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Originally posted by captain127:
It would be very unpopular and immediately discredited by mainstream media and groups such as BLM, but I would make a safe bet if you studied black society and culture, that blacks which grow up in nuclear families have a substantially higher rate of graduating high school, going to college and being upstanding members of society versus those that did not.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

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Originally posted by captain127:
It would be very unpopular and immediately discredited by mainstream media and groups such as BLM, but I would make a safe bet if you studied black society and culture, that blacks which grow up in nuclear families have a substantially higher rate of graduating high school, going to college and being upstanding members of society versus those that did not.

Thomas Sowell and others have shown that prior to the rise of the Great Society welfare system in the 1960's that black families were very common (compared to single motherhood) and the children grew up to be law abiding productive adults.

Sowell says very eloquently that there are behaviors which preclude (or nearly preclude) success, and that these behaviors have become idealized within the black community. Single motherhood, taking drugs, criminal activity, dropping out of school, etc.

It seems similar to some of the Indian reservations, where being the opposite of white is considered desirable, but is a mistaken understanding. They are rejecting successful behaviors which have nothing to do with race.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
Almost makes you wonder if there are any damning internal emails that could put Microsoft at risk if they were to be sued for discrimination. Hmmmmm?

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* Following interviews with concerned employees throughout the company, a portrait of a leaderless Google in total disarray, making it “impossible to ship good products at Google”

*Revealing the complicated diversity architecture underpinning Gemini’s tool for generating art, which led to its disastrous results

*Google knew their Gemini model’s DEI worldview compromised its performance ahead of launch

*Pervasive and clownish DEI culture, from micro-management of benign language (“ninja”) and bizarre pronoun expectations to forcing the Greyglers, an affinity group for Googlers over 40, to change their name on account of not all people over 40 have grey hair

*No apparent sense of the existential challenge facing the company for the first time in its history, let alone a path to victory

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Over the last week, in communication with a flood of Googlers eager to speak on the issues facing their company — from management on almost every major product, to engineering, sales, trust and safety, publicity, and marketing — employees painted a far bleaker portrait of the company than is often reported: Google is a runaway, cash-printing search monopoly with no vision, no leadership, and, due to its incredibly siloed culture, no real sense of what is going on from team to team. The only thing connecting employees is a powerful, sprawling HR bureaucracy that, yes, is totally obsessed with left-wing political dogma. But the company’s zealots are only capable of thriving because no other fount of power asserts, or even attempts to assert, any kind of meaningful influence. The phrase “culture of fear” was used by almost everyone I spoke with, and not only to explain the dearth of resistance to the company’s craziest DEI excesses, but to explain the dearth of innovation from what might be the highest concentration of talented technologists in the world. Employees, at every level, and for almost every reason, are afraid to challenge the many processes which have crippled the company — and outside of promotion season, most are afraid to be noticed. In the words of one senior engineer, “I think it’s impossible to ship good products at Google.” Now, with the company’s core product threatened by a new technology release they just botched on a global stage, that failure to innovate places the company’s existence at risk

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