Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
And it has been my experience that people who have politics &quot;happen&quot; to them from &quot;the moment [they] wake up to the moment [they] sleep&quot; in large part simply <i>perceive</i> that to be their existence.<p>I have read countless articles and posts at this point claiming that &quot;America doesn&#x27;t care about black bodies&quot; and that black people in America should &quot;fear for their lives every day,&quot; all in regards to the perceived danger of police shootings. In that example, despite this perception by not only those populations themselves, but a large majority of the population at large, the facts are that 1000 people (0.000003% of the population) are killed by police annually. 24% of those killed are black. No person has a statistically relevant chance of being killed by police, and yet it is not uncommon to hear it stated that this is simply this segment of the population&#x27;s &quot;lived reality.&quot; It isn&#x27;t, and that&#x27;s the problem.<p>I actually think that this is a central theme to many of these discussions, where one population is claiming that there is a substantial disadvantage to having a certain characteristic, whereas the counter states that there is either no such disadvantage, or its magnitude is misrepresented.<p>In any event, I think that there is often merit to both cases, and I think what you&#x27;re seeing with the Facebook group here is simply a response to the growing perception that the conversation has become increasingly one-sided in the large SV corporations. Stating, as James Damore did, that the lack of female representation in tech is not appropriately attributable to workplace bias was a fireable offense. That&#x27;s not okay.