I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired. - by Zac Kriegman

I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired. - by Zac Kriegman

• The data about police shootings just didn't add up, but no one at Thomson Reuters wanted to hear it.

"...by now you have surely noticed a trend: workplaces—in some cases, storied institutions—that turn hostile to independent thinking seemingly overnight.

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  That’s what Paul Rossi experienced at Grace Church School. 
• It’s what Jennifer Sey went through at Levi’s. 
• It’s what Antonio García Martínez dealt with at Apple. 
• And Roland Fryer at Harvard. And Gordon Klein at UCLA. 
• And Maud Maron at Legal Aid.
• Now comes the story of Zac Kriegman, who, until not so long ago, was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters. Kriegman’s crime? Questioning the Black Lives Matter narrative.

"...About a year ago, I stumbled on a really big story. It was about black Americans being gunned down across the country and the ways in which we report on that violence. We had been talking nonstop about race and police brutality, and I thought: This is a story that could save lives. This is a story that has to be told.
But when I shared the story with my coworkers, my boss chastised me, telling me expressing this opinion could limit my ability to take on leadership roles within the company. Then I was maligned by my colleagues. And then I was fired..."