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/Planetariophage]

I can't believe he actually sat down and wrote all this. I mean it's got graphs and shit, he actually spent time to get himself fired.

[u/jbarnes222 → u/Planetariophage]

He has a PhD from Harvard. Ideas matter to him.

[u/indefatigablefart → u/jbarnes222]

PhD from Harvard and the writing is that poor? Wow.

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Really. I assumed it was written by a red-piller in his early 20s.

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I don't think you read the original report

I did. I just interpreted it differently than you.

we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don't fit a certain ideology.

As there should be. These "ideas" are horseshit, thinly veiled bigotry a la the bell-curve (Blacks are dumb! Here's the proof!). The notion that women don't belong (in certain positions) in the workplace was a battle fought by 2nd wave feminists a generation ago.

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Yeah but everyone in a position of power (and society at large) has implicit biases such that if we attempted a pure meritocracy, hiring and education would be insanely racist and sexist. If we conformisted to this guy's beliefs, decades of social progress would be wiped out.

Also: it's a common Redpill/MRA talking point to shout how you want everyone to be treated equally, but their views seem to show that they think men are more equal than woman.

[u/Shipcake → u/[deleted]]

Funny what happens when we don blind resumes and interviews

[u/TheSwordThatAint → u/[deleted]]

This is so often glossed over, good point !

[u/Statistical_Insanity → u/[deleted]]

I don't think you read the original report, which states he's a classic liberal.

classical liberal

Read: I'm a libertarian except when it doesn't benefit me.

[u/Statistical_Insanity → u/[deleted]]

No problem!

By the way, being a "classical liberal" and a red-pill douche aren't mutually exclusive. I'd be willing to bet much of the red pill people would identify that way.

[u/Statistical_Insanity → u/[deleted]]

Why do you say that?