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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by suifbwish on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:23PM (#25297433)
I am implying that they often scare away their competition by attacking the character of the individuals who they work with, rather than focusing on true accomplishments that would give them legitimate merit for the positions they aspire to. Their supervisors can even be intimidated into promoting them if they have a history of filing complaints of discrimination when things don’t go their way.

It’s also possible that some promotions/hires are based on desired political appearance of the company. Promoting someone based on certain race and gender types ironically makes your company seem less racist and sexist to the casual outside observer.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by gnusty_gnurc on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:58PM (#25297677)
I think there’s definitely a dynamic in any dogmatic arena (social justice is dogma heaven) where the most pathological people thrive.

In the high-dogma arena there’s incredibly easy and visible signals that give you the ability to appear like “one of the good ones.”

I think coincidentally this is highly attractive to elite circles too. Follow all the social justice rituals and shibboleth and you suddenly get the camouflage of an empathetic, good person.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by rbanffy on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:56AM (#25301350)
> Follow all the social justice rituals and shibboleth and you suddenly get the camouflage of an empathetic, good person.

If a person is indistinguishable from a good human being, isn't it actually a good human being?

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by username90 on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:11AM (#25301432)
No, plenty of rapists and abusers etc do all the social justice rituals.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by rbanffy on Sunday December 06, 2020 @06:35AM (#25322839)
Then they are distinguishable by observable behavior.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by gnusty_gnurc on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:08AM (#25302333)
It's like they didn't read any I wrote - or just demonstrated how much the woke let down their guard if people shut up and do whatever they say.
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