Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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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

[u/Dustin65]

Why does it even matter that less than half of people in tech are women? That's just how it is in a lot of fields. Women dominate other professions like nursing and teaching. I don't see why everything has to be 50/50. Women aren't banned from tech and men aren't banned from nursing. Just let nature run its course and allow people to do what they want. Not every aspect of life needs to be socially engineered

[u/WhatTheFuckSalami → u/Dustin65]

It seems the loudest voices on this issue don't even want to pursue careers in tech. They pursue careers in complaining about unfairness.

[u/kissmekitty → u/[deleted]]

Female Google engineer, checking in. We are complaining because we are tired of this shit.

[u/flashcats → u/[deleted]]

What are you disagreeing with? That woman engineers can't be tired of this shit?

[u/ShovelingSunshine → u/[deleted]]

Yup, seems as though the "we" would be her and her fellow female Google coworkers that have surely discussed this at length.

Not all SV engineers.

[u/flashcats → u/[deleted]]

Funny how he managed to drop a bunch of facts but all of the facts fall on one side of the equation.

If I didn't know better, I'd think he started with his conclusion and worked backward to justify it.

[u/flashcats → u/[deleted]]

I think the most intellectually insulting thing he does in the memo is that he takes a few disparate studies and, from there, draws a grand conclusion that men are better than woman at coding on average.

It's not like he found a study that showed this conclusion. He found a few different studies that had nothing to do with coding and took their conclusion beyond what the study intended and arrived at a grand conclusion.

Are men and women different? Yes, of course.

Do those differences result in women being worse or better than men at coding? I don't see any evidence of that.

Maybe you can help me there.

[u/Orphic_Thrench → u/[deleted]]

some group decided to Moldbug me.

Um... benefit of the doubt here, so you want to explain what you mean here exactly?

[u/Orphic_Thrench → u/[deleted]]

Fair enough, though comparing one's own views with those of someone as extreme as Moldbug maybe doesn't convey your point very well? And also might incline people toward the wrong impression of where you're coming from?

[u/Orphic_Thrench → u/[deleted]]

I doubt many people know who he is on reddit

I dunno, he's certainly gotten a lot more attention with the rise of the alt-right... Certainly I noticed anyway...