This is a new and very aggressive front in the Social Justice War: targeting users because of their possible intent to go to a political event (a “signature strike”) and “unpersoning” them.
* It is getting more and more totalitarian. Eventually they will tell all companies (including employers) about anyone’s participation in a political rally, and then total excommunication will follow: you’ll no longer be able to buy food at the grocery store. It won’t be a problem because you won’t have any money, since you won’t have a job and your business will be boycotted out of existence. Your only option will be begging on the streets for food. SJWs will roam the streets searching for badthinker beggars, and will threaten anyone willing to give them food.
* As a software engineer in greater Boston for the last 35+ years, the number of female engineers I worked with in telecommunications (R&D) startups could be counted on one hand. Some were good, others were not. But the issue is usually not the capability, but the sometimes testosterone-filled environment. And I am not talking about cigars or sexist comments, only the amount of *drive* exhibited by young and smart males (I was average on all counts). It a technical design review meeting, “feelings” don’t enter into it! BUT IT’S NOT PERSONAL!
So in a way, I can understand that some women do not *like* that environment, but most move into other areas of tech where it is less masculine (or more people-oriented), e.g., IT or tech marketing, etc.
* It’s a common place observation that when a woman complains to you about problems with relatives, coworkers, or whatever she doesn’t want to hear your solutions, she just wants to unload her mood and have you validate her emotions. “Yes, yes, this is so terrible.”
You can see how this approach may be counterproductive in the corporate environment. “Our sales are down. Let’s all feel bad!”
Ironically, something of this dynamic may be happening in the celebrated witch hunt cases. SJW women complain about nasty brutes who say nasty things. SJW men come up with a solution – fire the brutes. But that’s not what the women had in mind. They just wanted to be the center of attention and gain status by using the most powerful weapon in their social circle – whining.
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* Ancient peoples, and most people outside western civ till quite recently, did not actually have a concept of race as developed in Europe during the early modern period.
All peoples knew who they were, and who “the other” was. “The other” was anybody who wasn’t us.
What they didn’t have, generally speaking, was the idea that all of humanity was broken down into three or four or five huge groups, with each of those groups having much in common with each other and much less with those in the other groups.
IOW, the Crow Indians knew perfectly well that their enemies the Sioux and Blackfeet were not Crow, and that they were enemies. What they didn’t think of was that they were part of the same “race” as the Sioux and Blackfeet, as opposed to the white man.
They saw Blackfeet and white men and Sioux as pretty much the same thing, non-Crows. Same is true of most peoples. The Chinese used to, maybe still do, think of non-Chinese as an undifferentiated mass, with their most salient characteristic being that they were not Chinese.
Another way to look at this is that historically most people viewed the most important characteristic of a person is whether he was “us” or “them,” kind of the Jewish view of Jew or Gentile. What other characteristics the Gentile might have were comparatively unimportant. The important part was that he was not a Jew.
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Published on Aug 9, 2017: In this video, I talk to James Damore and another employee who wishes to remain anonymous about James’ memo regarding Google’s diversity programs and their overweening ideological basis. He was fired last night. That says everything that needs to be said.
This means that the company that is arguably in charge of more of the world’s communication than any other has now fired a promising engineer for stating a series of established scientific truths. That’s worth thinking about.
Hate facts: references (full papers linked where possible):
Sex differences in personality: http://bit.ly/2gJVmEp http://bit.ly/2vEKTUx Larger/large and stable sex differences in more gender-neutral countries: (Note: these findings runs precisely and exactly contrary to social constructionist theory: thus, it’s been tested, and it’s wrong). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1… https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1… http://bit.ly/2uoY9c4 (Women’s) interest in things vs (men’s) interest in things: http://bit.ly/2wtlbzU http://bit.ly/2fsq7Ru The importance of exposure to sex-linked steroids on fetal and then lifetime development: http://bit.ly/2vP0ZLS Exposure to prenatal testosterone and interest in things (even when the exposure is among females): http://bit.ly/2wI28RE Primarily biological basis of personality sex differences: http://bit.ly/2vmtSMs http://bit.ly/2uoPzy0 Status and sex: males and females http://bit.ly/2uoWkMh http://bit.ly/2uoIOw8 http://bit.ly/2vNzcL6 To quote de Bruyn et al (first reference on status and sex, above): high status predicts more mating opportunities and, thus, increased reproductive success. “This is true for human adults in many cultures, both ‘modern’ as well as ‘primitive’ (Betzig, 1986). In fact, this theory seems to be confirmed for non-human primates (Cheney, 1983; Cowlishaw and Dunbar, 1991; Dewsbury, 1982; Gray, 1985; Maslow, 1936) and other animals from widely differing ecologies (Ellis, 1995) such as squirrels (Farentinos, 1972), cockerels (Kratzer and Craig, 1980), and cockroaches (Breed, Smith, and Gall, 1980).” Status also increases female reproductive success, via a different pathway: “For females, it is generally argued that dominance is not necessarily a path to more copulations, as it is for males. It appears that important benefits bestowed upon dominant women are access to resources and less harassment from rivals (Campbell, 2002). Thus, dominant females tend to have higher offspring survival rates, at least among simians (Pusey, Williams, and Goodall, 1997); thus, dominance among females also appears to be linked to reproductive success.” Personality and political belief http://bit.ly/2hJ1Kjb http://bit.ly/2fsxIzB http://bit.ly/2fsILJd http://bit.ly/2uoPS87 http://bit.ly/2ftDhOq Conscientiousness associated with conservatism; neuroticism and agreeableness with liberalism: http://bit.ly/2wHNA4r Occupations by gender: https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gend…
* Watching the battle for the future of Western civilization is far more fascinating and relevant than anything else I can name. Videos like this have basically taken the place of movies and TV in my life.
* HBD differences between races are much more subtle and nuanced than differences between sexes which is why Damore was wise to focus on gender. Had he made his post all about race, he would have been toast already.
Google’s goal is to shut this down as quickly as possible. There is no way they can win so what we will get after the ritualistic firing is a recital of feminist dogma and then back to normal as if nothing ever happened.
The lesson for those on the right who would like to go about making change, focus on the feminists first. Once they have been deconstructed, then the other identity groups will be far more vulnerable.
* I think Sundar Pichai is a naturalized US citizen. If so, Jeff Sessions should be denaturalization proceedings against him immediately. Pichai does not believe in the First Amendment. Send him home! Let’s see if Google can find an American to do Pichai’s job.
* What we need is a Mental Nudist Colony, a place where all things can be discussed without inhibitions.
Progs focus on physical nudity, but mental nudity is more important for honesty.
After all, the Emperor has no clothes. What we need to do is undress our inhibitions and say so.
* I’m struck by how likable and decent Damore seems to be.
What parent wouldn’t be proud to have a son like this?
* How do you feel today about someday entrusting your life to a Google self-driving car?
* Given how totalitarian Google has become both ideologically and technologically we need to demand separation of Search and State.
* The Globalizers have control of the media, academia, banking, government, corporations and the military. The Globalizers in media and academia are especially showing signs of mental decay. Good! Maybe the strength they seem to have is a weakness that will soon destroy them. The various Battles of Berkeley and the Google and media nonsense that attempts to stifle free speech will ultimately destroy the Globalizers in the corporate media and the universities.
President Trump and American Patriots must keep the pressure on the mentally deranged scum in corporate America and academia. If anything, American Patriots must intensify their provocations against the evil Globalizers who are using the media and academia to attack White Core Americans.
Charge the bastards. Charge the bastards and break off the attack. Wait until the Globalizers in the corporate media and academia make a fatal mistake, and then charge them again.
* A couple of decades back, when all this identity-nonsense was in its infancy, a CEO of a large Danish engineering firm was asked by a journalist why there were so few women on his staff.
“It is against company policy to hire women”, he replied with a straight face. “We don’t hire blacks, Jews or homosexuals either. We hire engineers.”
* Damore does indeed come across as intelligent, thoughtful, and decent.
* That is his non-threatening beta schtick, which is his best strategy for success. I like that you notice it as “coming across” rather than “is”.
Its a mask. Had me fooled at first, I was thinking, wtf, this dude is as bad as the rest, but you watch him, you start getting tells.
But he is a smart guy and certainly understands that in no way can he afford a Nazi/racist/mysogynist whatever tag that allows instant/irrevocable demonization. He has to be as above reproach as the Queen, so he has to have a thoroughly SJW compliant demeanor.
You see him echoing lines he knows he has to say. He is indeed truly something of a man-child, but that is virtually endemic in his generation, bovine growth hormones or something.
My guess is he is as red-pilled in the same manner you (Whiskey) are. This guy has been all over the PUA blogs. C’mon, Systemic Biology, grad school dork?
Were I looking to discredit this guy, I’d start trying to unmask some identity of his on some pickup artist blog/forum, etc. See if he ever posted any field reports, better yet videos, etc.
Regardless of what tracks one may find, and I’m sure he’s covered them as best he can, I’ll bet he’s got some super interesting thoughts on the subject.
Notice that he could have picked other protected classes, like racial. As well as race being more toxic, my guess is that he just isn’t interested in that subject like he is in the woman stuff, he had all that material at his fingertips.
Probably his PUA stuff was first, out of frustration, which led to maybe alt-rightish views (non-triggeringly coded as “libertarian”, dude is an extremist even at that mild term), which finally led to this. He voted Trump, I’d wager.
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The data show that race is less important to white Americans’ sense of self than to nonwhites — more white people say being white is not at all important to their identity relative to the numbers who say so in other groups. But Mr. Trump’s continued efforts to remind white Americans of their group status may increase the number of white people who think of themselves through a racial lens. It is one of the ways that his campaign and presidency may reshape public opinion and politics.
He is capitalizing both on an existing sense of threat among white voters and the opportunity to shape the way whites — because of their group membership — think of themselves.
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Mr. Thiel, also one of the original investors in Facebook, had given a prime-time speech supporting Mr. Trump at the Republican convention. In contrast, Mr. Hastings, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, said earlier last year that Mr. Trump, if elected, “would destroy much of what is great about America.”
Mr. Hastings, the chairman of a committee that evaluates Facebook’s board members, told Mr. Thiel in an email dated Aug. 14 that the advocacy would reflect badly on Mr. Thiel during a review of Facebook directors scheduled for the next day.
“I see our board being about great judgment, particularly in unlikely disaster where we have to pick new leaders,” Mr. Hastings wrote in the email to Mr. Thiel, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. “I’m so mystified by your endorsement of Trump for our President, that for me it moves from ‘different judgment’ to ‘bad judgment.’ Some diversity in views is healthy, but catastrophically bad judgment (in my view) is not what anyone wants in a fellow board member.”
…Some prominent Silicon Valley figures are concerned there is too much political conformity in the tech industry. On a podcast in May, Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, said he knew of only two Trump supporters in Silicon Valley, Mr. Thiel and Mr. Luckey.
“What does it do to somebody when they feel like they literally can’t express themselves?” said Mr. Andreessen, a Facebook board member who backed Mrs. Clinton last year.
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Comment: “I know some Harvard people personally, and even if right-leaning, they wouldn’t really dare speak out. Perhaps tragically or amusingly, one of the most “Republican” of them was an openly gay man who was hoping that the College Republican chapter of Harvard could turn into a male-dominant place for him to find other gay men and/or get men to experiment with a gay lifestyle.”
In the third part of his Torah in Motion lecture series on the Ben Ish Chai, Marc Shapiro says: “Students need to be given training so that they can earn a living. He also says that is important for the Jews of Iraq to speak a proper Arabic. The language of the city is Arabic but the problem is that we don’t speak good Arabic. We speak Judeo-Arabic… Is there any more of a lack than when someone living in a country doesn’t understand its language?
“I’ve met people from Kiryas Joel and Williamsburg , born in America, not only do they speak with an accent, they are functionally illiterate. This guy in New York is suing the State of New York because they don’t enforce the law that every school needs to teach basic secular education.”
“It’s a form of child abuse. They can’t speak English. They can’t earn a living.”
Yiddish Isn’t Enough
A Yeshiva Graduate Fights for Secular Studies in Hasidic Education
Naftuli Moster was a senior at the College of Staten Island when he first heard the word “molecule.” Perplexed, he looked around the classroom. Nobody else seemed confused. Yet again, because of gaps in his early education, Mr. Moster was ignorant of a basic concept that everybody else knew.
“I felt embarrassed and ashamed,” he said. “Every single time I didn’t know something, I thought, ‘I’m too crippled to make it through.’ ”
Mr. Moster had grown up one of 17 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where most Hasidic men marry young and, right after finishing yeshiva, or high school, either immediately enter the work force or dedicate themselves to Talmudic studies. But if Mr. Moster’s educational ambitions were unusual among his peers, his limited grasp of English was not.
There are 250 Jewish private schools in New York City, and though some schools, like Ramaz on the Upper East Side, have intensive secular curriculums, many do not. Nearly one-third of all students in Jewish schools are “English language learners,” according to the city’s Department of Education. Yiddish is the Hasidic community’s first language, and both parents and educators report that many boys’ schools do not teach the A B C’s until children are 7 or 8 years old. Boys in elementary and middle school study religious subjects from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. followed by approximately 90 minutes of English and math. At 13, when boys formally enter yeshiva, most stop receiving any English instruction.
This has been true for decades, even though Hasidic schools receive millions of dollars in government funds and are required by state law to teach a curriculum that is “equivalent” to what public schools offer.
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Mr. Moster, worried that the next generation of Hasidic Jews, plagued by high poverty and scant opportunities, will be ill prepared to provide for themselves, is calling attention to the problem with activism and possible legal action against the New York State Education Department. But the odds are against him. What Mr. Moster needs most is a groundswell of support, yet he has been marked as a renegade by the very community he says he is fighting for.
Mr. Moster, now 28, is working toward a master’s degree in social work from Hunter College. He attributes some of his success to early exposure to English. His parents spoke English between themselves, though they exclusively used Yiddish with their children. Mr. Moster’s sisters spoke English when they were growing up, he said, because Hasidic girls generally receive a better secular education than the boys. He was also a curious child. As a boy, he became interested in psychology after an Israeli psychologist came to Brooklyn. The community “really bragged about it, so I became intrigued in that field,” he said.
Though Mr. Moster was eager to know about the outside world, he did not realize that secular education could open those doors. In his school, he said, English, math and science were considered “profane.” When Yeshiva Machzikei Hadas Belz, the school on 16th Avenue in Borough Park where Mr. Moster was one of about 1,500 boys, added an extra year of secular studies, the students rebelled. “We kids were outraged,” Mr. Moster recalled ruefully. “We’d been waiting so many years to get rid of these nonimportant subjects.” The school soon reverted to its old curriculum.
The man behind the added year was a Yeshiva Belz board member named Jacob Ungar. Today, Mr. Ungar has high praise for his community’s educational standards. “It’s like at any school, where you have the main subjects and then the extracurriculars,” he said, adding: “Whatever a child usually gets in a public school, or Catholic parochial school or modern Jewish school — the yeshiva education is superior to that. Our students are as well educated as they were 100 years ago.”
When Mr. Moster first applied to college, after yeshiva, he did not know what a high-school diploma was. He had never learned the word “essay,” let alone been taught to write one. “I know I sound articulate,” he said recently. But nine years after beginning higher education, he said, “there are still times where I’m completely stumped by a certain word or concept that is familiar to the average student.”
“Given basic tools, I could be a lot further in my education,” he said. “That’s true for every member of the Hasidic community.”
In 2011, Mr. Moster founded Young Advocates for Fair Education, or Yaffed. Its aim was simple. The state’s Education Department requires the city’s nonpublic schools to teach a curriculum that is “substantially equivalent to that provided in the public schools,” and requires local school superintendents to ensure the standards are met. Mr. Moster says those standards are not being met.
So he sat down with three superintendents in New York whose districts have large Hasidic populations. “Two of them had no idea it was their responsibility to enforce the law,” he said. “In one case I was pointing out the regulations online.”
In a statement, the city’s Education Department said Mr. Moster needed to identify wrongdoing in specific schools for superintendents to investigate. “Superintendents cannot just show up at private schools for random inspections without a reason,” a department spokesman said.
Mr. Moster said his goal was to advocate systemic change, not to punish specific institutions. He also sent a concerned letter to the State Board of Regents, which oversees the State Education Department. He received a response that said that “although there is an equivalency of instruction requirement,” nonpublic schools “largely operate outside the scope of state-mandated general education requirements and oversight.”
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In his part one lecture on the Ben Ish Chai for Torah in Motion, Marc Shapiro says: “Anyone over 30 knows how different things are today than when we were growing up… We are accustomed to thinking that this sort of thing, changing long-standing practice, is characteristic of modern times. It is the mysterious haredim who want to keep telling us what we are doing is wrong. Hasidim don’t do this. They follow their minhag going back but the Lithuanians are constantly changing, constantly telling us what we are doing is wrong. People assume that this is a new thing, but it’s not.”
“Rav Ovadiah had his tefillin checked and it turned out that for five years, he was wearing pasul (faulty) tefillin.”
“You don’t need to check your tefillin ever. If you buy tefillin and they are kosher, you do not need to check them again ever.”
“Mezuzahs you check twice every seven years.”
“The Rambam says that the masses can’t handle the truth. You have to lead the masses to the mitzvot.”
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
