thought police

This 21:09 minute video debate has been republished from Attack on Freedom of Speech (19/4/19) | PressTV (but see note below - Ed).

This edition of The Debate, Press TV hosts discussions about Google's denial of access to Press TV's YouTube and Gmail services. Brecht Jonkers, historian and journalist, and Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York, exchange views about freedom of speech.

Note: Unfortunately, we can't make the embedding of this video work. So please follow this link or click on the image to watch the debate on PressTV. - JS

James Damore was the man who sent a memo in Google in which he suggested that maybe the low participation of women in tech areas was because women in general had less desire to work in those areas. For this he was sacked.

Now for purposes of this article I am not so interested in whether he was right or wrong. I am interested in how he was treated. I think how James was treated in this matter reflects a far deeper malaise within our culture; that malaise is a lack of love and concern for others. If we really want to create a better society, with less conflict, hatred and violence, then we really need to consider deeply why people are punished and to what end.