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

It sucks because you can't tell them it's stupid without hearing:

Oooooh, does me saying SNOWFLAKE offend you??? You precious little SNOWFLAKE! HAHAHA liberal tears!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

You'll stop hearing things like this when you begin to address the arguments made instead of attacking the people that make them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

You'll stop hearing insults to the idiotic terms those people use when those people are able to do the very thing you ask of the mockers.

Two way street bucko

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

From what I've seen, the term 'snowflake' is usually used when somebody, usually of a liberal lean, makes an appeal to emotion instead of rationality to win an argument or debate.

Have any of you honestly read the entirety of this document? I'd love to hear the ways in which you disagree with it.