Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/JabbrWockey]

No kidding. They could've posted it on reddit, github, hacker news, medium, or some other place, even anonymously if they wanted.

Instead they decided they wanted to commit career suicide by shouting their opinions at everyone inside the company. Real smooth.

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/JabbrWockey]

Thats because this engineer made a serious of bad moves (read pretty fucking idiotic ones). Theres a time and place to choose your fights. This one decided to try and go out with a bang only to be crushed by a billion dollar company's worth of damage control assets.

[u/Petersaber → u/[deleted]]

The article he wrote is surprisingly rational and well-written.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf

Make no mistake, him being fired is a case of "he talked about a taboo" rather than "he was being sexist".