Grey Tribe

English Etymology en Q98400007 in a 2014 blog post (see quotation). Proper noun Grey Tribe 1 A loosely-defined culture in the United States associated with nerd culture, Silicon Valley, and political beliefs that fall outside of mainstream left-wing or right-wing ideology. en Red Tribe Blue Tribe en Scott Alexander I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup w:Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20230724074223/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ 30 September 2014 (There is a partly-formed attempt to spin off a Grey Tribe 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) en Andrew William Jones The Kids are Alt-Right: The Intellectual Origins of the Alt-Right https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/beb0816b-d5db-42c8-85a0-b55e83f27366/content https://archive.ph/St0pN 7 August 2023 thesis Toronto, Ont. w:York University August 2019 130 Prominent figures within the Grey Tribe are often international figures who fall within the vague in-between space between the genuine mass-media celebrity and the internet famous YouTuber or tech figure, as will be discussed later, these figures include Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson or Steve Jobs. en Gideon Lewis-Kraus Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley's War Against the Media w:The New Yorker https://web.archive.org/web/20230628095028/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media New York, N.Y. Condé Nast Publications 9 July 2020 0028-792X 320541675 The issue of the Gray Lady against the Grey Tribe, like so many conflicts that have recently played out on social media, is perhaps best viewed as an internecine struggle over the strategies of the Blue Tribe in an era of political crisis and despair. Everyone has skin in the game, and the stakes are high. Conor Friedersdorf Conor Friedersdorf Should the Professional Be Political? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/should-professional-be-political/616810/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251118161016/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/should-professional-be-political/616810/ 18 November 2025 22 October 2020 If so, Coinbase got a head start on ideologically assortative co-working, hastening the exodus of the progressives least tolerant of diverse co-workers while signaling to the "Grey Tribe" that it is safe at Coinbase. Cade Metz Silicon Valley's Safe Space https://web.archive.org/web/20230728131232/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html 13 February 2021 Life in the Grey Tribe