegemony of opinion has been highlighted by the closeted conservatives in tech. As long as I can remember. Luckily for us I guess saying "I'm libertarian" tends to disarm people when they heard your conservative. Calling yourself a "Republican" is like a trigger... But "I'm a libertarian" is more like "oh ok, your just one of those crazy people I can ignore you... your values are so out there they'll never affect me"
Mostly because they don’t know the difference, only that it doesn’t sound like the words republican or conservative so they don’t have to push the nuclear rant button.
Their homeless pledge is doing wonders as well.
Is it? I actually can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not
Sarcasm of the utmost proportions, yes.