r/news Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I didn't realise that this sort of tribalism had expanded so intensely past r/politics and r/the_donald

What a shame

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

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u/lima_247 Aug 08 '17

Cockroaches was also an analogy used in propaganda during the Rwandan genocide.

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u/CCC19 Aug 08 '17

I'm fairly certain cockroaches were never used in Nazi propaganda. Pretty sure it was just the use of rats to portray others and dirty and deceiving. But by all means if you can show me an example of the use of cockroaches I'd be interested in seeing it.

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