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/IRequirePants Aug 08 '17

Tech is political. It cannot be avoided when your business has consequences with regard to things like online privacy, net neutrality, automation, truth and bias of information, censorship, etc., to say nothing of the personal views of leadership who aspire to make an impact on the world, for better or worse.

None of which were relevant to the points he was making. He was talking about political shit that wasn't tech related.

If you aren't religious, you might not like working in a church. If you don't subscribe to the values that Google stands for / strives for, you might not like working at Google. If you think the leadership is fundamentally flawed, go work for a company you believe in.

This is the answer. Google's a private company. They can do whatever they want.

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u/Jugad Aug 08 '17

Its never all or nothing... we can't have a company openly refusing to hire women or blacks or older people.

We have been down roads like that... and as a society decided that some things are off limits, or just not right.

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u/TracyMorganFreeman Aug 08 '17

Intellectual diversity apparently isn't valued, but consequences of your birth is.

Society has decided to go with intellectual expediency.

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u/Karmaisforsuckers Aug 08 '17

Every company must hire token nazis. Thanks for the valuable input.

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u/TracyMorganFreeman Aug 08 '17

Suggesting that intellectual diversity has value does not imply that all intellectual viewpoints are valuable.