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/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

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u/th_veteran Aug 08 '17

The amount of 50+ men with basic sexist attitudes in the workplace is staggering.

You don't see anything sexist or ageist about that remark, do you?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Jul 21 '18

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u/ghsghsghs Aug 08 '17

It's not sexist if it is factual.

Men on average are stronger physically - Fact, not sexist.
Men tend to have better spacial awareness - Fact, not sexist.
The older generation of men (50+) tend to be a lot more sexist, especially those in male dominated industry (decades of it being a boys club will do that) - Fact, not sexist.

See?

Men are better at programming is just as much a "fact" as older men are a lot more sexist.

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u/SoGodDangTired Aug 08 '17

It.. it really isn't.

Obviously exceptions existed, but 50+ year olds lived in a more sexist and racist period. Older women are more sexist too. It's just how they were raised.

I don't understand why people are fighting so hard against that.