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Zac Kriegman
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Zac Kriegman's personal blog at kriegman.substack.com covers data, politics and career. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Reuters Data Scientist: The post that led to my termination”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zac Kriegman's Substack posts about his firing from Thomson Reuters after an internal email questioning the BLM narrative, and about race and police shootings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
anything I feel like writing about.
Most-linked posts?
- Reuters Data Scientist: The post that led to my termination4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-01-06
- /p/email-for-which-i-was-fired2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
What Hacker News says?
> Only in liberal blue NYC does a black shooter get taken into custody, elsewhere they get shot by cops. White shooters are always getting coddled and taken in alive by LEOs I'm afraid you're simply mistaken. Adjusted for rate of violent crime [1], police use of lethal force is similar for both whites and blacks [2]. But I understand why you think so - the journalist that dared honestly report this got fired for it.…
Comment linking /p/post-leading-to-termination-blm-falsehoods
on “Amazon’s Twitch, Discord, 4chan face New York AG probe after Buffalo shooting”Submitted Reuters Data Scientist: The post that led to my termination as a story · 49 points
HN discussionAnd the Email he sent: https://kriegman.substack.com/p/email-for-which-i-was-fired > Action became more urgent when Thomson Reuters began to inject pro-BLM political propaganda into the workplace through a series of official company events that invited BLM activists to the company, where they proceeded to spread some of the very falsehoods that have so devastated disadvantaged black communities. Yeah, sending an uns…
Comment linking /p/email-for-which-i-was-fired
on “Reuters data scientist questioned the BLM narrative–so the company fired him”For those wanting more context, here is the post that got him fired: https://kriegman.substack.com/p/post-leading-to-termination-... > Unfortunately, over the past few years I have grown more and more concerned about the damage that the movement is doing to many low income black communities. I have avidly followed the research on the movement and its impacts, which has led me, inexorably, to the conclusion that the…
Comment linking /p/post-leading-to-termination-blm-falsehoods
on “Reuters data scientist questioned the BLM narrative–so the company fired him”Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29823289 And also a dishonest portrayal of the chain of events: He was sent to Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion for the chance to reform his thoughts. He refused—so they fired him. There was a bit more to the story than that, unfortunately. First he published a dubiously argued 12,000-word "rant" (using the article's own term). True, he may have been unfairly attac…
Comment linking /p/email-for-which-i-was-fired
on “BLM, Thomson Reuters, and the Price of Dissent”I think you should take a look at this [0]. It goes deep into the academic literature on police shootings, so it's not exactly a short read. The author writes in good faith, and exerted considerable effort to substantiate his points. In short, there appears to be a trend of police shootings tending towards white offenders, while non-lethal confrontations are more prevalent during encounters with black offenders. [0]…
Comment linking /p/post-leading-to-termination-blm-falsehoods
on “Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols”