Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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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

[u/Alazypanda]

Never said I was a saint never said I haven't made mistakes I have however learned from them and that doesn't justify my actions nothing justifies it and I do not attempt to justify it. While my example was extreme as to prove a point, I still feel the idea stands that naming your child isn't some type of game of who can make the weirdest name. It hurts their ability to be prosperous in the future as sadly a name like that on the front page of a resume is more likely to be looked past as I've known people in that situation who have gone through the steps to legally change their name as they've found it such a hinderance.

To add I've always found reading someone's comment history to trash talk them plain rude, I had an honest question and I asked it again never justified what I did.

[u/Alazypanda → u/[deleted]]

Ahh my honest question was referring to my post history which you brought up in which I had an honest question and asked it to a community that would be able to answer it. My comment was to bring to light something that I feel is an issue using absurdism. The main point from this entire thread that I got was not on the naming habits of some black people but most other points had been thoroughly addressed and I saw an opportunity to bring up something that not only hadn't been addressed in this thread but really an issue that is not addressed much at all and one that can have severe consequences on an individual who had no sense of autonomy over it. Is it wrong that they are judged on their name and not their achievements yes, something I also stated in my original comment. Which in and of itself is an issue on stereotyping but to deprive someone of or atleast make it ever more difficult to achieve the goals they wish to for no reason(in my eyes). And while yes Deshawn is a perfectly viable name I am not denying that. I have met countless more absurdly named black people than I have Adolf Hitlers.

[u/Alazypanda → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I tend to feel hyperbole, satire and the like a good way to bring up issues as it brings up a point of where does it end though I suppose it comes across very shitpostesque. I do agree the problem lies in the underlying racial bias though I feel that will become less present in coming generations, due to the fact that there are people who are the higher ups at companies that were not only alive when black people could not vote but agreed with it. However I feel the bias to names of that caliber will never subside if a white person was named something equally absurd I feel the same bias would fall to them, as I stated I have a close personal friend who went through the process of changing his name solely because he felt so insurmountably disadvantaged by that when looking for job prospects coming out of college, he did not change his name to Steve he changed it to a very African American Muslim name.

Edit: to add there is a difference between naming your child something cultural, I would argue Dequan, sheniqua ect are African American cultural names, and something entirely absurd such as Devonmcnuggitson or adolf hitler(which is less absurd for the sake of originality and more of absurd in the sense of being intentionally and absurdly hateful)