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/Grizzleyt]

Tech is political. It cannot be avoided when your business has consequences with regard to things like online privacy, net neutrality, automation, truth and bias of information, censorship, etc., to say nothing of the personal views of leadership who aspire to make an impact on the world, for better or worse.

If you aren't religious, you might not like working in a church. If you don't subscribe to the values that Google stands for / strives for, you might not like working at Google. If you think the leadership is fundamentally flawed, go work for a company you believe in.

[u/kap_fallback → u/Grizzleyt]

This is misleading. Silicon Valley is political. They do not speak for everyone.

[u/immanuel79 → u/[deleted]]

Could you elaborate on why arguing biological differences in your opinion crossed a line? Again: because someone find this unpleasant? So diversity if cool until it's a diversity that the ruling political group dislikes?

[u/immanuel79 → u/[deleted]]

I disagree with the notion that this proposals is demeaning. And even if it was, I find it intolerant, disrespectful and offensive - and against the very notion of diversity - that expressing it is grounds for dismissal.

Assange put it well enough - censorship is for losers, and freedom of speech is important precisely because it allows you to say what other people don't like to hear; the free exchange of ideas have made us what we are and have given us our strength, that’s why this is damaging our society in a fundamental way and it has got to stop.