{"id":65661,"date":"2018-01-12T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65661"},"modified":"2020-04-15T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:01:09","slug":"doing-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65661","title":{"rendered":"Being Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Google&#8217;s collective (heh) culture of Urban Progressive Privilege-sotted virtue-signaling intolerance fell onto Google engineer James Damore for the high crime of out that Google, ironically, has a relentlessly PC, virtue-signaling-focused corporate culture.\u00a0 Damore was summarily fired.<\/p>\n<p>This past week, Damore and his team\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455288\/james-damores-google-lawsuit-exposes-companys-intolerance\">filed their lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Damore has now answered Google with a legal broadside, and it\u2019s extraordinary. Most people don\u2019t have time to read his entire 181-page complaint, but those who do will find a comprehensive argument that Google\u2019s corporate culture encourages, sanctions, and facilitates an extraordinary amount of abuse against conservative white males.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Artists Conception of a Google staff meeting:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WupvCZhKMnM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And he has the receipts. Much of the complaint consists of screen shots of internal Google communications and postings on internal Google message boards that would constitute strong evidence of hostile-environment race-and-gender harassment if the the races and genders were reversed. For example, \u201cGooglers\u201d (that\u2019s what employees call themselves, using Google\u2019s silly corporate language) relentlessly enforce a so-called \u201cGoogley\u201d culture where employees blacklist conservatives (blocking them from in-house communications), actually boo white-male hires, and openly discuss committing acts of violence against political opponents. The \u201cpunch a Nazi\u201d debate is alive and well at Google, and the definition of \u201cNazi\u201d is extraordinarily broad. In one posting, an employee proposes a \u201cmoratorium on hiring white cis heterosexual abled men who aren\u2019t abuse survivors.\u201d In another, an employee advertises a workshop on \u201chealing from toxic whiteness.\u201d Another post mocks \u201cwhite fragility.\u201d The examples go on and on, for page after page. Damore also alleges (and again, provides screenshots of emails and other communications to support his claims) that managers actively attacked conservative employees, encouraged punitive actions against dissenters, and even awarded \u201cpeer bonuses\u201d for speech attacking conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google is a private business?\u00a0 Sure &#8211; they&#8217;ve got every right to run things any way they want.\u00a0 \u00a0But we&#8217;ve seen what mindless monocultures have brought to most of our major cities; what do you think it&#8217;ll do to a company?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Googlers may have special coding skills or may fit seamlessly in the company\u2019s Googley culture, but it\u2019s now plain that much of their discourse represents a special kind of pettiness, stupidity, and intolerance. It\u2019s often fact-free, insulting, and narrow-minded. In other words, a Silicon Valley monoculture produces exactly the kind of discourse produced by monocultures everywhere. While there are certainly kind, courteous, and civil progressives at Google, the existence of the monoculture also enables the worst sorts of behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Google&#8217;s collective (heh) culture of Urban Progressive Privilege-sotted virtue-signaling intolerance fell onto Google engineer James Damore for the high crime of out that Google, ironically, has a relentlessly PC, virtue-signaling-focused corporate culture.\u00a0 Damore was summarily fired. This past week, Damore and his team\u00a0\u00a0filed their lawsuit Damore has now answered Google with a legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,51,374,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65669,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65661\/revisions\/65669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}