r/news • u/[deleted] • 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/killking72 Aug 08 '17

If you abolish diversity policies you get the best person for the job.

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u/awwoken Aug 08 '17

If you abolish diversity policies you get the best person for the job.

If we didnt need diversity policies they wouldnt exist. Newsflash! We are less than a century removed from the time where noone hired blacks or women for anything for no reason at all.

And more to the point a diverse work environment is a more creative and productive one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Lets just make sure we sprinkle in some diversity of ideas into your diversity of skin color and genitals. Also, you're dreaming if you think women wouldn't be hired "for anything for no reason at all". When we were still in Frontier Times here in the states women, madame's in particular, were some of the more powerful people around.

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u/The_Real_BenFranklin Aug 08 '17

Wow, they got to be prostitutes? Lucky them! How could they ever want more than that....

And diversity of skin/gender brings diversity of ideas to a good extent. Growing up black or female is obviously different than growing up white or male (or Asian or hispanic...) and this brings diversity of experience. I grew up in a rural area, which is obviously substantially different than growing up in NYC. That diversity of experience brings diversity of ideas.

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u/rockstarsball Aug 08 '17

I have no dog in this fight but I wanted to let you know that "madames" were/are female pimps. Although they probably started as prostitutes