Publicly wearing company-branded clothing signals to others that you're associated with said company. I'm not sure if it's ever a good idea to do so unless you're deliberately representing that company (i.e. when you're at work).
If you must hide your nakedness with logos, then it may be better to stick with ones that can be construed as relatively politically neutral fashion statements (e.g. sports teams).
> If you must hide your nakedness with logos, then it may be better to stick with ones that can be construed as relatively politically neutral fashion statements (e.g. sports teams).
You can actually get some idea of politics from what sports a person likes. I realized this might be the case when I turned on the TV a month ago and found that the program I had wanted to watch had been preempted for the 2020 MLS Cup final game.
I watched that for a while. The game was played in Columbus, Ohio, in front of a live reduce capacity audience. There were 1500 fans allowed in the stadium, and the coverage included quite a few crowd shots. I didn't see anybody without a mask. That led me to wonder if I was looking at a left-leaning crowd, since left-leaning crowds seem much better at wearing masks than right-learning crowds.
A bit of Googling then turned up this interesting article: "Which Sport Has Most Politically Liberal Fans?" [1]. According to it, MLS fans do skew significantly left.
Farthest left is WNBA, which is way left. Next is NBA, Women's tennis, European soccer, pro wrestling, then at about the same place MLS, extreme sports, and Men's tennis.
Farthest right, about as far right as Women's tennis is left, is PGA, then college football and NASCAR, then LPGA, NHL, drag racing, then pro rodeo.
Near the center includes college basketball, MLB, NFL, horse racing, monster trucks, and the Olympics.
Some of those I found surprising. I would have guessed pro wrestling to be on the right, not the left, and monster trucks to be right, not center.
I would. Despite of what people say here on HN, large part of that is false (especially because there's a lot I _know_ about Facebook for real), and despite the fact I disagree with certain company policies, Facebook is net positive for the world. And a lot of people in the real world think the same.
But people don't usually harass me, they usually pick someone younger and geekier.
I agree on threatening (which is usually about violence), but I reserve the right to berate and shame them if they’re privileged enough to be having a cushy position and great pay (and not some janitor or security guard from an outsourcing company).
There is always a ladder of morality and ethics. Facebook now stands close to the bottom rung among tech companies.
and how would you know if someone wearing facebook apparel isn't a janitor or a security guard? facebook contractors get a lot of the same swag. When I lived in SV, my roommate worked at FB food services and worked for whatever company they contracted for that.
It did occur to me that with staff working remotely, it reduces the likelihood/risk level of protests or attacks on the social media companies' offices.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 54.7 ms ] threadIf you must hide your nakedness with logos, then it may be better to stick with ones that can be construed as relatively politically neutral fashion statements (e.g. sports teams).
Then at some point it became a signal of pride or group membership (although for the habitually frugal it was a way to not buy clothes).
I never like advertising for someone else for free. I also don’t need strangers to know whom I work for. Like, why?
I am disappointed to note that sports teams association will lump people into certain political groups in some places.
Turns out separating fashion and politics is hard.
You can actually get some idea of politics from what sports a person likes. I realized this might be the case when I turned on the TV a month ago and found that the program I had wanted to watch had been preempted for the 2020 MLS Cup final game.
I watched that for a while. The game was played in Columbus, Ohio, in front of a live reduce capacity audience. There were 1500 fans allowed in the stadium, and the coverage included quite a few crowd shots. I didn't see anybody without a mask. That led me to wonder if I was looking at a left-leaning crowd, since left-leaning crowds seem much better at wearing masks than right-learning crowds.
A bit of Googling then turned up this interesting article: "Which Sport Has Most Politically Liberal Fans?" [1]. According to it, MLS fans do skew significantly left.
Farthest left is WNBA, which is way left. Next is NBA, Women's tennis, European soccer, pro wrestling, then at about the same place MLS, extreme sports, and Men's tennis.
Farthest right, about as far right as Women's tennis is left, is PGA, then college football and NASCAR, then LPGA, NHL, drag racing, then pro rodeo.
Near the center includes college basketball, MLB, NFL, horse racing, monster trucks, and the Olympics.
Some of those I found surprising. I would have guessed pro wrestling to be on the right, not the left, and monster trucks to be right, not center.
[1] https://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201303/how-politics-co...
2. Who in the heck would want to show off/broadcast that they work at Facebook in this day and age?!
But people don't usually harass me, they usually pick someone younger and geekier.
But you’re posting this from a throwaway?
“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It” –Upton Sinclair
There is always a ladder of morality and ethics. Facebook now stands close to the bottom rung among tech companies.
The kind of people that regard working for a FAANG-level company as a status-symbol.
"I never had to hide the newspaper in shame from my children."
(It's Scott McNealy, regaring the end of Sun Microsystems).