It wasn't always like this. Silicon Valley was a lot more diverse/tolerant in the first dotcom boom and until ~2006 or so than since. It really went off the deep end circa the Brendan Eich incident (2014), and then the most recent Presidential election cycle. The "Ex-communicate Peter Thiel" movement was the point of no return, and when I decided to flee permanently.
It doesn't seem to be as bad even in other equally-liberal tech areas outside SV.
It doesn't seem to be as bad even in other equally-liberal tech areas outside SV.