I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions. If we can’t have an honest discussion about this, then we can never truly solve the problem. Psychological safety is built on mutual respect and acceptance, but unfortunately our culture of shaming and misrepresentation is disrespectful and unaccepting of anyone outside its echo chamber. Despite what the public response seems to have been, I’ve gotten many personal messages from fellow Googlers expressing their gratitude for bringing up these very important issues which they agree with but would never have the courage to say or defend because of our shaming culture and the possibility of being fired. This needs to change.
TL:DR
·Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.
·This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed.
·The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.
Personally, if I was going to burn in, I would go out with style, doing the old Breitbart – “Fuck you, Fuck you, and Fuck you too! In fact, fuck all of you.” Beginning by capitulating to any leftist ideal is just inviting attack.
That said, this poor bastard’s days are numbered, and I would be surprised if he isn’t named and shamed after he is fired.
This is what is now manifesting as the tyranny of the minority:
How Europe will eat Halal?—?Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoking section?—?Your food choices on the fall of the Saudi king –How to prevent a friend from working too hard –Omar Sharif ‘s conversion?—?How to make a market collapse
The best example I know that gives insights into the functioning of a complex system is with the following situation. It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority. If it seems absurd, it is because our scientific intuitions aren’t calibrated for that (fughedabout scientific and academic intuitions and snap judgments; they don’t work and your standard intellectualization fails with complex systems, though not your grandmothers’ wisdom).
The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in way not predicted by the components. The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts.
The minority rule will show us how all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly.
It is true, any minority today can dominate society solely through aggression. But this rule only holds for r-selection.
When you have an r-environment, where the sane meet the insane, the insane will usually dominate since the sane will seek the easiest, most conflict-free path forward, while the insane will neurotically explode if they are not allowed their insane demands, and their compulsions will motivate them more effectively. Where the insane are the left, even though they may not be physically dangerous, they still manage to control the dialog through this mechanism. Of course insane is a sliding scale, and when the Muslim suicide bombers show up, suddenly the rabbits will not have the high ground anymore, and the minority in control will get just a little crazier.
But when K-selection hits, the rule is embrace the conflict. Then the ones who will rule the society are simply the ones who win, ie the fittest of the fit, who by virtue of that will usually be sane. We see that beginning already.
Clearly given the highly r-environment in Google however, this programmer is going to be doomed, unless he is actually able to present the perception that he and his kind will kill everyone unless Google listens to him.
There may be a little bit of a lesson there.
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I think we can rule out this guy threatening to kill anybody. But if he thought he could remain anonymous in the heart of the surveillance machine he isn’t smart enough to be at Google. So we have to assume he thought this mission was important enough to jump on the grenade.
If he knew his stuff is certain to be in a cardboard box at the security checkpoint in the morning and his network access and id already deactivated, the question that is stewing the bowels of the smarter executives is what did he stuff on encrypted flash drives last week. And is any of it already being processed in at WikiLeaks.
Stay strong Google engineer. Remember, you are not alone.
Encourage everyone to read Orwellian Danielle’s “response”, posted at Motherboard. Who is Danielle, you ask? She’s “Google’s brand new VP of Diversity, Integrity, and Governance.” She just started a couple of weeks ago. You’d almost feel sorry for her … scratch that. Her job title should be Senior Fluffer, Conformity, Cravenness, and Totalitarianism. The first two paragraphs would fit right into a cracking good Paul Verhoeven flick. Excerpt:
Googlers,
I’m Danielle, Google’s brand new VP of Diversity, Integrity & Governance. I started just a couple of weeks ago, and I had hoped to take another week or so to get the lay of the land before introducing myself to you all. But given the heated debate we’ve seen over the past few days, I feel compelled to say a few words.
Many of you have read an internal document shared by someone in our engineering organization, expressing views on the natural abilities and characteristics of different genders, as well as whether one can speak freely of these things at Google. And like many of you, I found that it advanced incorrect assumptions about gender. I’m not going to link to it here as it’s not a viewpoint that I or this company endorses, promotes or encourages.
Casting insisted she be a single while female. So we didn’t have much choice in the matter.
I love that it didn’t take her beyond the salutation and first paragraph to prove everything the guy was saying is true. That she is utterly oblivious to the fact that she was doing so is a given. Classic.
I find this all very encouraging. There is a rising happening all around us. We are not alone and a formidable wave is building.
Be not afraid.
As expected, the guy has been fired for daring to challenge the narrative.