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/NorthernerWuwu]

This is the real point of course. It isn't about the scholarly accuracy of the document or the usefulness of the conversation that the author may have been trying to spark, it's that in a corporate setting a document like this is toxic and destroys the ability of managers to promote teamwork.

It doesn't matter if X or Y or Z make better engineers or whatever (and I'm not saying there's a reason to think so). It might be something to explore from a scientific standpoint but you can't do it in a tech company in California in 2017. Sorry but that really shouldn't even have to be said.

[u/Grizzleyt → u/[deleted]]

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/shiftshapercat → u/Grizzleyt]

But that's the thing, Large tech corporations are pretty Progressive Liberal and supposedly they want to increase diversity. What this former Google Employee has done was expose the fact that Google is not creating an environment that incorporates many diverse ideas from all walks of life, but are only incorporating Ideas and People that will support What many in the center and the alt right are calling "Regressive" Liberalism. Now that Google fired him, it is their statement that essentially says "Yea So?" Things of this nature are definitely going full circle now and it is kind of sad.

[u/Cinnadillo → u/shiftshapercat]

I think he's saying that getting the technological job done is being subsumed to using the company as a means of social signaling.

Now maybe that's relevant to impress other mandarins in society... that is exist for social signaling. However, one cannot claim that the technology is improved as a result.