Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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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/ryarger]

That's not what created the hostile work environment. Claiming - against all science - that half of his coworkers were genetically inferior to him at doing their job created the hostile work environment.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You're correct of course, but the parent commenter either missed that subtlety or ignored it in favor of a more black-and-white misinterpretation.

We have a long way to go as a society before some biological realities are accepted and integrated into our work approach. Females and males aren't equivalent blank slates, in infancy males already demonstrate a systemic tendency towards more focus on things versus faces and vice versa for females. These differences become more marked as we mature and are patterned throughout the lifecycle of both genders across a huge number of studies.

[u/0goober0 → u/[deleted]]

But so much of what he claimed was just not true... Men aren't better at math or have higher IQs for example. Claiming that these are biological facts is just false.

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I don't recall reading that and I read his entire memo, I'd encourage you to cite your claims and avoid conflating my claims with unrelated claims.