I worked in a UK office of a multinational tech company that's headquartered in the US, and observed that the "US left" culture that the company was immersed in was quite different to what I would consider to be left-wing in the UK.
For example, we would have diversity and inclusion trainings that went into great detail about racism categories in the US that don't really apply here in the UK, and topics like gender identity that I understand have become of paramount importance in the US, compared to other issues. This was the first time I encountered the term "latinx", which apparently no-one outside of the US really uses, particularly in Latin-American countries, but that the US left-wing has popularised over there.
On the other hand, the company was vehemently anti-union. Which is about as hard a position against the UK left-wing that you would find here. When visiting our US offices, I also heard colleagues who are nominally on the US left-wing side express what would be some very right-wing opinions from a UK perspective, relating to issues of class, property rights, and healthcare.
So I find it questionable that what is considered left-wing in US-based tech companies is really comparable to how it's understood elsewhere, by real leftists.
For example, we would have diversity and inclusion trainings that went into great detail about racism categories in the US that don't really apply here in the UK, and topics like gender identity that I understand have become of paramount importance in the US, compared to other issues. This was the first time I encountered the term "latinx", which apparently no-one outside of the US really uses, particularly in Latin-American countries, but that the US left-wing has popularised over there.
On the other hand, the company was vehemently anti-union. Which is about as hard a position against the UK left-wing that you would find here. When visiting our US offices, I also heard colleagues who are nominally on the US left-wing side express what would be some very right-wing opinions from a UK perspective, relating to issues of class, property rights, and healthcare.
So I find it questionable that what is considered left-wing in US-based tech companies is really comparable to how it's understood elsewhere, by real leftists.