Tag: SJW

Penguin Random House employees are not happy about publishing Jordan Peterson’s latest offense against coherence, the Christian faith, and the English language:

Several Penguin Random House Canada employees confronted management about the company’s decision to publish a new book by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson at an emotional town hall Monday, and dozens more have filed anonymous complaints, according to four workers who spoke to VICE World News. 

On Monday, Penguin Random House Canada, Canada’s largest book publisher and a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, announced it will be publishing Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Peterson, to be released in March 2021. The book will be published by Portfolio in the U.S. and Penguin Press in the U.K., both part of the Penguin Random House empire. 

Four Penguin Random House Canada employees, who did not want to be named due to concerns over their employment, said the company held a town hall about the book Monday, during which executives defended the decision to publish Peterson while employees cited their concerns about platforming someone who is popular in far-right circles. 

“He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him,” a junior employee who is a member of the LGBTQ community and who attended the town hall told VICE World News. 

Another employee said “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend. 

I have to admit, I am genuinely curious to learn what sort of morons are going to take seriously anything that the sleepless, tear-stained, drug-addicted occultist says anymore. 

More balance! Less order! Descend into chaos to rise above it! But not meth… definitely not meth! Where are my pills? I NEED MY DAMN PILLS!

UPDATE: The Original Cyberpunk informs us that the great consolidation in publishing continues apace. Formerly the Big Six, the Big Five are now the Big Four.

Breaking publishing industry news: Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, has just acquired Simon & Schuster. If it was me I’d call the consolidated company Simon & Schuster & Penguins Oh My!, but what this means is that there is now one less major fiction publisher in the world.

What a great day to be independent! I will be vastly amused if my old editor ends up in charge.

That’s the word from ex-DC illustrator Ethan van Sciver, anyhow:

It’s claimed that DC Comics will close down as we know it by June 2021, according to information provided to Ethan Van Sciver, a twenty-seven year veteran of the comic book industry who also recently said Jim Lee will be leaving the company.

Van Sciver, known for working on DC’s Green Lantern with Geoff Johns (who recently announced he is publishing a creator-owned comic book at Image Comics and not with DC) claims an insider filled him in AT&T has plans to close down DC Comics publishing by June.

Van Sciver says that while the publishing of comic books will end, the popular characters such as Batman, Superman, etc. will live on in the form of movies, TV shows, and video games, which make money for AT&T while the comics do not.

“Comic books themselves have fallen into the hands of extremely irresponsible people in editorial and in publishing who have taken comics and turned them from a good, fun pastime, escapist fantasy into identity, political, evil, poisonous pamphlets that insult their own readers,” says Van Sciver on his ComicsArtistPro Secrets YouTube channel. “AT&T fired a BIG portion of their editorial staff in April and just this week they fired the rest of them, essentially. We understand from sources at this point that there are no editors at DC Comics anymore. There are the people who just used to get coffee, interns, people who aren’t making very much, people who are going to be running the company until it ends.”

Van Sciver continues, “I received a tip, by the way, an unverifiable tip, I gotta say, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but they are saying DC Comics will close down publishing paper comics in June of 2021. I think they just solicited March’s comics, and I guess that, if this is true, that’s going to be it.”

June 2021 is almost perfect timing in light of Arkhaven’s plans to launch a major new comics platform next spring. 2021 promises to be a very interesting year on the comics front.

There is an all-hands-on-deck meeting taking place at DC Comics today, with those who are remaining. There will have to be a lot of job changes – even though with all the NDAs, no one can actually talk about their lost jobs or their new jobs publicly for some time. People can’t even update their LinkedIn accounts without losing their redundancy payments.

Daniel Cherry III, newly appointed DC Comics General Manager, is doing exactly what he was brought in to DC by Warner Bros President Pamela Lifford to do, to calculate corporate downsizing, assess minimum requirements, fire the highest paid people, promote the juniors with small raises, imply “you’re lucky to still have a job in this economy” and cut freelance rates and commitments.

Dark Herald has more at Arkhaven about the Red Honeymoon:

The Red Wedding massacre at DC Comics was three months ago and it was pretty brutal.  

A few of the more overly optimistic comics fans thought it was going to be the start of a turnaround, where DC would abandon its pursuit of all things Woke and go back to sensible basics.  Others thought that it was the start of a focus on graphic novels and Young Adult engagement in the hopes of attracting Zoomer’s interest in DC’s characters.

Then Daniel Cherry III was brought over from Blizzard, and far from promising an end to Wokeness, promised to make things even more Evolved.  However, it turns out he had a different mission. 

Meanwhile, Arkhaven has just reached an agreement with an international publisher that will effectively double our existing library. But we can’t talk about it yet….

All you have to do is understand that SJWs ALWAYS lie, and oftentimes their lies are based on projection:

Do you know why so many Democrats accuse Trump of being a Russian asset?

BECAUSE THEY’RE ALL CHINESE ASSETS.

Precisely. Their accusations always tell you where to start looking.

The blog is suddenly getting hit today by hundreds of spam comments. It’s a clear indication that the Hunter Biden incest and corruption scandal is squarely over the target. Fortunately, we’re already on full moderation lockdown, so most of the comments are going directly to spam.

It’s becoming more and more obvious that in the eyes of the terrified global pedocracy, Qanon is the real pandemic:

Europe’s domestic intelligence and law-enforcement services have apprehensively watched the QAnon conspiracy theory migrate from the US and now consider it a significant security concern.

That assessment was given by two security officials contacted by Insider, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity given the nature of their work.

QAnon advocates claim that the US is secretly controlled by a cabal of politicians, celebrities, and media figures who engage in child abuse and pedophilia and that President Donald Trump will eventually move against these people. Its believers seek clues from an unknown government insider known as Q. There is no evidence to support the theory, and none of its foretold reckonings have taken place.

Now what could they possibly be apprehensive about? As for the statement that none of its foretold reckonings have taken place…. 

Coinbase is successfully excising its SJW employees:

More than 60 Coinbase employees have taken an exit package after CEO Brian Armstrong said in a controversial blog post last month that the company would not participate in social activism. 60 employees or 5{5c1a0fb425e4d1363f644252322efd648e1c42835b2836cd8f67071ddd0ad0e3} of Coinbase’s workforce, have taken the deal, Armstrong said Thursday, and a number of conversations are still ongoing, meaning the final number could be higher. The discussion around Coinbase’s politics started internally this summer when the company didn’t release a statement supporting Black Lives Matter, causing a virtual walkout among employees, Wired reported.

Allowing the inmates to run the asylum, as Google and the NBA do, is a certain path to corporate extinction. Don’t be surprised to see other companies not only following Coinbase’s example, but getting considerably more proactive about not permitting them to infest the organization in the first place. 

It’s not going to take long before there is a copious amount of conclusive evidence incontrovertibly proving that diversity, equality, and inclusion are objectively bad for business. And it won’t take much longer than that before agitating for those Satanic virtues becomes a firing offense.

These costs are difficult to quantify precisely, as fewer than five percent of the companies with diversity programs even attempt to calculate any sort of return on investment for them, and those that do use soft metrics that have nothing to do with profitability. Even attempting to determine what these costs are is frowned upon by scientists in the heavily converged fields of social science. Nevertheless, researchers have consistently found that there are statistical differences in both productivity and job attendance between various identity groups, and that a diverse workforce is a less efficient, less productive one….

A summary of the estimated effects of these four convergence-imposed costs on the corporation, based on anecdotal evidence as well as reviewing a number of published, peer-reviewed papers is as follows:

• 0.5 percent: time spent not working
• 12 to 30 percent: nonproductive employees
• 20 percent: reduced effectiveness of productive employees
• 5 percent: friction

It’s important to remember that these costs are stackable, so the net effect of corporate convergence is to reduce the company’s productivity by as much as 55 percent.

– from Corporate Cancer by Vox Day

One of the three members of Patreon’s executive board has publicly called for killing those who aren’t on board with corporate political activism:

Twitter’s former CEO Dick Costolo has set Twitter ablaze by suggesting that those who disagree with the push to inject political activism into the workplace will be “lined up against the wall and shot.”

“Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution. I’ll happily provide video commentary,” tweeted Costolo, who ran Twitter between 2010 and 2015.

Costolo was replying to a tweet related to how Coinbase’s CEO has decided to separate business from political activism and offer an exit package for those employees who feel they can’t work in a company that doesn’t want to be hindered by politics and activism, as so many other companies have been distracted by in recent times.

“We focus minimally on causes not directly related to the mission,” Armstrong wrote.

But Costolo wasn’t impressed. “This isn’t great leadership. It’s the abdication of leadership. It’s the equivalent of telling your employees to ‘shut up and dribble,’” Costolo wrote.

Silicon Valley is “extremely left-leaning” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once admitted and, more increasingly than ever, many employees are trying to inject their activistic politics into the culture of many companies.

Costolo’s tweet is incendiary, not only because it was made during a time of political violence, but also because of the vocalization of a growing sentiment of intolerance to others expressing their viewpoints and threats toward those who don’t want to see homogenization of thought across many industries.

In light of this statement, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Costolo was the inspiration behind Patreon’s remarkably self-destructive decision to breach the very contract it unilaterally imposed on its users by suing them in a group action.

Ironically, under Patreon’s own professed standards, Costolo should be banned from Patreon.

And the SJWs are panicked at the thought that other CEOs will follow the example set by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong:

It’s obvious what is motivating Armstrong. For years, activists concentrated in dead-weight departments like HR and advertising have assimilated functional, profitable companies into the left’s totalitarian borg. They demand racial hiring quotas, corporate censorship, and the propagation of sickening transgender propaganda.

Armstrong saw that a revolution like this was coming to his own company. According to Coindesk, “Armstrong began to plan for the company’s new position after several Coinbase engineers closed their laptops one day over the summer after Armstrong wouldn’t say ‘black lives matter’ externally amid social unrest over police killings of unarmed black men and women.”

Armstrong decided he wouldn’t be threatened. He’d heard the maxim “get woke, go broke” and bravely decided to quash the revolution before it happened. He didn’t pledge support for Donald Trump. He didn’t rename his company Coinbased. He merely said his company would abstain from politics, both publicly and in the workplace. But in 2020, even this is a revolutionary act, and Armstrong knows it. On Wednesday, he sent a follow-up letter to employees announcing that if any weren’t up for keeping politics and work separate, he’d pay them to go away. Six months of severance pay, it turns out, is a small price to purge far-left extremists from one’s company.

It is no wonder then that Armstrong’s defiant stand has the press and woke capital in a panic. It’s obvious that the vast majority of people, and in particular the vast majority of productive workers, prefer Armstrong’s corporate vision. They want to work at a business, not a gulag. If Armstrong can thrive while vocally rejecting the left’s political demands, then other corporate leaders will be emboldened to do the same.

While some people have theorized that Armstrong read Corporate Cancer, there is no reason to assume that’s the case. The connection between convergence and corporate losses is both obvious and undeniable – the NBA has lost 15.2 million viewers per Finals game, 77 percent of its TV audience, in the three years since 2017 – and Armstrong’s measures are very mild compared to those recommended in the book.

Imagine how terrified the reaction would be if corporations actually began eliminating their HR departments, hunting down their SJWs, and actively firing anyone who engaged in infracorporate activism in lieu of doing their jobs.

Q describes the mechanics of amplifying the Narrative and creating the appearance of a false majority view:

HOW DO YOU AMPLIFY A DESIRED THEME-NARRATIVE?

MSDNC controls what you see [digital echo].

Twitter – FB – GOOG control what you see and what trends [digital echo].

Hollywood [‘stars’] swarm to enforce [‘trend’ echo].

Blue checkmarks swarm to enforce [digital echo].

ANTIFA swarm to enforce [non_digital echo].

Rage and emotion follow by those indoctrinated [echo controlled].

Define ‘indoctrinate’.

to often repeat an idea or belief to someone in order to persuade them to accept it

Next: grab ‘rage & emotion’ [organized platform(s)] by indoctrinated and project as ‘majority’

Notice how this process aligns with the instant Narrative-shifting that I compared to a school of fish in SJWs Always Lie. The mechanics described here are how the professional large-scale version operates. It’s also why they need to control everything, because the intrinsic weakness of the Narrative – its falsity – renders it liable to being punctured at every step of the process by anyone.

This is why it is vital to not remain silent in the face of the enforcement, and to refuse to submit to it.