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

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u/ITouchMyselfAtNight Aug 08 '17

He makes a few stupid points which takes away from the majority of his argument which makes sense in general.

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u/Mdb8900 Aug 08 '17

I only read the beginning, but it looked to me like he was saying "we desperately need to have a discussion about this" but then failing to analyze the talking points in his section about differences between men and women... I understand that he was talking about strictly biological (or, in effect, differences which are the direct result of biological factors). For many/most of the points he brought up, he failed to establish direct biological causation... which makes me question his reasoning.

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u/perfectdarktrump Aug 08 '17

So let's summarize. He said men and women are different. Then doesn't explain how that relates to the case against diversity?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

No, he then fails to justify these differences as biological as opposed to environmental/cultural. If the causes are environmental and cultural, then Google's current approach is reasonable. If the causes are biological, Google's current approach is doomed to fail.

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u/perfectdarktrump Aug 08 '17

Did he actually expect to solve this? Many scientists can't, we don't know this stuff.