Nadene Goldfoot
Zac Kriegman knows how to get his point across being a data scientist for Reuters who became a Director. He's not being quiet about it. He came to my attention this morning on ABC.
Zac was fired for pointing to research by Roland Fryer who Coleman Hughes just had on the podcast, and others, which showed that there was no anti-black bias in police shootings as well as that DOJ investigations into police departments in certain cases caused an increase in homicides due to the police pulling back. This goes against all the films we have seen on TV, isn't it?
Roland ran into presenting information that was not politically correct and was fired. This happened before Kriegman had the same experience of being fired, presenting Fryer's information of all people. A sex scandal had been accused about Fryer to get rid of him.
Zac wrote:, "I worked at Thomson Reuters for six years, starting as a Senior Data Scientist and soon being promoted to Director of Data Science. He was earning 6 figures. ??????.00 (Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian multinational conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of the British company Reuters Group in April 2008.). I believe that Zac is a Massachusetts, USA fellow.
In that role, I pioneered the use of Deep Learning for understanding, analyzing and composing legal documents within the company, leading a team of Deep Learning scientists to help the company rapidly ramp up its proficiency with the technology and transform its business.
However, I started to notice more and more focus
in the company on political correctness and racial
ideologies. For example, on our internal social
media site, called the Hub, there were numerous
discussion threads, presentations and posts
uncritically promoting racial ideologies about
“white privilege” and “white fragility”, with
essentially no dissent regarding the underlying
assumptions of those ideologies.
Coleman Cruz Hughes is an American writer and podcast host. He was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a fellow and contributing editor at their City Journal, and is the host of the podcast Conversations with Coleman.
Coleman Hughes interviewed Kriegman:
My guest today is Zac Kriegman. Zac was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters before he got fired for posting a fact-based criticism of Black Lives Matter in an internal memo.
"This is one of the worst examples of Cancel Culture and enforced orthodoxy around the issue of race that I've seen in a while. " commented Hughes.
What is cancel culture? Cancel culture, also known as call-out culture, is a phenomenon in which those who are deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner are ostracized, boycotted or shunned. Isn't this the same as believing as a fact about some gossip going around? Isn't this the same when Jews were accused of using Christian blood in the making of their matzos for Passover? Are we into believing in false accusations again?
is an American economist and professor at Harvard University. Following a difficult childhood, Fryer earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington, but once there chose to concentrate instead on academics.
Fryer was an outstanding staff member at Harvard. By 2005, Fryer was regarded as one of Black America's and Harvard's rising academic stars, in the aftermath of publishing numerous economics-related papers in prominent academic journals. In 2007, at age 30, he became the 2nd youngest professor, and youngest African-American, to ever receive tenure at Harvard (Noam Elkies was 26).
In 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Professor Fryer to be the New York City Department of Education's Chief Equality Officer. Professor Fryer both inspired and oversaw the Opportunity NYC project, which studied how students in low-performing schools respond to financial incentives, offering as much as $500 for "doing well on standardized tests and showing up for class." In 2009, Fryer formed the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University, and served as its Director until its closure ten years later, in 2019. In 2011, he was named a MacArthur Fellow and received the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal. Professor Fryer discusses his education work with Russ Roberts in an October 8th 2022 EconTalk podcast.
Now as a director of data science at a major media company that has a respected fact-checking wing, part of Zac's job was to ensure that Thomson Reuters was using data accurately and he got fired for doing exactly that. Now he's suing Reuters for wrongful termination. In the meantime, Zac has a substack, where he has posted the memo which got him fired, as well as some other essays. You should definitely go check that out. In this conversation, we talk about the circumstances surrounding his firing and we primarily speak on the substantive issue of BLM and the effect it has had on policing and crime.
It's very distressing that actual facts have been kidnapped and distorted to present a one-sided version of what actually happened. Evidently Zac Kriegman got fired for his education of clearing out information and getting down to the facts. I know from my own experience that what goes on before a fact happens to explain that fact must be known, too, in order to get a clear picture of a fact.
In 2019, a series of investigations at Harvard determined that Fryer had engaged in "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature" against at least five women, that he had fostered a hostile work environment in his lab, and also cited unspecified conduct violations regarding Fryer's grant spending and lab finances.
Another conclusion is that not all Black people go along with Black Lives Matter's conclusions. I match people's DNA who are Kriegmans.
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BLM's Solidarity With The Pro-Palestinian Movement is what disturbs me, and that takes us to another topic.
Resource:
ABC's Full Measure Sunday morning programing with Sharyl Attkisson
KATU Sunday evening news on ABC, Portland's station, news interview with Kriegman.
https://kriegman.substack.com/about
Coleman Hughes-https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YRJCFrC65gU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_G._Fryer_Jr.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/05/19/americans-and-cancel-culture-where-some-see-calls-for-accountability-others-see-censorship-punishment/
https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_G._Fryer_Jr.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/1003872848/the-complicated-history-behind-blms-solidarity-with-the-pro-palestinian-movement
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