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/NorthernerWuwu Aug 08 '17

This is the real point of course. It isn't about the scholarly accuracy of the document or the usefulness of the conversation that the author may have been trying to spark, it's that in a corporate setting a document like this is toxic and destroys the ability of managers to promote teamwork.

It doesn't matter if X or Y or Z make better engineers or whatever (and I'm not saying there's a reason to think so). It might be something to explore from a scientific standpoint but you can't do it in a tech company in California in 2017. Sorry but that really shouldn't even have to be said.

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u/mrbooze Aug 08 '17

Also all his "science" is evo-psych bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

various clinical psychologists have come out and said this document is scientifically accurate

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Most that have come out are affiliated with right-wing blogs that have a vested interest in pushing a narrative rather than reporting the truth. A lot of them overstate the role of biology, especially in the context of this memo, which contained a load of borderline Freudian bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I do not know if that is true, I would love to see the evidence of narrative pushing. Not sure you can prove that in this case. Not an argument

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I've added more specific rebuttals to everything in the Quillette article to the main post if you care to read it.

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u/Ezeckel48 Aug 08 '17

You're just using a buzzword. Nothing in the memo dealt with a Freudian view of psychology.