I was just in a sprint retrospective with my team. We started with one of those corporate “fun” “ice breaker” things with a question of who you’d like to spend a day with. The scrum master went on for several minutes about how she’d like to spend the day with Alexy Navalny because he’s the “only opposition to Putin”. It was only a few minutes, but it was a very concentrated dose of liberalism.
Sometimes I think ‘well it’s to be expected in STEM fields because they don’t study politics so they aren’t to know’. And then I remember all the people in politics, economics, law, social sciences, humanities, etc. They should know better. Yet somehow…