Google Tweaks Image Searches

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jewamongyou

In October, a Bloomberg article informs us that Google has “Quietly Tweaked Image Searches for Racially Diverse Results.”

Along with claims that the move was to “promote diversity,” we’re also told that:

Google announced a raft of changes to its search engine in September, at an event called Search On, including a feature to add more context to results to help combat misinformation.

Inspired by a commenter on Amren, I tried several different Google searches in order to test this new “improvement.”

“American inventors:”

American Inventors

26 images, on the first page, featured individuals. Counting each image as only one person (as none of them featured mixed groups), here’s the racial breakdown:

19 of them are black

5 are white

2 are Asian

Some “context!” Based on these results, we get the impression that the lion’s share of American inventors are black. Almost 74%, with whites contributing only 15%.

What about “White Inventors?” Surely Google would yield “relevant” results:

This search yields 29 results featuring individuals:

White Inventors

20 of them are black

8 of them are white

1 is Asian

That’s 69% black and 28% white. There are two images that don’t feature humans, and they focus on black inventions.

What if we conduct a search for “Black Inventors?”

Surprise! We’re treated to a line of products featuring black inventors, obviously in order to support black businesses. Beneath that, every single one of the images features black inventors; there’s not a single white or Asian person shown, and it doesn’t seem to matter how far down we scroll.

“Asian Inventors” and “Hispanic Inventors” yield similar results; Only Asians, or Hispanics, appear in the results – but no businesses or products are featured.

The message is clear: Google, like the rest of Corporate America, worships blacks and has nothing but disdain for whites. Other minorities are respected, but not financially supported. When Hispanics and Asians learn to riot effectively, this might change.

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Male to Female Surgery to Include Brain Reduction

Posted on January 12, 2022 by jewamongyou

Currently, 17 US states will legally change a person’s gender, on his birth certificate – but only with documentation that gender-reassignment surgery has been performed. For example:

Does the state allow a gender marker change on birth certificates?

New Mexico: Yes, with a doctor’s letter “indicating that the sex of an individual born in this state has been changed by surgical procedure.” See N.M. Stat. Ann. § 24-14-25(D) at http://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2011/chapter24/article14/section24-14-25

Until now, the only required surgery was on the genitals, with secondary surgeries deemed optional. But new research has prompted some lawmakers to expand surgical requirements. More specifically, Richard Lynn’s Sex Differences in Intelligence:

Yet the male brain is on average 12 percent larger than the female brain, in both newborns and adults. Recent studies using in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indicate that brain size has a correlation of between .31 and .43 with intelligence. The identical or near-identical IQ averages by sex were therefore a puzzle.

Arthur Jensen hypothesized that men and women might have the same number of neurons, with those of women more densely packed. However, subsequent research has shown that the male advantage in neurons is even greater than in brain weight: 16 percent, or the equivalent of four billion neurons.

The solution to the puzzle is to control for age. Most mental testing is done on school-age children, and Prof. Lynn’s research confirms that sex differences in this group are slight. However, neurological studies show that white matter in the brain continues to grow more in males than in females after mid-adolescence. Beginning at about age 16, boys have a small IQ advantage over girls, and this gradually grows to four points or more as adults.

Several states are now requiring male-to-female individuals to certify that they’ve had 12% of their brains removed. For example, New Mexico:

New Mexico: Yes, with a doctor’s letter “indicating that the sex of an individual born in this state has been changed by surgical procedure. This procedure must include genital reassignment, and the removal of no less than 12% of the brain for male to female.” See N.M. Stat. Ann. § 24-14-25(D) at http://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2011/chapter24/article14/section24-14-25

I find it interesting that nobody seems to be talking about FEMALE to MALE individuals. This is probably because science has not yet advanced to the point where we can ADD 12% to a brain. I would suggest freezing the portions removed from the male-to-female patients, until we’re able to transplant them into female-to-male patients.

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Why is NPR Losing “Hosts of Color?”

Posted on January 11, 2022 by jewamongyou

A headline from The Wrap tells us:

Audie Cornish Joins CNN+ Amid Exodus of Nonwhite Hosts From NPR

CNN announced that former NPR host Audie Cornish is joining its forthcoming streamer and and existing podcast network Monday, just days after her NPR exit raised eyebrows…

Cornish announced her exit from “All Things Considered,” which she co-hosted since 2012, last Tuesday. Her exit promped a flurry of online chatter and headlines revolving around the fact that numerous Black hosts and hosts of color have been walking away from the public radio behemoth. She was preceded in her departure by “Weekend Edition Sunday” host Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, who moved to the New York Times in September, “Morning Edition” host Noel King, who headed to Vox Media in November, and former “1A” host Joshua Johnson, who landed at MSNBC.

“If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take,” tweeted “All Things Considered” co-host Ari Shapiro last week.

A representative for NPR did not immediately return a request for comment on the mini-exodus…

I can’t speak for all POC – but I want to be clear. I do not have to. Our experiences at the company vary and there are some common threads. A number of people have been waving their hands in the air trying to draw attention to them…

There have been many many times when I was the only person of color ‘on the campaign bus’ ‘at the press conference’ ‘at the table’ ‘on the sunday show’ and all that entails. [Over] the years that has changed and for the better! There are many amazing talented black and brown people in front of the camera/mic, in high profile gigs, are executives and more. The flipside is that plenty of voices are speaking out about the work that still needs to be done…

Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any accusations of racism directed against Cornish at NPR. On the contrary, she claims that:

I am leaving of my own accord with no malice or resentment. I have had a great run with a company full of people I respect and admire. And I am ready to try something new.

If so, then what exactly is the “common thread,” what is “the crisis,” and what “work still needs to be done?”

Luckily, Cornish does answer this question, by pointing out that:

There have been many many times when I was the only person of color on the campaign bus, at the press conference at the table etc.

This sounds a lot like a complaint that there weren’t enough non-whites at NPR – In other words, there were too many whites.

Too many whites in an organization where the average salary for a host (she was a host) is $52,000/year – when she was making almost $70,000/year.

What does the average CNN host make? The typical CNN anchor salary is over $101,000/year. Some make several million a year. Given Cornish’s experience, it’s safe to assume that she’ll be making a lot more at CNN than she could ever hope to make at NPR.

I don’t listen to NPR, and it’s perfectly possible that Cornish is worth every penny that she’s paid – but why the “exodus of hosts of color” from NPR?

The answer is in the story above. If it’s considered a “crisis” that too many “hosts of color” are leaving a network, that means that there’s a premium on them. Aside from whatever skills they may bring to the table, they have additional value simply by being “hosts of color.” If this were not the case, there would be no story.

The Cult of Diversity has created a situation where “hosts of color” have more value than white hosts. As a result, these “hosts of color” are in more demand. It’s simple supply and demand. Once there’s more demand for “hosts of color,” then networks will be willing to pay more for them, assuming they’re otherwise effective of course.

But NPR can only pay so much, and CNN seems to have deeper pockets. Not surprisingly, the “hosts of color” drift to where the money is.

NPR is a woke organization, and it helped create the market distortion that it now “suffers” from. This is how it appears to me, and it would be interesting to get a more inside perspective on this matter; I could be wrong.

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It’s a Woke World

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jewamongyou

Somehow I forgot to share this video with y’all, so better late than never. The video might not be embedded on your browser. If not, simply click the “open site in new window” button at the bottom. Enjoy!

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Air China Apologizes for Trying to Protect its Customers

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jewamongyou

This is old news, going back to 2016, but it’s still interesting to see a Communist organization trying to do the right thing, and then backing down after being rebuked by more “civilized” countries – countries that care more about Political Correctness than the safety of travelers.

From NPR:

Air China has apologized for a story in its in-flight magazine that told would-be visitors to London that “precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people.”

China’s flagship airline has removed copies of the magazine, Wings of China, from its planes, The Associated Press reports. The airline tells the AP it has instructed the magazine’s publishers to “strengthen their content review and avoid making similar mistakes.”

Air China North America also tweeted out an apology, describing the text as “offensive language” — then deleted the tweet.

Perusing the various articles about this incident, I saw a lot of outrage. What I didn’t see was any attempt to explain WHY this warning was given in the first place, and HOW this negative impression of London’s darker populations came to be formed. Instead, journalists default to the lazy position that it’s simply a matter of not liking dark skin, and they likened it to the famous Chinese laundry detergent commercial.

It’s true that the Chinese generally do not like dark skin, but clearly this is not the reason Air China chose to issue its warning.

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Isaiah Davis’ Life Didn’t Matter to BLM

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jewamongyou

If losing one’s child isn’t the worst emotional pain a person can suffer, it’s at least near the top of the list. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody.

I’d like to point out that the religion of BLM did nothing to save the life of black teenager Isaiah Davis. The tenets of the religion of BLM were actually instrumental in his untimely death. From The Sun Times:

Faheem Norwood, 34, was arrested Dec. 31 and charged with first-degree murder in Davis’ death, according to Cook County prosecutors and Harvey police. He appeared in court Jan. 1 and was ordered held without bail…

According to prosecutors, Norwood shot Davis on Oct. 28 and then tried to cover up the murder by setting the teen’s body on fire. They were in a home in Burnham when Norwood pointed a gun at Davis and asked, “Would you take one for your boys” before pulling the trigger…

At the time, Norwood was on parole for a charge related to the Oct. 24, 2010 robbery and murders of Donysha Stovall, 28, Shaquill Davis, 16, Clarisma Torry, 10, and the attempted murder of a 4-year-old, police said.

He was found not guilty of murder, but was imprisoned on other related charges.

Bell said Norwood should have never been allowed to walk out of prison, given his criminal history. “He should have never been able to walk the streets ever, after all of that,” Bell said. “My son would still be alive.”

The victim:

Harvey police say work of shooting victim's mother helped lead to arrest in case - Chicago Tribune

The suspect:

Mother tracked down man charged with fatally shooting her teenage son in Burnham

The mother, Leslie Bell, conducted her own investigation, which ultimately led to the arrest of her son’s (alleged) murderer. If she’s reading this, I extend to her my sincerest condolences, and my admiration for her work in bringing her son’s killer (hopefully) to justice.

We don’t know Ms. Bell’s politics, and it would be presumptuous to guess. If she’s in the habit of voting Democrat, then I would urge her to rethink this; this is a perfect example of how Democrat/BLM policies hurt blacks.

Grief can be converted into courage and strength. Ms. Bell, if you’re reading this, use this courage and strength to advocate for law and order in our large cities, especially among your own people. Get politically involved and inspire people to work for change – not “Obama change,” but REAL change. Only then can there be real hope.

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Fedex’s Diversity Policy in Action Pt. 2

Posted on January 6, 2022 by jewamongyou

A while back, I pointed out that Fedex gives priority to minority-owned businesses for the subcontracting. I wrote:

Fedex is keen on using only Diverse subcontractors. On its “Supplier Diversity” page, Fedex boasts…

$2.6 billion spent with women-owned and minority-owned companies in FY20.

Fedex partners with several POC advocacy organizations, including “National Minority Supplier Development Council,” “TriState Minority Supplier Development Council,” and “Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC).” In order to be a Fedex subcontractor, one must fill out an application, which asks whether your company is “minority-owned.” This is a priority for Fedex.

Therefore, it should come as no surprise that three recent suspects, in the dumping of thousands of dollars of packages, are also non-whites. This is the inevitable result of Fedex’s Diversity policies. From Newsweek:

Hundreds of Dumped Packages Lead to Arrests of 3rd-Party Amazon Drivers in Major Theft Ring

Three people, including two who are believed to be third-party Amazon drivers, were arrested after officers found thousands of dollars of stolen products.

Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to an area of Oklahoma City for a complaint about illegal dumping. Deputies found 600 empty Amazon packages, worth more than $15,000, and a receipt from a local store led them to a home with thousands of undelivered Amazon packages.

The packages, according to the sheriff’s office, were being stored in almost every room and “filled the storm shelter.” Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III categorized the operation as a “major Amazon theft ring” and said in a news conference that officers believe Cesar Yasnier Cerqueira Rojas was loading extra products onto the truck to take home to sell.

Rojas, Dinneris Matos Delgado and Maikel Perez Laurencio were arrested on the scene and charged with 15 felony counts of possession of stolen property and embezzlement. Rojas was working as a third-party driver for Amazon and using Delgado’s truck, according to police. Laurencio reportedly was working as a third-party driver as well.

Both Rojas and Laurencio are undocumented immigrants, according to the sheriff’s office. However, officers are still working to verify their identities and are not certain their identifications are authentic.

amazon oklahoma amazon package theft

Diversity policies, such as the ones at Fedex, are chipping away at our civilization, compromising the quality of products and services, increasing our taxes (it costs money to investigate and prosecute such cases), promoting corruption and encouraging nepotism, which is endemic in third-world countries.

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The Jewish History of Sosua

Posted on January 5, 2022 by jewamongyou

Not far from where I live is a place called Sosua. It’s a thriving, touristy and picturesque area, with a reputation for licentiousness – at least in the past…

But going back a bit further, we find that Sosua was the epicenter of Jewish life in this part of Dominican Republic. During WWII, when most countries shut their doors to European Jewish refugees, Dominican Republic welcomed them:

In the late 1930s, few countries were willing to accept Jewish refugees. One nation—the Dominican Republic—opened its doors. Working with the Dominican government, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided passage and support to establish a small agricultural settlement in Sosúa—an abandoned banana plantation on the northeastern shore of the Dominican Republic. Jewish settlers built a community that still exists today.

Created in cooperation with the Sosúa Jewish Museum, this bilingual exhibition (in English and Spanish) showed how settlers were recruited, how they came to Sosúa, what awaited them there, how the settlement grew, and the evolution of this small Jewish community.

It seems that there were more men among the settlers than women, so some of the Jewish men ended up marrying local women. I met an Israeli here who said he met the daughter of one such couple a few years ago. I tried to arrange a meeting with her, but the Israeli never followed up, and he’d met her a few years ago, when she was already in her 80s.

A couple of days ago, I visited Sosua, and was fortunate enough to meet an English-speaking local. He showed me some various signs of the Jewish connection, which I photographed for your benefit:

Wall art. The Hebrew reads “I love Sosua*.”
The synagogue/Jewish musuem

The Synagogue/Jewish museum were supposed to be open when I was there, but it was closed, so all I could do was photograph the outside.

I’m told there’s a kosher restaurant in Puerto Plata. Stay tuned for a report on that.

*Interestingly, the Hebrew word for “love” is in the male gender.

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Is “Light-Skinned” a New Euphemism for Black Criminal?

Posted on January 2, 2022 by jewamongyou

Another “random attack” from NBC News:

A man was killed after he was pushed “into an oncoming train, without provocation,” police in San Diego said Saturday, as a homicide investigation was launched…

Detectives have learned that both the man and the suspect had just exited the southbound trolley at the city’s Old Town Trolley Station “and were walking on the platform when the suspect pushed the male into an oncoming train, without provocation,” police said…

The suspect, who has been described as a light skinned male, 5’7” to 5’9” with a thin build, was wearing all black clothing when they fled the scene on foot, police said.  

The victim, whose identity was not released, was described “a white male in his 60’s.”

Apparently, it goes without saying that the perpetrators of such crimes are black, and the only additional information we need is his specific skin color.

Note: There’s a remote possibility that I’m wrong about this, and that this is simply a knee-jerk reaction from me, based on so many previous media deceptions. If this turns out to be the case, I’ll remove this post. Let’s wait and see…

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Benefits of Diversity? Too Many Clicks!

Posted on January 1, 2022 by jewamongyou

An MSN article (the Inc.com article requires an account to read) by a Diversity Hire (Sonia Thompson) complains that the term “Diversity Hire” is demeaning:

It’s Time To Retire the Term ‘Diversity Hire’

Any time you bring in more diverse talent, the goal and messaging should focus on how the new team members will help your organization be better…

But building a diverse team doesn’t automatically guarantee that you will reap the benefits of one. You need to cultivate an environment that makes it ripe for everyone on your team to thrive, especially those who are part of underrepresented groups.

A simple way to start laying the foundation for that inclusive environment where everyone feels like they belong is getting rid of the term diversity hire…

There is a negative stigma asociated with it. Whether said out loud or not, people who are perceived to be diversity hires are often treated differently by both their peers and others within the organization. People assume this talent was hired, not because of their merit, but because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or other criteria. Others assume that standards were lowered to make it possible for diverse candidates to meet job requirements. Thus people labled diversity hires are often resented, rather than respected.

That’s correct Sonia, this is EXACTLY how you are perceived, and for good reason. The moment a company prioritizes “Diverse hiring” there will be incentives to hire based on Diversity, and penalties for failing to do so. We’ve seen this over and over again, and only the willfully ignorant are unaware of this.

… and now, to add insult to injury, we’re being told it’s forbidden to even use accurate terminology for this phenomenon. How Orwellian of you Sonia!

But I’m not here to talk about something I’ve already discussed countless times. What’s most interesting about this article is the claim that “Diverse” companies make more money. The article doesn’t actually present evidence of this. Instead, it links to it:

This is good news. Not only will it better equip you to authentically serve a broader group of customers, but data shows that diverse teams outperform their peers from a financial standpoint.

Let’s follow that link, shall we?

It takes us to an article from Inc.com, whose heading is:

Want to Outperform Your Peers? A Study of 366 Companies Says Do This 1 Thing

Emerging trends also indicate not doing it will soon be a liability for your company.

In 2015, consulting firm McKinsey published their research of 366 public companies and thousands of executives in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Latin America. Their statistically significant findings showed a clear relationship between a more diverse leadership team and better financial performance.

Specifically, their data showed companies in the top 25 percent of racial and ethnic diversity were 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their industry norm. Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15 percent more likely to have greater than average returns.

The article goes on to list the ways your company could suffer if it fails to hire based on Diversity. Interestingly, the risk of discrimination lawsuits is not featured on the list. It also fails to mention government penalties for a lack of Diversity. For example, this recent demand by the Congressional Black Caucus.

Following the link in the article takes us to yet another Inc.com article, with the heading:

Your Business Growth Will Stall if Your Culture Doesn’t Support Diversity and Inclusion

It goes on to make the same claim, and throws in a few examples, but no actual study…

It does, however, contain a LINK to a study:

As a company making decisions about where allocate precious resources and how to create the most value under serious constraints, a short-term hit is hard to swallow. But the data says that diversity does positively impact team performance…

Following the link, we’re taken to yet another Inc.com article with the heading:

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The whole affair is like Russian dolls, and it does look like Inc.com is actually a click mill, where each click represents profits. As for the company that did the one available study in the first place, McKinsey & Co., it appears to be a legitimate company, but their conclusions are open to interpretation.

I’d like to see more details on the study, and I’d like to know if it takes discrimination lawsuits and government coercion into account – because otherwise, it’s a circular argument.

On the one hand, they’re penalizing companies that are “too white” through lawsuits, government penalties and boycotts, which will obviously take a financial toll on “non-Diverse” companies – and then they turn around and tell us that Diversity is important, because you’ll make less money without it. It’s a lot like the mafia sending thugs to your shop, and then offering to protect you for the right price. “Nice business you’ve got there… it’d be a shame if anything happened to it. Hire some Diversity, and we’ll protect you.”

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