James Damore will go down as one of the heroes of the MAGA movement. His plan to entrap Google was perfectly laid and like good SJLs – Social Justice Lemmings – the powers that be at Google fired him for doing nothing more than expressing an opinion.
That his opinion was outside of Google’s cultural norm is irrelevant. Google made an enormous mistake, firing Damore before realizing the long-term ramifications of their act.
No way did Damore not know exactly what he was doing by circulating his now famous ten-page memo about Google’s stifling culture. He did and he’s pursuing the next logical step, legal action.
Regardless of whether a court finds in his favor or not, Google’s reputation as an employer and as a service provider is now permanently tarnished. In their ideological fervor to stamp out all Wrong-think they provided us with prima facia evidence of their commitment to ideological excellence over operational excellence.
Stockholders should be selling on this news. This is a company that has already opened itself up to multiple shareholder lawsuits for selectively demonetizing sites its management is ideologically opposed to.
But, more than that, Google has crossed the Rubicon in the minds of people who wouldn’t be convinced of their behavior until there was proof. Because, believe it or not, we mostly project our own reactions on to other people when assessing their range of behavior.
It is our normalcy bias.
And, contrary to MSNBC, the DNC and the editors at the HuffPo, Most People are neither Social Justice Idiots nor are they mouth-breathing, closet racist Nazi sympathizers.
Most People are of the “live and let live with” type more than a modicum of pathos and humanity.
Most People aren’t ideologically-driven to remake the world in their image.
And so, when you confront Most People with the idea that Google, the company that Most People use for the day-to-day managing of their lives, is not a profit-driven provider of service for money, but actually a viper’s nest of closed-minded bigots and intolerant crazy-people they are immediately, in the common parlance now, “red-pilled.”
Now, Google, in the minds of Most People, gets lumped in with the same Antifa thugs destroying property in the name of ‘free speech’ that Most People actually despise.
Thanks Google. No one could have red-pilled that many registered voters as quickly as y’all just did.
Bless your little hearts, like we say here in the deplorable South.
So, Mr. Damore is a hero. He may have given us our Peak Social Justice moment. Google, along with Facebook and Twitter, are now openly censoring content on their platforms and hiding behind their Terms of Service as a way to enforce their narrow worldview.
This is exactly what they accuse “racists” or “homophobes,” of doing when they won’t serve black people at their restaurant or bake gay people a freaking wedding cake.
All the hectoring that we have had to sit through for decades now comes back full circle. They have used the power granted to them by us, the public internet built by tax money, to build an over-sized platform from which to become the very thing they purport to despise.
I expect bad treatment from Google if I use their services. I use Facebook solely to coordinate with my real-life friends. Twitter is a wasteland of poor thought, bad memes and worse grammar.
In my mind, Google has reached a level I reserve only for government. Most People aren’t there yet, but they are a lot closer now than last week.
That’s why, anarcho-libertarian that I am, I feel it’s well past time that all of these companies be regulated as public utilities and must abide by Constitutional protections of free speech as laid out in the First Amendment and per U.S. labor law.
I know it’s a dangerous argument. Getting the government involved is always dangerous. It’s a band-aid and not a solution. Platforms like Gab and #Steemit are solutions.
But, when these people have such an enormous voice in shaping political thought to promulgate behavior antithetical to a healthy body politic, it’s time for the herd to protect itself.
That’s what we did when we rolled the dice on Donald Trump. You can bet we’re not doing so in 2020 for President Cuck-erberg if Trump fails to drain the swamp.
And that’s the incredible irony of this. Because Google is the company that truly wants to control all the information that gets processed by your senses. Its goal is complete domination of acceptable speech and who can be a part of their version of society.
And the information it just transmitted to us?
Google is evil.
*This article originally appeared at HalseyNews.com
Simply said, google is evil. Censoring your world, 7 days a week.
And they just said that to another 10-20 million american voters. No less the rest of the world. This is Peak Google.
Well...he is with them on a lot of things. It is actually possible, that he just didn't think they would do anything, because he bashed conservatives in his memo and made sure to point out that he know where conservatives should be in the pecking order.
He wouldn't be the first SJW who didn't buy the full plan and got eaten by his own kind.
It's possible. They are at the point of demanding ideological purity. Being intolerant types in the first place the more threatened they feel, the more they will lash out.
Well, they are told they can only use the one brain between the entire collective. It can't handle bad cells.
I certainly didn't see any bashing of conservatives. He was even-handed, saying neither Left nor Right has all the correct answers. What he did do was to try to say as gently as possible that SJW ideology is a lie. That equality is impossible, and that failure to achieve it is not the fault of white males. And that policies that promote diversity of skin color but punish diversity of thought are unjust and hurt the company. The fact that Google spent $265 million on diversity programs that had exactly zero effect on the percentage of women in the company proves his point, as does his firing.
The boring stuff can be done by conservatives after the company is up and running.
And he ironically points out that a right biased company my be untrusting of others. A left biased company apparently can't even trust its own employees.
Yes, thankfully none of those backward right biased people are in the sciences and are questioning the cult of climate scientiology. Because they would be soooo wrong.
It might just be me.
I left off using Google a few months ago and use Duckduckgo which purports to not tracking you or using your data. Seems just as good for searching. Good article - thanks for the post.
I've been using startpage.com, which anonymizes your search before passing it to Google. Problem is, Google is now manipulating search results, so their results are no longer reliable. DuckDuckGo may be a better option, though I've been disappointed with their results in the past.
Well, I'm not holding my breath, but here's to hoping that a mass of reasonable people can look back and attribute this event as a red pill moment in their lives.
Did you see the alternative Google meme on ZeroHedge yesterday?:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-10/understanding-hysterical-reaction-google-memo
It spoke volumes to me. Then again, I'm already a believer...
This will definitely red pill a lot of people on the dangers these companies pose, and I hope will lead to an extension of First Amendment protections to the users of these services and to situations not involving the government. At the time of the founding, government was the only threat big enough to need explicit restraining in the Constitution. Now corporations, whether in cooperation with government or in opposition to it, are a greater danger than government itself. At least the government must follow due process before ruining your life. On the Internet, a mob of people you don't know can have you fired for a joke they didn't like in a matter of hours, with no evidence, no trial, and no appeal.
Listening to the Damore/Petterson interview & part of Molyneux's, I get the impression that Damore had a small red pill before, but this was a stinging nettle/thistle encrusted horse pill that was shoved down his throat. In the Peterson interview, he still thinks of google as "his" company.
Voxday predicts that what the SJWs at goolag will do is start releasing embarising info about people that they don't like. So we will be finding out what some people googled back in 2001, their porn habbits, etc.
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