We conducted a good faith and thorough investigation that included gathering relevant information and multiple interviews, and took action in line with those values. The company did more than simply react to the photo. Shor was fired after tweeting out some research that supported the idea that “race riots” wind up hurting the Democratic Party, an idea that many progressives find offensive.
On May 28, David Shor, a political data analyst, sent a controversial tweet. While we are not able to reveal the full circumstances surrounding our investigation, we stand by our decision and will not be commenting any further.What the #MeToo movement and modern feminism did to those wrongly accused of sexism and sexual assault, the current anti-racism movement is doing to those wrongly accused of racism.Another casualty of this rush-to-judgment era was David Shor, who was fired after sharing the findings of a study (conducted by someone else – who is black – and published in a prestigious political-science journal) that showed violent riots decrease Democrat turnout. David Shor, an analyst at Democratic polling firm Civis Analytics, tweeted a study that concluded, "race riots reduced Democratic vote share." Cafferty was driving home from his then-job at San Diego Gas & Electric company in a white company truck. And maybe also suggesting between the lines that Black people shouldn't protest at all. One of the more egregious recent examples of left-wing illiberalism is the firing of David Shor, a data analyst at the progressive consulting firm Civis Analytics. Within a week, he was fired. Do it!” Cafferty told Mounk he didn’t know what the man meant so he held up the “okay” sign like the other driver was doing.“When I pressed Civis for evidence that Shor had been, despite appearances, fired for wrongdoing unrelated to his tweet, the company asked me to publish a new statement. Earlier this month, Jonathan Chait wrote a piece about the firing of a progressive data analyst named David Shor. An SDG&E spokesperson wouldn’t answer Mounk’s specific questions and instead provided a vague statement:First, these incidents damage the lives of innocent people without achieving any noble purpose.Two hours later, Cafferty was informed by his supervisor that he had been seen flashing a white-supremacist hand gesture and was suspended. Mounk wrote that Shor’s company denied the firing was related to the tweet. At the next light, the man held up his phone toward Cafferty and shouted at him to “Do it! It's a problem if one is always or automatically accused of bad faith; and if the accusation is based on political partisanship.I can only try to work backwards from this *conclusion and assume that the people who demanded and/or carried out his firing thought that he had acted in bad faith. But sources in the firm indicated that was the reason, he wrote. ]I found the David Shor firing an interesting case that might deserve more analysis.He was "fired for tweeting research findings that were taken to suggest the post-Floyd riots could harm Democratic electoral interests."So the chilling effect seems to hinge on subjectivity and suspicion of bad faith. I found the David Shor firing an interesting case that might deserve more analysis. He had his arm hanging out the window as he drove and was flipped off by another driver when he stopped at a red light.
It was almost identical to the original, but it omitted the first sentence asserting that Civis would never terminate employees for tweeting academic papers,” Mounk wrote.Cafferty told Mounk that SDG&E didn’t present any evidence he was a racist or that he even knew that the “okay” hand gesture was a symbol of white supremacy, yet he was fired. Mounk detailed the case of Emmanuel Cafferty, a man whose mother is Latina and whose father has Mexican and Irish ancestry, who was accused of being a white supremacist.
Multiple factors led to the decision to terminate. Soon after George Floyd’s death, alongside peaceful mass protests there was a substantial amount of looting and vandalism in Minneapolis and a few other cities. That's what happened in the case of David Shor, as reported by Vox. Another casualty of this rush-to-judgment era was David Shor, who was fired after sharing the findings of a study (conducted by someone else – who is black – and published in a prestigious political-science journal) that showed violent riots decrease Democrat turnout.