"Firing @timnitGebru created a domino effect of trauma for me and the rest of the team, and I believe we are being increasingly punished for that trauma."
Wow. These activists are truly living in an alternate reality.
Google, by virtue of its sheer influence in the industry, is primarily responsible for the activist-driven grief that has shat itself all over the tech industry in recent years.
So fuck them. Watching the toxic crops they've planted and tended to go for their own creator's throats is nothing short of delightful.
All the world's trillion-dollar companies have gone woke, so I'd wager it's quite profitable. It may not seem like it to you because you're not the intended audience.
They have usually gotten woke after becoming multi-billion-dollar companies. Being woke seems to be a luxury available when you have the money to spend on it.
You make it sound like politics was invented at Google... As opposed to being something that people have engaged in, since before recorded history[1], during times of upheaval of social and cultural norms.
[1] Certainly, since before 1998. The recent past was not some apolitical paradise.
The quote is from the article and it appears in almost every article on Internet about this topic, so they at least they are not random words. Everybody say this is a Twitter message, at least some may have read it.
I was referring to the initial quote, the "Firing ..." one.
The quote on "literal act of violence" is a cultural reference to an article in NYT in 2017 that is now used as a way to call someone a certain kind of leftist. The entire comment is about "these people", the "activists". So these words are also not "random words in quotes".
Not sure how and why they are creating them, but it's definitely a fertile breeding ground. Look what happened to Stallman - no corporation could bring him down, but the activists did.
Probably profit. They want enrollments, so they create "safe spaces", which in turn are more breeding grounds for these types of individuals. It also doesn't help that fields like the social sciences are extremely heavily left leaning already, and continue to hire from their kind.
I think the trauma comes from the percieved unjustness of the firing. (Which is understandable, but it seems - based on the linked r/ML thread and comments - they have a rather warped sense of victimhood.)
You use the term "these activists" and describe a problem of two people. I think you are trying to imply that activists in general have the problem. That would be the "hasty generalization" fallacy [0].
Because they are stressed from an unexpected and public termination, you think they're "activists"? Activists for what? Or is "activist" the new "communist"?
Wow. These activists are truly living in an alternate reality.