Ex-Google exec claims he was denied promotion by woke tech firm because he’s a white man https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/busin...ng tech star at,future startup for $1 billion. A rising tech star at Google left the “woke” company after being told he wouldn’t get promoted because he is a white man – only to get the last laugh by going on to sell his future startup for $1 billion. Shaun Maguire, who worked at Google’s Mountain View, Calif.-based headquarters from 2016 to 2019, took to social media in the aftermath of the search giant’s Gemini fiasco to reveal that his then-boss at Google Ventures told him his “hands were tied.” The supervisor said that despite Maguire being “one of the highest performing people here,” he could not promote him “because I have a quota,” according to his post on Thursday. “I’m really not supposed to tell you this. It could get me fired,” Maguire quoted his then-boss as telling him in 2019. A source close to the situation told The Post that during Maguire’s tenure at Google, the company was roiled by the #MeToo scandals that engulfed Hollywood figures and senior executives in several industries who were accused of a range of sex crimes. The tumult surrounding #MeToo led to the formation of “employee resource groups” that began meeting regularly on Google’s campus, the source said. These groups would then draw up a list of demands for management to hire more women and other diverse candidates throughout the company, according to the source. His boss had resisted calls to meet hiring quotas that favored women and minorities but was forced to back down after employees at Google Ventures threatened to quit, according to the source, The pressure campaign extended to the company’s board, including founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the source claimed. A spokesman for Google called the entire account “completely untrue.” “The founders and Board have never spoken to [Google Ventures] about personnel matters. Shaun is a talented investor and we wish him well at Sequoia, but decisions about his promotion and career advancement at GV not once ever involved consideration of his race or gender,” the rep said. Maguire fired back when reached by The Post on Friday about Google’s denial. “My response is they’re lying through their teeth,” he said. A promotion would have more than doubled Maguire’s salary from around $500,000 a year at the time he was interviewed to “millions” annually, the insider said. The Post has sought comment from Maguire. Maguire would quickly rebound, selling his cybersecurity company, Expanse, to Palo Alto Networks for $1.05 billion in December 2020. He is currently a partner at Sequoia, the venture capital giant that has helped spawn Silicon Valley unicorns such as Apple, Google, Oracle, PayPal and WhatsApp. But Maguire didn’t spare his wrath over the misguided culture that continues to permeate his former company. “Gemini is the tip of the iceberg,” Maguire wrote on his X account on Thursday. He blasted Google as an “absolute trash can dumpster” after it was forced to pause its “absolutely woke” artificial intelligence bot Gemini, which produced depictions of black founding fathers and a Native American pope. Last week, Maguire teased that he would go public with his claim, posting a poll on X which read: “Should I go public with the story about the time I was told I can’t be promoted for being a white man?” The results were overwhelmingly for him to spill the dirt. Maguire wrote on X that at least five former and current Google employees reached out to him since his original post and shared “similar stories.”
DEI has destroyed campus meritocracy We owe it to future generations of students to dismantle this dangerous DEI grift before the educational values that allowed previous generations to succeed through hard work and talent are purged. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-788816 Ask any progressive and they’ll tell you that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is built on an unassailable core truth – the idea that the world is fundamentally divided into two groups of people: the “oppressors” and the “oppressed”. These groups are created according to a set of progressive values that center “privilege” and “whiteness,” encourage the “oppressor” to atone for their sins, and validate the “oppressed” in whatever “resistance” they make against their marginalized status. In this worldview, which is most visibly pernicious on American college campuses, Jews are placed in the oppressor category due to their proximity to “white privilege” and the “colonialist” State of Israel – with no mind paid to the last 2,000 years of persecutions – and “model minorities” like Asian Americans are frequently barred from accessing the same privileges as other non-white groups on account of their comparative (yet apparently ill-earned) success. Antisemitism falls low on DEI radar Consequently, even at a time of rising antisemitism, making campuses safe for Jewish students is very low on the DEI priority list. Last year, a review by Stop Antisemitism of 24 major colleges and university DEI offices found that only two of them had any specific programming or materials related to anti-Jewish hate. It is therefore unsurprising that in the wake of the October 7 attacks, these offices had almost nothing to say – not in the form of statements condemning the violence, nor in the form of new events or programming for Jewish students. In fact, campus DEI programs were most visible when their employees landed themselves in hot water, like at Cornell University, where a DEI director posted on Instagram the day after the attack about how Hamas was merely “launching resistance” and battling “against colonization.” So much for educating the youth in equality and inclusion. But DEI isn’t only destroying campuses through its dissemination of hypocritical hate masked as social justice. Instilling this ideology also comes at the expense of campus meritocracy, once a cherished educational value that historically allowed underprivileged students – especially Jews and Asian Americans – to ascend through hard work and talent. These days, students learn to perform the “right” kind of politics as the new tool of advancement. Students are forced to become masters of progressive performance art to succeed in the DEI caste system, telegraphing a version of themselves marked by the oppressions and social injustices they have overcome, and the various ways in which their identity leaves them less privileged. Asian American teenagers write college essays about how they are “not like other Asians.” Descendants of immigrant families dredge up minute instances of feeling culturally out of place. Black private school graduates from moneyed families advertise their struggles with racial adversity to disguise their obvious financial privilege and white students have played up or even made up their bisexuality (as one example) to achieve “minority” status. The list goes on. These students have learned how to play the DEI caste system, armed with the understanding that “merit” in the DEI system simply means overcoming a selective form of oppression, limited to broad binaries of race and gender, rather than referring to a more straightforward version of talent and hard-earned success that rewards high performers of any race or creed. IT IS VERY clear that the bloated DEI complex offers no real solutions for legitimate questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus, nor does it arm students with a meaningful drive to succeed. Any ounce of energy spent baying for Jews to be included under its auspices is energy wasted. These programs must be replaced with programming and values that incentivize academic meritocracy. This means insisting on objective measures of assessment, namely standardized testing, another historic tool of upward mobility for high-performing, socially disadvantaged groups – rather than subjective, politicized criteria. Contrary to popular progressive opinion, standardized testing has been found to reliably predict future student success and identify high-performing students from under-served areas. In fact, Dartmouth College just announced that it is reinstating its SAT requirement after a recent study concluded that SATs are a good predictor of college achievement – better than recommendations or even grades. Rolling back these programs also means applying demanding standards to faculty hiring, emphasizing measurable abilities like research productivity, educational credentials, teaching evaluations, and citations rather than on trumped-up personal narratives or diversity committee decrees. This means scaling back these distended DEI bureaucracies, which soak up a lion’s share of the capital from the growing tuition fees at American universities. Over the past generation, the eye-popping rise in university costs has not led to a significant rise in compensation for tenured faculty. Instead, most of the money has gone to “administrative bloat,” namely paying the handsome salaries of officials who supervise a sprawling caste of university bureaucrats with largely nonsensical jobs – especially within DEI programs. In 2018, an economics professor at the University of Michigan calculated that the university had nearly 100 diversity administrators, a quarter of whom made more than $100,000 a year. A 2021 Heritage Foundation report of 65 educational institutions found that there were 1.4 times as many DEI officers as history professors at the schools they surveyed. And like all bureaucrats, these officers are prone to devising silly tasks that justify their generous salaries, such as forcing instructors to curate racially diverse reading lists to be used as criteria in their yearly salary reviews. The continued university support of these self-serving, anti-meritocratic DEI offices is a disgrace. The continued university support of these offices, which inoculate students in limiting, oppression-based worldviews, diminishes the academic importance of meritocracy. Actively circulating antisemitic hate is an even greater disgrace. We owe it to future generations of students to dismantle this dangerous DEI grift before the educational values that allowed previous generations to succeed through hard work and talent are purged from campuses entirely.
"hey guise, guise, we're not oppressors, we're not colonizers, we've never been called that before, it's DEI's fault"
Well, last week was interesting watching the anti-white racism by another one of Google's DEI managers... Ironically, this one deleted his twitter/X account... not hard to guess why.
FBI gets absolutely torched online over image of white women on report about retail theft rings https://www.theblaze.com/news/fbi-image-white-retail-theft A social media post from the FBI was roundly mocked and ridiculed online after it added an image of white women to a report about retail theft rings in the U.S. "Higher prices, dangerous products, and closing businesses. These are just some of the impacts Organized Retail Theft has on everyday Americans," read the post. One of the women in the image appears to be putting a purse in her coat. The article outlines different kinds of retail theft operations and the effort the FBI is making to partner with local law enforcement agencies to thwart them and arrest the suspects involved. Criticism of the post on social media focused on the race of the two women in the image. "Yes folks, our FBI would like you to know that there is an epidemic of rich, young, attractive white women ransacking our retail outlets… How are they getting away with this lawlessness! This MUST be stopped!" responded John Zeigler. "This picture is so conspicuously inaccurate you have to just marvel at our federal government humiliating itself just to avoid offending Democrats," replied Joe Gabriel Simonson of the Free Beacon. "Mobs of white women descending upon CVS are why it’s harder to buy deodorant," joked Sam Mangold-Lenett of the Federalist. "Apparently the @FBI thinks the organized white upper middle class teenaged girl gangs are the ones to blame for higher prices and businesses closing," read another tweet. "White people are finally back in advertising!" responded author Scott Greer. "OMG, the WOKE FBI page is the funniest parody account on X. Yes, middle-class White women in designer clothes are the reason the laundry detergent is locked up at Walmart located in the South Side of Chicago," read another tweet mocking the post. The tweet from the FBI garnered over 5 million impressions from the criticism. A poll from 2023 found that young people are far more inclined to steal from stores than their older counterparts. Nearly a third of Gen Z consumers said that they had stolen products at self-checkout kiosks, while only 15% of total shoppers said the same. In one of the cases of thwarted retail theft documented by the FBI, four Ecuadorian nationals were indicted by a grand jury in November for allegedly orchestrating the theft of jewelry and 300 Apple Watches from their base in California, including $300,000 worth of diamonds.
Columbia University Hospital DEI Chief Is Serial Plagiarist, Complaint Alleges https://freebeacon.com/campus/colum...chief-is-serial-plagiarist-complaint-alleges/