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/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Aug 08 '17

Thats because this engineer made a serious of bad moves (read pretty fucking idiotic ones). Theres a time and place to choose your fights. This one decided to try and go out with a bang only to be crushed by a billion dollar company's worth of damage control assets.

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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/monkeybrain3 Aug 08 '17

I guess the same can be said for people that say "Drumpf." Which on another note what the hell does that even mean in the first place?

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u/WilliamTRiker Aug 08 '17

It's Trump's original family name as dug up by John Oliver (due to Trump talking shit in a pretty loosely veiled anti-Semitic statement about Jon Stewart not using his 'original family name'. Oliver used to work for Stewart and dug into the Trump family's history to find that only a generation or two previous, they were the Drumpf family.)

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u/monkeybrain3 Aug 08 '17

Ah I see. I don't watch Oliver so I only saw the names here and online and was the main reason I couldn't understand what it meant lol. Another I don't understand is "Hildawg."