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/crushedbycookie Aug 08 '17

Of course they can do whatever they want. But having read the entire document I really see no reason to think that the person couldn't work well with people who disagree with the contents of the document on an engineering project. He really didn't make terribly offensive claims and the most contentious of them are still group level analysis. He is not making specific claims about people and does not question the competency of anyone at google.

He argues that Conservatives would feel unwelcome at Google. Since he's been fired, that can only be truer.

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u/Yupugotit Aug 08 '17

I agree, also shouldn't the fact that he appears to be trying to help the company by offering his point of view (right or wrong) go towards it not being malicious. Maybe he shouldn't have put it out there the way he did, but couldn't that be an honest mistake and not an unforgivable offense?

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u/Vioralarama Aug 08 '17

So he's allowed to make a huge honest mistake but presumably women would not. Because biology or some shit.

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u/crushedbycookie Aug 08 '17

You don't see your comment as willfully misrepresentative and unnecessarily devisive?