NOW WE KNOW THE TRUTH – AT 8:02 A.M. ET:  The truth about Google has come out.  We knew all along.  From College Fix: 

A professor from UCLA and the University of Southern California recently told an audience to “stop telling students to Google things” … because the search engine behemoth is racially biased.

Such is the topic of Safiya Noble’s new book, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.” Noble was the keynote speaker for the “Year of Data” conference held at Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities on Thursday.

Noble said that in her previous career she had assisted clients to “get better representation” in Google search results, and as such knows how the game is played, so to speak.  According to The Daily Princetonian, Noble said “corporations who pay the most money secure appearance on the first page, and thus those corporations gain the most prominent representation.”

She believes her research “fill[ed] a void” in the conversation regarding “the politics and power systems embedded in different kinds of platforms.”

“[T]here weren’t people who were centering around black women or vulnerable people at the epicenter of the questions they might ask,” she said. “Of course that was leading them to look for different kinds of evidence, or it precluded their ability to see evidence [of racism] that was everywhere.”

COMMENT:  Stuff like this isn't a joke anymore.  The future of this country depends heavily on its educational system, and especially its great research universities.  These places are becoming, increasingly, sandboxes filled with kooks and trivia hunters.  Words like "racism" are thrown around so loosely they have lost their power.

There is certainly racism, but that is far from the American story.  Unless we tell that story to the next generation, we are doomed.

December 10,  2018