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New Pretty sure those hiring practices are illegal
I used to work for a company that did employment background checks. Trolling social media and asking about political opinions are both prohibited.
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Drew
New I'm not 100% sure
Is this a political organization or is this a business? And even if it is a business isn't it an offshoot of a political organization? Do they get special dispensation for those type of laws the same way the church does?

Can you be forced to hire someone who has vocalized opposition to your core mission statement? My hiring days are over but if Facebook was around when I was hiring people you can be damn sure I would scour their Facebook entries. Do I want to put someone in the middle of my crew that is a hated antagonistic being based on what they've already written and is publicly available?

I've worked with a Nazi. I got to hear concentration camp jokes. I would never hire this guy no matter how good a coder he was. I hired a Bush supporter who hated Clinton and was nothing more than a political operative that claimed to be a competent programmer, but he ended up being worthless on the programmer side. I'd never hire him again. The vast majority of right-wing people I've ever experienced were really s***** programmers. They learned something once and never learned anything again. They were cargo cult programmers. They typed s*** in without understanding how it worked.

Left-wing people have a habit of learning more and possibly changing their minds. I don't claim they are open-minded when you get to the far left, but as a general rule, the definition of conservative is someone who does not move from where they are, they keep it and protect it. That by definition is a closed minded individual.
New That heuristic probably works better in the US than in Europe
...or the rest of the world: I think I'm generally regarded as fairly conservative, politically -- for my environment, northern Europe, so probably a raging leftie pinko librul commie socialist in American terms. (Those right-wing American people you mentioned would most likely be slotted in as "somewhere between Hitler and Attila the Hun" here, and I don't mean just the literal Nazi.)

And I notice I'm getting more "conservative" in my software and coding preferences too. Now, I hope I'm still open to new stuff and to learning -- but, eurgh, most of that "new stuff" is such a... mess! "Why write a shell script with a bit of SQL in it when you can spin up a Kubernetes cluster with umpteen nodes each running umpteen services?" Though I much prefer calling this "conservatism" something else, like "coming ever more to realise the virtues of simplicity". (Or maybe even -- dare I say it -- "wisdom"?)

But yeah, adjusted for political scale / nomenclature, I concur with your theory / hypothesis. (Hope I count as "left" on your scale.)
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   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything


Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Expand Edited by CRConrad April 7, 2022, 01:00:16 PM EDT
New Scott and I have discussed this before
It boils down to "Don't hire arseholes, no matter how good they are. It's never worth it."
New Unfortunately -- or fortunately, for the arseholes -- you can hide that in a CV and an interview.
I've started, um, les'see... five new jobs in the last dozen years, seven this century.
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   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything


Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
     I love the fact they can't find an Android coder - (crazy) - (5)
         Pretty sure those hiring practices are illegal - (drook) - (4)
             I'm not 100% sure - (crazy) - (3)
                 That heuristic probably works better in the US than in Europe - (CRConrad)
                 Scott and I have discussed this before - (pwhysall) - (1)
                     Unfortunately -- or fortunately, for the arseholes -- you can hide that in a CV and an interview. - (CRConrad)

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