BLM: The Revolution Will Not Be Criticized with Zac Kriegman (S3 Ep.22)

Conversations with Coleman

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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My guest today is Zac Kriegman. Zach was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters before he got fired for posting a fact-based criticism of Black Lives Matter in an internal memo. This is one of the worst examples of Cancel Culture and enforced orthodoxy around the issue of race that I've seen in a while. Zach was fired for pointing to research by Roland Fryer who I just had on the podcast, and others, which showed that there was no anti-black bias in police shootings as well as that DOJ investigations into police departments in certain cases caused an increase in homicides due to the police pulling back. Now as a director of data science at a major media company that has a respected fact-checking wing, part of Zac's job was to ensure that Thomson Reuters was using data accurately and he got fired for doing exactly that. Now he's suing Reuters for wrongful termination. In the meantime, Zac has a substack, where he has posted the memo which got him fired, as well as some other essays. You should definitely go check that out. In this conversation, we talk about the circumstances surrounding his firing and we primarily speak on the substantive issue of BLM and the effect it has had on policing and crime. I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope you do too. -Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code [20COLEMAN] at Manscaped.com. That’s 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com and use code [20COLEMAN]. -Sign up through wren.co/coleman to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! -Sign up today at butcherbox.com/COLEMAN to get two, 10 oz New York strip steaks and 8 oz of lobster claw and knuckle meat FREE in your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.6	Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Zach Kriegman.
1:09.5	Zach was a director of data science at Thompson Reuters before he got fired for posting a
1:14.4	fact-based criticism of Black Lives Matter in an internal memo.
1:18.3	This is one of the worst examples of cancel culture and enforced orthodoxy around the issue of
1:23.7	race that I've seen in a while.
1:26.1	Zach was fired for pointing to research by Roland Fryer, who I just had on the podcast, and
1:30.8	others, which showed that there was no anti-black bias in police shootings, as well as that
1:35.7	DOJ investigations into police departments in certain cases cause an increase in homicides due
1:42.1	to the police pulling back.
1:45.7	Now, as a director of data science at a major media company that has a respected fact-checking wing, part of his job
1:51.8	was to ensure that Thompson Reuters was using data accurately, and he got fired for doing exactly
1:58.9	that. Now he's suing Reuters for wrongful termination,
2:03.4	and in the meantime, he has a substack where he has posted the memo which got him
2:07.7	fired as well as some other essays.
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