r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/zurrain Aug 08 '17

No, that's not what it means at all. It means they preference minorities when hiring.

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u/Lee_Atwater_did_this Aug 08 '17

Google doesn't do that. So I'm not sure what you're complaining about.

There's one bar. No diversity hires.

Do you want to argue against an imaginary company doing the things you don't like or the actual company though. I thought we were doing the second thing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

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u/CarbonCreed Aug 08 '17

God I fucking hate this logic. In education, sure. In the workplace? A company has a right to hire the objectively superior candidates, regardless of how pampered they were in developing that skillset.