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> In 2020, Shor was fired by Civis Analytics after tweeting a summary of an academic study about protests by Omar Wasow, a black political scientist at Princeto
by imgabe 5y ago
> In 2020, Shor was fired by Civis Analytics after tweeting a summary of an academic study about protests by Omar Wasow, a black political scientist at Princeton University. Shor's tweet read "Post-MLK-assasination race riots reduced Democratic vote share in surrounding counties by 2%, which was enough to tip the 1968 election to Nixon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shor
There’s one example of many of a thing that supposedly “doesn’t actually happen”.
- krainboltgreene 5y ago"In 2020, 8.9% of employed LGBT people, including 11.3% of LGBT employees of color and 6.5% of white LGBT employees, reported being fired or not hired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity."[1] Your dude david who "serves as head of data science with Blue Rose Research" is barely a blip. [1] https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-workplace-discrimination/ https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-wor...
- imgabe 5y agoShockingly low considering it’s self reported. I would expect far more people to latch on to any excuse for getting fired or not hired besides “I wasn’t that good at my job”.