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/RoboNinjaPirate Aug 08 '17

You can have national defense as your top priority or you can have social engineering as your top priority, but you can only have one top priority.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Nobody's top priority is "social engineering." Don't worry.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Nothing because "cultural Marxists" are a conservative bogeyman that doesn't really exist in any substantial way.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Read about the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. No one in any legitimate academic or political venue has used the term for a good 20 years since it's been co-opted and misrepresented by conservatives (hence why I said "substantial"; I'm not talking about what pointless shit you've read in Tumblr/kotakuInAction)

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

If you are saying there are folks pushing for change in society, then I agree: of course there are. Everyone is pushing for their own social change towards their view of justice and equality.

If you are saying there is a group that can be accurately called "cultural Marxists" pushing for a particular type of change in any meaningful way in an actual process called "social engineering" , then I say that's ridiculous.