Posted on 01/05/2022 7:42:05 PM PST by karpov
Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a white-shoe law firm, and an econometrics research consultancy. He then spent six years at Thomson Reuters Corporation, the international media conglomerate, spearheading the company’s efforts on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced software engineering. By the beginning of 2020, Kriegman had assumed the title of Director of Data Science and was leading a team tasked with implementing deep learning throughout the organization.
But within a few months, this would all collapse. A chain of events—beginning with the death of George Floyd and culminating with a statistical analysis of Black Lives Matter’s claims—would turn the 44-year-old data scientist’s life upside-down. By June 2020, as riots raged across the country, Kriegman would be locked out of Reuters’s servers, denounced by his colleagues, and fired by email. Kriegman had committed an unpardonable offense: he directly criticized the Black Lives Matter movement in the company’s internal communications forum, debunked Reuters’s own biased reporting, and violated a corporate taboo. Driven by what he called a “moral obligation” to speak out, Kriegman refused to celebrate unquestioningly the BLM narrative and his company’s “diversity and inclusion” programming; to the contrary, he argued that Reuters was exhibiting significant left-wing bias in the newsroom and that the ongoing BLM protests, riots, and calls to “defund the police” would wreak havoc on minority communities. Week after week, Kriegman felt increasingly disillusioned by the Thomson Reuters line. Finally, on the first Tuesday in May 2021, he posted a long, data-intensive critique of BLM’s and his company’s hypocrisy. He was sent to Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion for the chance to reform his thoughts.
He refused—so they fired him.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Lawsuit time.
“Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion”
Wholly p0wn3d be Joe Stalin [and now Joe Stolen...].
“Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion”
Wholly p0wn3d by Joe Stalin [and now Joe Stolen...].
He’ll land on his feet. Hopefully on the necks of the true insurrectionists.
Bump
“ Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back. ” — Heraclitus
This is true in work too. Wokists are busy removing that one from everywhere and the 9 too if they can, and will be shocked to find how little happens when they’re gone.
We have a remarkably-high standard of living courtesy of the industrial revolution and modern medicine, but it's come at a very high price: we've basically been assimilated into the Borg.
Resistance may not be futile, but it's going to cost us that standard of living.
Problem here: when was he fired? It states June 2020, then May 2021.
“But how can 13% of the population commit more than 50%...”
“GET OUT! NOW!”
The Main Stream medias loss for Data Reporting, is some Private Equity shops Gain. I dont see this guy on LinkedIN so I figure he has word of mouth offers lining up.
Finance firms really dont care about this guys politics if he has a 85% confidence in an obscure financial instrument or market driving condition. There is a way to play shipping rate from India to London. Data scientist outside of ivory towers are either useful or they are not by a metric related to their efforts market rate. He is the typical late recurite for Wall Street or three letter agentcy, cast out by Harvard Peers, with a back story and one hell of diverse former client set.
Utility of numbers people is the predictive nature of their observations. Utility of Engineers is avoiding catastrophic failures by Architects. Utility of Woke Reporters and Politicians is only mesured in twitter followers, and fake asian teens blow away the entire NYTimes Staff in engagement ratings combined. A long dead Grumpy cat video pulls more eyeballs than fox news and CNN combined daily. A dancing baby rendering got more views and had more IT zeitgeist than all the apple ads ever bought for primetime.
Just occurred to me that the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) departments are functioning in the same way that political commissars functioned in the old Soviet political model; ensuring conformity at every organizational level to the party’s doctrine and direction.
The Wall Street Journal was under assault for years to fire Heather MacDonald. They couldn’t because in her research about the myth of Black Lives Matter, she dotted all of her “i”s and crossed all of her “t”s.
She was public, well known, and used government supplied numbers. This poor guy probably used her statistics.
Black Lies Matter
“You can’t discuss race unless you agree to use our Marxist comprehension of race! How can you discuss race without our Marxist comprehension?!?”
Everything is racist
In its own way
Like a statue or a book
They’ll dispose of them all someday!
Every white is racist
It’s in their jeans they say
Mommas kicking out oppressors
And daddy’s staying home
The world needs a cleansing of whites
There are none so blind,
Who don’t see the color of skin
They must make all children
Nurture bitterness deep within
(Chorus)
Boop boop boop
Another one under the bus
Boop boop boop
Another one under the bus
Another gets thrown, another gets throw,
Thrown under the bus
Hey, they’ll get Woke on you and throw you under the bus!
In the sort of world that BLM wants, he would be in a Gulag.
This guy seems pretty smart. Assuming he wanted to keep his job, I have a hard time figuring out how HE couldn’t figure out how his maverick opinions and findings would not cost him his job.
Reuters has been far-left,anti-America for many years. Just doing what Reds do. This just proves that they haven’t changed!!
yup
bkmk
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