How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday April 9, 2016 @11:43AM from the second-acts dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In December 2013 San Francisco's tension with its surging tech class reached a breaking point. Protesters swarmed Google buses. They stood in front of Twitter carrying a coffin labeled "Affordable Housing." Google glassholes were on the rise. In the midst of this, the CEO and founder of AngelHack posted a rant about the homeless. "In downtown SF the degenerates gather like hyenas, spit, urinate, taunt you, sell drugs, get rowdy, they act like they own the center of the city," Greg Gopman wrote. He thought he was becoming a thought leader. Instead, the entire city turned against him. Reviled and suddenly unemployable, Gopman spent a quixotic year spinning up businesses to solve homelessness. His journey is weirdly emblematic of today's startup-fueled San Francisco.

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Liberals.. by Mass+Overkiller · 2016-04-09 12:04 · Score: 0, Redundant

He posted an opinion that was not liberal. Liberals are very tolerant as long as you ascribe to their group think.
Re: Screw San Fran by Applehu+Akbar · 2016-04-10 01:04 · Score: 1, Redundant

I'd rather have rich, intelligent, productive overlords than stupid, diseased, ignorant, lazy super predators getting my money.
Mod this one up!