Google's firing of James Damore is actually very important to all of us, and we need to be seriously concerned. Damore has written an essay published at the Wall Street Journal that is, incredibly, behind a pay wall.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-1502481290
This is no time for anyone to try to make a quick couple of bucks off of this. Fortunately, Ed Morrissey has a good column on it here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/12/damore-no-one-expects-google-inquisition/
Highly recommended.
Across the Net, a lot of good articles are appearing on this. The whole PC/Multi-Kulti matrix is becoming an insufferable psychological suffocation blanket smothering our free thinking, and has got to stop. By that I mean what makes Western culture unique is the individual, not the group. When group-think wins out over the individual in the West, we're spiritually dead.
The basic Western idea predates Christianity: the ancient Greeks and Romans had one wife, the Easterners always had as many as one could afford; thus an Easterner "stole" Helen, and said in effect, "What's the big deal? She's just a woman. Get a few more for yourself." The Westerners said, "We're coming to kill you all for the abduction of just one of our people." A sort of early version of "We leave no one behind." (Yes, of course, Helen being Helen and the wife of a king, whose brother was High King of all Greece, ramped up the situation massively.) But it was the ancient Jewish and then Christian teaching that God made man in His image, and thus every human being has indescribable worth, that put Western Civilization on a course to dominate the world. But we're backsliding fast. We have to continually make the argument that we're not just chess pieces. This applies to small, side-lined cultures like the Trad Irish one too, of course.
In any event, the Comments on articles like these are often of interest. Here are a few point/counter-point from the Morrissey article:
Pro-Google: Mark L Rasmussen
This loser got fired and rightfully so. Google is doing fine running a multibillion dollar business. They don't need advice from him on how to run it.
Like · Reply · 1 · 14 hrs · Edited
Anti-Google:
Jeffrey Duff · Northern Michigan University
Google didn't fire Damore for incomptence at his job. Google fired him for having an opinion contrary to Big Brother. If Damore can be fired for an 'undesirable' opinion, how many Google searches can be changed or deleted for contravening the opinions of Google's upper management? (I think I need to find a new search engine.)
Like · Reply · 13 · 14 hrs
Scott Phillips
I bet you also support forcing folks to bake cakes, and Catholic orgs to provide abortion coverage.
Like · Reply · 8 · 14 hrs
Tim Mityok · UI Tech Lead at Cisco
His memo was available internally for about a month before it became public. Then he was fired. And firing him actually proved a large part of his memo accurate.
Like · Reply · 7 · 13 hrs
John Younkin
Mark - Hope you feel the same way in 5 years when all your data in google is released to whoever is willing to pay for it. They are taking over major markets with few controls. Thier company is made up of largely social progressives. How they use that massive trove of data they have on every man, woman and child that uses their service can become disasterous. Personaly, I have stopped using thier web search service and use an anonomizer service. What I look for on the web is my own business.
Think I am crazy. Look at some of the HR services google will be rolling out for profiles on potential employees.. I can see it now... John looks at right wing web sites... do we really want him in our company? Microsoft is doing the same thing with thier purchase of linked in.
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