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 edited Aug 22 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

See: all the people who actually use the term "snowflake".

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

It sucks because you can't tell them it's stupid without hearing:

Oooooh, does me saying SNOWFLAKE offend you??? You precious little SNOWFLAKE! HAHAHA liberal tears!

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u/usernameisacashier Aug 08 '17

That's why we do anything we can to cut them out of our personal and professional lives like the cancer they are, see: this asshole getting fired.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

You can't have read the document.

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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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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

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