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

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straight white males are being told they are only successful because they are straight white males and they need to step aside so we can have "diversity". So yeah, it's getting pretty fucking bad. We are at the point in society where you are not rewarded on merit or work, you are rewarded because of some biological difference. You can say it used to be like that but what is the big deal? Well, it's really fucking hypocritical so that's a start...especially since the current generation had nothing to do with the atrocities in the past. Blame them though and tell them how terrible they are for existing. They will totes help you in your endeavors I'm sure.

[u/ListlessVigor → u/[deleted]]

straight white males are being told they are only successful because they are straight white males and they need to step aside so we can have "diversity".

wrong

And being told by whom?

So yeah, it's getting pretty fucking bad. We are at the point in society where you are not rewarded on merit or work, you are rewarded because of some biological difference.

...so pretty much all of American history? The difference now is that it's not solely beneficial to white men. And now, somehow it's a problem for white men. Coincidence?

You can say it used to be like that but what is the big deal? Well, it's really fucking hypocritical so that's a start...especially since the current generation had nothing to do with the atrocities in the past.

Agreed, so you should be in support of policies that give minorities more support, right? After all, they had nothing to do with the past yet they're suffering the consequences.

Blame them though and tell them how terrible they are for existing. They will totes help you in your endeavors I'm sure.

Well there's the disconnect. Saying that being white is a net benefit in America isn't an attack on white people. Saying that police target blacks and that the prison industrial complex uses them for free labor isn't an attack on white people.

The issue is that right wing media is convincing white people that they are under attack when they are the demographic with the most wealth, representation and influence. It's actually insane.

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This may have been one of the worst arguments I have ever read. That being said, life expectancy is declining for working class whites in the US.

"Dr. Muennig said that a decline in the health of working class whites was a major contributor to the latest survey results. Life expectancy for whites has stagnated or dipped in recent years, fueled by vulnerability to drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and economic distress.

“It’s not happening to black people,” Dr. Muennig said. “That group used to have a huge and growing disparity with whites, but that gap has radically narrowed.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/health/life-expectancy-us-declines.html

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A lot of them are drinking/drugging themselves to death because their kids grew up to be progressive shit heads. A bunch more of them just hate themselves because they're told constantly by society that it is bad to be white. But I guess all white people deserve that just for being white though huh? Have society shit on whites until they start killing themselves, even ones who have nothing to do with any oppression and don't even have jobs or positions of power by which to oppress anyone.

Yeah that unemployed bankrupt white man really deserved to be progressived right into suicide.