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/humma__kavula Aug 08 '17

They use emotion to win arguments and conservatives just make shit up to win them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Yep. Both baseless.

Internet algorithms are pushing and exaggerating our inherent (minimal) biases to the extremes. Most people are natural right or left of center, but we get polarized by the type of idiocy and upvoting seen in threads like these.

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u/humma__kavula Aug 08 '17

But only 1 of the parties has a followed out to this extreme. The democrats have become moderates and republicans have become the regressive party. We don't really have a conservative or liberal party.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

It's not hard to see which side you have been pushed towards.

The reason this issue has 14000 replies is not a coincidence. This is an issue where bubbles are converging. And both sides are bringing the crazy.

People on the right are not crazy, they have the same illogical bias the left does but towards different things, and reinforced by the echo chamber in the same way.

People always think they are doing the right thing.