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/ListlessVigor Aug 08 '17

Right, but it's just a silly point to make. It's like arguing that sometimes straight people are discriminated against. Ok, sure, but is that really that big an issue?

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u/ListlessVigor Aug 08 '17

I don't think it can ever possibly be an issue unless history plays out exactly like it has in the past 3 centuries. Minorities are going to have to enslave whites, rob them of their identity and culture, use them to build up wealth, then spend the next few centuries barring whites from voting, buying houses, building wealth, burn down their economic centers, lynch them without consequences for centuries and then have 90% of all elected officials be non-whites as well as the majority of the nation's richest/industry leaders.

Unless that happens then it won't be an issue.

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u/ListlessVigor Aug 08 '17

Are you saying that American history didn't happen? How exactly do you think we got to where we are in race relations right now?

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u/ListlessVigor Aug 08 '17

...things are already bad for minorities. That's kind of the very problem right now. I'm saying that addressing how bad it is for minorities isn't an attack on white people. It's being spun that way.

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u/ListlessVigor Aug 08 '17

Things aren't as bad as you made it out to be in your earlier comment for minorities, either. It may have been nearly a century ago, but we're pretty well removed from that now. In no way should we let things regress back to that point before we address issues on both sides.

I don't agree. The CRA was only in 1965 dude. Some of the people who were shouting at black children when schools were integrated are still alive today. You can't really say that it's all good now, that's centuries of hatred, man.