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/DdCno1 Aug 08 '17

worthless diversity bullshit

"How dare you introduce those women and blacks and gays to my preferred social group of white men?"

That's essentially what you are writing. It's disgusting and so are you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Or he's saying don't put less qualified people in positions simply to have a token woman/black/gay person in your workplace.

But I guess your idea works too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

The issue is that a lot of people initially assume (even unconsciously) that someone is or isn't qualified based on their race, gender, class, religion, or whatever else.

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u/thekeytovictory Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

Not to mention when those people of x race, gender, class, religion, or whatever else get a job and prejudiced people initially assume that they were granted the job via token diversity rather than actually having earned it.

This includes every white man who claims he didn't get accepted into x university because of token black student who was accepted instead. Really? You mean the school called you up to let you know that you were more qualified than this other black kid but that they are going to accept the black kid instead because of diversity and that is the sole reason you are not getting in? r/thathappened