March to keep women out of Google
Ah yes, of course they are.
Members of the alt-right are planning to protest Google for “silencing dissenting voices.”
The #MarchOnGoogle website says protests are planned at Google headquarters on August 19 in five cities: Mountain View, Calif., New York City, Washington D.C., Austin, and Boston.
Behold: a manifesto.
It’s time to #MarchOnGoogle
Google is a monopoly, and its abusing its power to silence dissent and manipulate election results.
Their company YouTube is censoring and silencing dissenting voices by creating “ghettos” for videos questioning the dominant narrative.
We will thus be Marching on Google!
People across the country will be protesting in front of the offices of every Google office.
Protesters may also be exercising their free speech rights, which Google does not respect, by protesting in front of the homes of Google’s executive team.
The date of the protests will be announced soon.
In the meantime, bookmark this page, and…
Post to the hashtag #MarchOnGoogle with your best memes.
All on the theme “bitchez R diffrunt”?
Activist and protest march organizer Jack Posobiec told The Mercury News that Google’s recent firing of James Damore, who wrote a controversial diversity memo, was part of the impetus for the protest. “Google’s firing of James Damore is the flashpoint here,” he said. “An engineer fired for simply expressing an opinion that ran counter to Google’s politically-charged atmosphere of an “Ideological Echo Chamber” as (Damore) put it. Real Americans are sick of Big Tech’s crackdown on free speech and we’re taking to the streets.”
All workplaces must be safe for Men who need to explain why women are Different From Men and coincidentally but inescapably thus Not Suited For Work At Google…and other places whose names will be supplied upon request or upon receipt of a Manifesto, whichever comes first. Or second.
The dudebros
United
Will never be defeated.
“Their company YouTube is censoring and silencing dissenting voices by creating “ghettos” for videos questioning the dominant narrative.”
YouTube…. Right….
Would this be the Youtube, whose comment threads so rapidly become a sewer for hatred against women, feminists and liberals (whether elite or not) in general?
Yes, because challenging a corporation big enough to have its own private army is wise…
My favorite part is that “thus.” (We will thus be marching on Google.) It just reeks of… of… scholarship.
Is Google a Monopoly? I mean, every time my PC updates Microsoft tries to get me to install Bing as my default search engine. And on my Android I can type in one search word and then select one of about six different search engines, including Bing and Yahoo! That’s certainly not a de jure monopoly. Having said that, Google is the only one that actually works effectively, everyone I know uses it, so is that a de facto Monopoly?
Let ’em march, It’s their right. Just like it’s everyone else’s right to roll their eyes or point and laugh. Sometimes that’s more effective than counter-protesting (NB not always. And certainly not in the case of neo-nazi militias who turn up waving assault rifles. But in the case of whiny white dudes trying to support a guy who has already been given the boot by the company whose resources he misused – yeah, we’re into patting the toddlers on the head and telling them to run and play territory, here.) It’ll be interesting to see how many dudely dudes turn up for this. I’m with Germaine Greer – if you can’t get at least five hundred people then don’t march. It just makes you look pathetic and insignificant…
I’m with that to an extent, but only an extent. In my town, if you can get 35 people to turn out for a march, that’s like a mega march, because this town is so apathetic and unwilling to do any sort of protest. So when our science march had 35 people, it should have made the news (the pro-immigration march had fewer, and made the news), but didn’t, because frankly the paper picks and chooses what it will champion, and a pro-science march doesn’t have the oomph of a pro-immigration march in this town, no matter how many people you get.
But again, 500 people for a town like this? Nope. The only way to get 500 people together (and I’m only guessing at this) is Nascar or the county fair.
Yeah, 35 people on a march? The problem is that in a town like you describe that just appears to the status quo as, “Hey, look how few people they’ve got. Pathetic, huh? The mainstream is obviously right.”
The key about any march (as opposed to any other form of activism) is that it is primarily an “advert for the brand”. You need a lot of people – the more contentious the issue, the more people you need – to achieve any of the things a march can achieve. What are they? Well as you point out, publicity is a huge one. But only if you’re going to get good publicity. the smaller your march, the easier it is for the publicity machine to either ignore you (as happened to you) or take the piss out of you mercifully. Second there’s raising the issue in the eyes of witnesses (and people who see the news reports). Again, if you’ve got 35 people walking through the centre of town, you’re not disturbing anyone’s worldview. If anything you’re helping to confirm it. There’s providing pressure on a particular authority by turning up mob handed outside his/their HQ/representative place. Turn up with 500 people and he’s got an unsettling visual to go with the other forms of activism that, hopefully, the march has been coordinated with. Turn up with 35 and he is reassured he’s right, and there’s just an easily ignorable crank group sending him emails etc.
That’s what I mean by marching with too few people as being positively damaging. And marching isn’t the only form of activism. Others are far more suited to areas where you can’t get a decent turn out – and, to be honest, big marches work best in big cities for big causes, just for demographic reasons. Smaller places need smaller, more pointed activism. Sneaky, fun “science days” for the kids (or call them something else, more acceptable and sneak the science in). I’d make videos, write articles, work with people’s local pride in themselves and their area. Yes, I get it that many of these people are deeply ignorant and prejudiced, which is why you have to be sneaky!