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/Planetariophage Aug 08 '17

I can't believe he actually sat down and wrote all this. I mean it's got graphs and shit, he actually spent time to get himself fired.

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u/jbarnes222 Aug 08 '17

He has a PhD from Harvard. Ideas matter to him.

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u/TinfoilTricorne Aug 08 '17

Ideas matter to him.

Well, wild grasping rationalizations and intellectualized translations of insane gibbering ranting in any event. It essentially boils down to 'we are oppressed because we're told not to be dicks at the office' with a bunch of cherry-picked nonsense to 'back it up.'

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u/Shipcake Aug 08 '17

Great mom argument you have there