Amazon has long been notorious for its harsh anti-union practices and the working conditions that prevail in its warehouses. Its latest achievement? According to an internal company document that leaked, it uses artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze data from its warehouses and give each of its facilities a score on how likely it is to be prone to union activities. A screen displays the warehouses on a heat map, with the most “dangerous” ones shown as the “hottest.” Every good little manager dreams of such an application. And hopefully, artificial intelligence will only be used for the timely diagnosis of cancers and to save the planet.
An additional interesting element is that the company also calculates a “diversity index” for each store. And the results of its analysis showed that stores with higher scores on this index also had lower risk scores regarding the likelihood of union organization. Various nonsense articles were written about this finding, such as that multiculturalism itself constitutes some kind of sinister tool of the “globalizers”.
In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what one might think. The purpose of Amazon and any Amazon-like entity is not to promote some innocent multiculturalism, but to step on any existing racial tensions and deepen them to the maximum extent, using various aerologies about inclusion and tolerance as a cover. When “anti-racist corporate activism” reaches such a point as to imply that any white person carries racism as a paternal sin (or, another random example, that Israel must permanently be in the position of the victim), reserving for blacks or Latinos a permanent role as barbarian Thomases, then some suspicions are rightly raised. Suspicions that racism is leaving through one door only to enter through the next. A racism in version 2.0, as useful as it is to those naive enough to think they are conducting some great battle in the name of some “identity.”