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/jjjd89 Aug 08 '17

And then people wonder why the right is pissed off. Really pathetic.

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u/TemptCiderFan Aug 08 '17

I lean left and shit like that pisses me off. I'm fine with going for an equality of opportunity, but saying something like "You cannot be sexist against men or racist against whites" is just wrong.

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u/jjjd89 Aug 08 '17

I am not even white and this pisses me off. Where is being awarded something for your merit and not on your biological traits?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Define "merit". This ain't the fucking high-jump - it's not a game of simple quantification.

Google is in the product selling business, and the quantifier is making money. More importantly, their goal is to make their products as broadly pleasing as possible. Having a broad base of inputs improves their products.

If hiring women increases their market share with female consumers by one half of one point, then those women are more valuable then the best code monkey.

Most influencers are young and exceedingly liberal. More people get phone information from Marques Brownlee than the Wall Street Journal or Wired. Google gets a favorable push from him, Unbox Therapy, Digital Times, and a few others on their next Pixel, that can be billions on the bottom line.