The bar for the tech work activists to not consider a company "evil" is impossible high. It seems like any attempt to actually operate like a business (and actually.. you know.. make money?) is met with open hostility. I really don't condone furthering the insistence that these mega-corps pretend to be something that they're not.
That being said, the people with the megaphones that constantly send emails about politics that somehow jump through five hoops to ensure every issue is directly tied to race should put their actions where their mouth is. If 1000 people give an ultimatum that they'll quit if something isn't done, maybe something will actually be done. If not, then the biggest propagators of political distractions are gone. And then those of us that are confused how politics (of a certain slant) became actively encouraged in the workplace can stop aggressively adding email filters for the latest cause of the week.
Each of us has to decide individually where to draw the line. The important thing is to keep your actions aligned with those words, and to not warp your moral system to accommodate a cushy job.
Personally I would never work for Facebook, but I might work for Microsoft (at least, on ethical grounds). That's based in my belief that Facebook causes more harm to the world than good, and that Microsoft (probably) doesn't. At least not to an egregious level.
If someone presented me a genuine moral argument for why they still believe Facebook isn't a net negative for the world, as their reason for continuing to work there, I could respect that. If someone said they're continuing to work there just because they don't care or don't like to think about it, I cannot respect that.
That being said, the people with the megaphones that constantly send emails about politics that somehow jump through five hoops to ensure every issue is directly tied to race should put their actions where their mouth is. If 1000 people give an ultimatum that they'll quit if something isn't done, maybe something will actually be done. If not, then the biggest propagators of political distractions are gone. And then those of us that are confused how politics (of a certain slant) became actively encouraged in the workplace can stop aggressively adding email filters for the latest cause of the week.