Sup, you beautiful bastards. Hope you had a fantastic
Tuesday welcome back to the Philip Defranco show and let's just jump into it the first thing we have to talk about today is the
Google Manifesto story that has just blown up
So this story revolves around James D'amour a google engineer who published a 10 page anti Diversity manifesto titled Google's
Ideological echo chain the document shared as an internal memo by D'amour in detailed how the company should focus more on?
Ideological diversity and less on initiatives to hire more women and people of color
Now links to the full Pdf in the description down below
But let's go through the highlights of this thing that has spawned such outrage the document starts off by stating I value diversity and inclusion
I'm not denying that sexism exists and don't endorse using
Stereotypes if we can't have an honest discussion about this then we can never truly solve the problem at Google
We talk so much about unconscious bias as it applies to race and gender
but we rarely discuss our moral biases political orientation is actually a result of deep moral preferences and fuss biases considering that the
overwhelming majority of the social sciences Media and Google Lean left
We should critically examine these prejudices adding only facts and reason can shed light on these biases
But when it comes to diversity and inclusion google's left bias has created a politically correct
Monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence neither side is 100% correct and both Viewpoints are necessary for a functioning
Society or in this case comfort and going on to say on average men and women
Biologically differ in many ways these differences aren't just socially constructed because they often have clear biological causes and links prenatal testosterone
Biological males are castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify and Act like males no
I'm not saying that all men differ from women in the following ways or that these differences are just
He then goes deeper and deciding specific differences and challenges for women
Stating women on average have more openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas
women generally also have stronger interest in people rather than things relative to men also interpreted as
Empathizing versus systemising men in a section titled men's higher drive for status. He says we always ask
Why we don't see women in top leadership position?
But we never ask why we see so many men in these jobs these positions often require long
stressful hours that may not be worth it if you want to balance and fulfilling life status is the
Primary metric that men are judged on pushing many men into these higher paying less
Find jobs with a status they entail in on average look for more work-life balance
While men of a higher driver status on average the male gender role is currently
Inflexible any chart offer what he calls non-discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap saying women on average you a higher interest in people
We can make software engineering more people oriented with pair programming and more collaboration women on average are more cooperative
allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive James venn lists several discriminatory practices
He says Google is guilty of saying
Programs mentoring in classes only for people with a certain gender or race a high priority queue and special treatment for Diversity candidate hiring practices
Which can effectively lower the bar for diversity candidates by decreasing the false negative rate James also explains?
Why it feels like conservatives are alienated from the conversation writing and highly progressive?
Environments conservatives are a minority that feel they need to stay in the closet to Avoid open hostility James also saying Google should focus on
Psychological safety not just race Gender Diversity writing we should focus on
Psychological safety which has shown positive effects and should not lead to unfair discrimination
Having representative Viewpoints is important for those designing and testing our products
But the benefits are less clear for those more removed from ux user experience design and James also saying he wants google to reconsider making
Unconscious bias training mandatory for promo committee saying we haven't been able to measure any
Effect of our unconscious bias training it is the potential for overcorrecting or backlash
Especially if made mandatory let's spend more time on the many other types of biases besides
Stereotypes and as you'd expect there were many different responses to this some like Haley Ellis tweeting
I experienced this at Google and was frustrated that they did nothing about rhetoric
That was harming employees others called for James D'amour to be fired and for no one else to hire and others like emily
Gorski taking it a step further tweeting. I started reading that googler email and honestly at this point
If I worked there, I would just walk to his desk and beat the shit out of him at this point
I take the assault charge if only for the fucking garbage
biological essentialism
The other side of things you had people
Supporting James even before people knew who wrote this anything that this is just freedom of speech there were articles coming out saying that many
At Google don't actually disagree with James any saying that at Google fired him that this is censorship that the idea of having an open
Work place would be bullshit. That's kind of where the story remained for a minute, but then Google respond Google's Danielle Brown writing Googlers
I'm Danielle Google's, Brand-new VP of Diversity integrity and Governance
I started just a couple of weeks
to go And I had hoped to take another week or so to get the lay of the land before introducing myself to you
I've given the heat of debate we've seen over the past few days
I feel compelled to say a few words so versity and inclusion are a fundamental part of our values in the culture we continue to
cultivate we are
Unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company and will continue to stand for that be committed
To it for the long haul, so essentially google says we're looking into the situation
We want to have a place where people can express their opinions even if we don't agree with them
Well we also need to make sure that no anti-discrimination laws are being violated any of our code conda
I have to say looking to me outside and Google was put into a tough spot here
No matter what they did they were going to get hate so what happened?
Well Google Ceo Sundar Pichai told employees that the memo
Violated Google's code of conduct and from this it sounded like James may have been fired
Which is saying first let me say that we strongly support the right of googlers to express themselves and much of what is in that?
Memo is fair to debate
regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it however
portions of the memo violate our code of conduct and cross the line by Advancing harmful Gender
stereotypes in our workplace our job is to build great products for users that make a difference in their lives to suggest a group of
Our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not okay
it is contrary to our basic values and our code of
Conduct which expects each googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment
Imitation is and unlawful discrimination soon after this happened James d'amour did confirm that he had been fired saying he was fired for quote
Perpetuating gender stereotypes adding that he's currently exploring all possible legal remedy and actually on that legal now people have started
Raising money for his legal case one of the fundraisers that has been launched is seeking
$60,000 that has raised at the time of recording this video just under five thousand and then at Left-field
Julian assange pops into the situation and offers James two more a job leading
Censorship is for loozer wikileaks is offering a job to fire Google engineer James D'amour also providing a link to a wikileaks
Article Written by assange title Google is not what it seems then going on to say women and men deserve respect that includes not firing
Them for politely expressing ideas
But rather arguing back then providing a link to an article where four scientists actually agree with James D'amour on the situation
It's around the story
I would love to know what you think do you think that James should have been fired or no?
This is ridiculous you think that James crossed the line here, and so he should have been removed, or is his room
Oh, just an example of what he said at the beginning of his post
I'd love to know your thoughts on this I've seen some really interesting argument but from that. I want to share some stuff
I loved today and today and awesome the first bit of awesome today
I just have to send some love to miss gunn to Chris who oh my God the nation's sometimes very talented
It's created a filly the amiibo with packaging and everything and this isn't just a massaging of my own ego today awesome
Because I found this I went through her archive of photos and she's amazing
She's done a ton of other custom amiibos if you were even remotely into this
I highly recommend you check her out and follow then that youtuber by the name of chet Rio who gave us that fantastic
I am a live remix of Rick and morty
He's back at it again with this week's remix of pickle Rick and an awesome on the dodo
I just had to share that locked himself in a hot car for 30 minutes and videotape the whole thing to show people what happens
To a dog when they're stuck in that heat satur, this is apparently not common sense
But it's good to see people putting this out there then we got a trailer for the movie Mother which Stars Javier Bardem
Jennifer Lawrence Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer
And it looks freaky as all hell if you want to see the full versions of everything
I just share the secret link of the day anything at all
Links is always on the description down below and let's talk about the update around the hBO hack if you don't remember the hacker said
They had 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO some of that included episodes of HBo show the script for game of thrones
Then on Monday the associated press report the hackers had released more internal documents this including around a month worth of emails from Leslie
Cohen the vice president of film Programming odds are at least other Data Admin passwords some contact information
according to the guardian that included personal phone numbers home addresses
Email addresses for game of thrones start along with that the hackers who were going by the name, Mr.
Smith demanded a ransom of at least six million dollars to prevent the release of more files
so demand reportedly reading hBO spends 12 million for market research and 5 millions for games thrown advertisement so consider us another budget for your
Advertisements, I will say even with that threat. I highly doubt that hbo is going to give in to this ransom
I mean there is the argument that once you pay a hacker you that entice other hackers to attack you
I think it's also because we're talking about stolen data something that is digital something that is not tangible
I have this one thing. He gave it back to me
I know 100% that after I pay you you can't still release the same thing. I mean, there's no security for them
That's a it'll be very interesting to see how the story continues to develop. Let's talk about a story
I feel like I've gone out of my way to Avoid
Despite there being a new element to it pretty much every day
And that is Jake Paul a lot that's happened since the stories about him
Maybe getting kicked out of his house
And him definitely not getting dropped by the Disney channel a lot of the things that happen don't necessarily fit into my news show there
Were two things in the two weeks that we have not talked about Jake wood stood out
So the first being that jay Paul got even more backlash because of an interaction
He seemed to have with a fan fan sounds foreign to the United States
He said he's from Kazakhstan and Jay Paul says it sounds like you're just gonna blow someone up
Thank you
Somebody like send the new Corolla outraged, but then Jake Paul also continued to grow through then obviously I mean grow in subscribers
Not as a person
I know is something that actually kind of bothered me on august 5th jay Paul released a music video that definitely wasn't a diss track
According to the title was a diss track. I was at the news or anyone else
He has deemed the hater which I don't know why he's singing
I thought he just dabbed on them in this video Jay Paul one of the fastest growing
YouTubers one of the top YouTubers when people think of youtube more and more people are thinking of him asked the haters where was y'all?
At when I was on email trying to stop the press fans from killing themselves
And here's my favorite where was y'all at when Make-a-wish, hit me to meet my girl Kaley, and that shit changed me
I was lenny most disgusting things I have ever witnessed Jay Paul
just used this little girl who is sick and her wish was to meet Jake Paul for some reason as
Moral capital in my opinion
I understand why people are saying it looked like he used this little girl as a prop
We actually made the video of meeting haley. That's fine
I bet that made her day it brought more awareness to the Make-A-Wish foundation
Which is a fantastic organization, then you use the fact that you did that to show that you're a good person
Why is the news not talking about that hey jake? Maybe it's because you literally met her
24 hours before you released the music video you write that line before you met her or afterwards
You're like wait a second it'll show I'm a good person. That's
Disgusting and I kind of hate that we're even talking about it because it's like obviously it's on a different level this feels like talking
About Jake Paul is kind of like if there was a zombie epidemic and every time I talked about the zombie epidemic
More people became zombies like 98% of people on the same page
But 2% of people would be like but being a zombies savage though
He just add up all those two and three and four percents of audiences, and you have a monster
I don't know how it's gotten to this point
I used to think Jake Paul was just cGI creation to make Logan Paul
Look even better
and then I want to talk about a design studio that has blown up in the news recently because they are trying to reclaim the
Swastika a design group by the name of Ka design launched a line of t-shirts and sweatshirts
featuring the new Swastika with Rainbow colors in the words
love
Peace and Zen they announced this in this fantastic
Video that they released on July 12th on face book called the new Swastika the video knows that the swastika has been used in numerous
Cultures to symbolize peace love luck infinity and life until nazis took the symbol and turned it into hatred fear
War racism and power it goes on to say the nazi stigmatized the swastika forever
They limited our freedom or maybe not and introducing their new design to reclaim the symbol video urging people to wear the freedom closing with
the design studios motto
Questioning boundaries in the immediate response to this some people thought it was a joke others were quick to call the design insensitive
disgusting ignorant somewhere on the fence trying to understand the creators and
10-1 comments
Or writing I get what they are trying to do because the swastika was always a symbol of peace until the nazis started to something
Terrible and the idea is to reclaim it back to what it was so they no longer have the power I do not think slapping
A rainbow on a sWastika is going to do that
I think the damage is too much to ever reclaim another writing trying to reclaim the swastika to be Edgy is an insult to all
The people who lost their lives during the war
I hope you take down that video and issue an apology or your company is going to end up crashing and burning we get what?
You were trying to accomplish, but some things need to stay in the past and be burnt not everything can and should be reclaimed
So there was the initial backlash and then days after K design rework the shirt to include a circle with a slash
over the swastikas
But even after this design change people called for the shirts to be scrapped and many were confused by this complete U-turn the brand went
from reclaiming the Swastika to now selling anti Swastika Merchandise
Then in an attempt to defend the original design idea an unnamed
representative of Ka design spoke with days magazine over the weekend and there they said we really like the symbol and its shape and
Aesthetic so we would love to share the beauty of the symbol detached from the hatred
Associated with it
This project only represents the first step of our master plan and we are excited about what the future will give us we don't consider
Ourselves as skilled fashion designers
But more as artists and free thinkers in general you have some plans for the future that we are not going to reveal we
To be able to extend our swastika last buckets. Sorry. I have to stop. I can't believe I'm reading what I'm reading right now
We hope to be able to extend our swastika line to new design
concepts and colors while keeping our current peace message and the representative also explained that they wouldn't care if mounties purchased the shirt saying we
think the message of our apparel is clear peace love and freedom went over hatred war and prejudice if some kind of
Neo-Nazi goes out wearing our shirt. He will raise the same kind of questions and discussions as a communist wearing the same shirt
that's why we don't care about who buys the shirt then at this point, the
Anti-defamation league gets involved and they took to Twitter writing
This is an offensive use of Nazi imagery action can't reclaim the symbol from Hashtag hate and soon after all of this the shirts were
Taken down and Ta design released a statement where they said hatred and nazism have one we brought out the worst in people
We believe in a world of infinite forgiveness. We forgive everyone and we hope to be forgiven let love prevail
That's the story I'd love to know what you think and I just have to throw out my opinion here the first being that
Apology didn't really seem like an apology hatred and nazism
Have one why because your horrible idea failed also your forgiving people that aren't
Apologizing this apology just reeks of I'm better than you
But I'm going to let it slide because I'm such a good person
I understand the idea of trying to reclaim something take the power away from something that is so negative
I don't see how you're going to do that with clothing that you are going to profit from let's be a part of this movement
That shows love trump's hate and also. It makes me incredibly rich
It seems like the only way that you have got a little leeway here is if all of the profits from these shirts went to
all the different organizations
Of the people that were the victims of hitler and the nazis and so to me that just looks like a disgusting not well thought
Out cash grab. I also feel like the swastika doesn't need to be reclaimed
It does serve a purpose and our time still you see someone wearing the swastika
That's like a giant sign that says hey
I'm the fucking worst, but of course all of this last part is just my opinion
And that's why I passed the question on to you
what is your thought you get what they're trying to do the support or you against that is there a
possibly to try and reclaim the swastika is it something that anyone should even do I've know your thoughts on this that's actually where I'm
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