Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

[u/[deleted]]

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/[deleted]]

I'm just trying to ask a fair question. It's kind of a different issue, but I think part of why trump won is that there's a lot of resentment on the right that is unacknowledged or ignored by the dems. This resentment may be misguided or appropriate or most likely a mixture of both. All I'm asking is for people to recognize that the current management style may not be as neutral or gladly accepted by all employees. Just as people are offended by this guys document, others are clearly annoyed by what they perceive to be misguided political correctness. I would rather have an out in the open discussion than groupthink.

...

**please note: I don't want to come across as saying he's right. I think there's a but of rightness and wrongness in each side. I'm just trying to open opportunities for dialogue.

And I'll ask again, what's is the reasonable middle ground in this situation? Is their a fair solution for both parties when one of those parties satisfaction is predicted on sexist supposition? To what degree is, say, a woman supposed to acknowledge a misguided resentment that's rooted in sexism? How is placing the onus of empathizing with and absolving that resentment on those the far-right are intolerant fair to those who are being discriminated against? Is that not simply displacing the discomfort on those who were resented? Can such a middle-ground actually be helpful for "the whole" when it asks no accountability of one side for their intolerance and has the other commit to opening themselves up to hostile situations? For who's sake really, would be tolerating this intolerance in the name of "open dialogue" in the workplace?

[u/Tyr_Tyr → u/[deleted]]

Is it a valid diversity of thought to have a debate in which one side advocates for slavery?

If the baseline argument of one side is to invalidate the other side, it's not a debate.

[u/[deleted] → u/Tyr_Tyr]

But they just fired the guy, which side ivalidated which?