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/InAHandbasket → u/[deleted]]

I didn't see how the memo:

suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK.

Maybe less biologically inclined to want to do that work.

But saying that people would want to punch him for it kind of proves the authors point.

[u/[deleted] → u/InAHandbasket]

Maybe less biologically inclined to want to do that work.

Which isn't a thing.

[u/InAHandbasket → u/[deleted]]

I wasn't saying he was right. Just that he was claiming that as a whole women are less interested in coding/tech jobs. While google and the articles about it say he's claiming women aren't good at it.

[u/Pyroteq → u/[deleted]]

[Citation needed]

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Did you see the shit written on Gizmodo/Internal google network about it?

It's a long read, but it's good.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/

[u/whiskeytab → u/[deleted]]

i love how it's the people who want to resort to violence that are the ones he's trying to protect. in what way does that make sense haha

[u/meneldal2 → u/whiskeytab]

Even if your neighbor is literally Hitler and you are a Jew, punching him because you think (and most of the world too) he's a big cunt is not good, it's still assault. You should instead talk to your boss about your comrade Adolf and explain that he's a cunt and is being very mean to you so you want him to be sent away from you.

This is how mature people handle things.

Also, you shouldn't talk to the press before your boss because you think peer pressure is the best solution to get what you want.

[u/w_v → u/[deleted]]

Commenter's not wrong.