Originally described in 2014 as: "typified by libertarian political beliefs, Dawkins- style atheism, vague annoyance that the question of gay rights even comes up, eating paleo, drinking Soylent, calling in rides on Uber, reading lots of blogs, calling American football “sportsball”, getting conspicuously upset about the War on Drugs and the NSA, and listening to filk – but for our current purposes this is a distraction and they can safely be considered part of the Blue Tribe most of the time"
But since then the tech world went off the deep end into anti-wokeness and the left has (rightfully imo) come to resent tech and tech companies so they've moved to be on the side of the "red tribe"
Most of the 'gray tribe' stuff I remember was them being performatively over-upset with anyone left of Republicans, and mysteriously quiet about Republicans. A whole lot of 'both sides are the same' on drugs and war.
So basically, they were Republican kids from Republican families too embarressed to admit that to themselves or others.
For gay rights, see Log Cabin Republicans, out and proud gay Republicans, so basic acceptance of gay people having a right to exist doesn't make you automatically Blue.
The funny thing is, the red tribe hates them anyway. Trump isn't a tech guy, he's a politically untreatable NPD[1] case, and he only values sycophants that will stay consistently loyal to him. Big Tech banning Trump off social media[0] means that, whether they wanted to or not, they took the blue tribe's side.
And of course, blue tribe hates them, too. Grey tribe's social progressiveness is mostly an accident. They're perfectly fine selling weapons to war criminals just as much as they're fine selling lattes at a gay pride parade. And the shit they did to build up and then tear down red tribe's electoral chances could easily just be applied to blue tribe this time around.
[0] After four years of deliberately exempting him from their own moderation rules, of course
> Grey tribe's social progressiveness is mostly an accident
It’s not an accident. It’s rooted in the counter culture moment that was that basis for Silicon Valley moving beyond weapons manufacturing and embracing the internet.
Counter-culture was a blue tribe thing. The grey tribe latched onto it and redirected it away from their own economic interests, which paved the way for neoliberalism and deindustrialization.
Originally described in 2014 as: "typified by libertarian political beliefs, Dawkins- style atheism, vague annoyance that the question of gay rights even comes up, eating paleo, drinking Soylent, calling in rides on Uber, reading lots of blogs, calling American football “sportsball”, getting conspicuously upset about the War on Drugs and the NSA, and listening to filk – but for our current purposes this is a distraction and they can safely be considered part of the Blue Tribe most of the time"
But since then the tech world went off the deep end into anti-wokeness and the left has (rightfully imo) come to resent tech and tech companies so they've moved to be on the side of the "red tribe"