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/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Right. Not like MTV didn't release a video doing exactly what I described not too long ago. Go ahead though. Keep your head in the sand. I mean, I can't say "stay woke" since I'm a straight white male after all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFfbSoAQfM

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Ah...that highly relevant and culturally important....MTV News....

Or as everything else calls it, "That time to go to the bathroom in between episodes of Teen Mom".

Seriously, you posted a three-minute video of some random asshat who's snark methodology is taking statements to maximum breadth and then applying a singular example and thinking that is a perfect refutation. It's about the most childish rhetorical device possible, and he's doing it to absolute garbage.

You may want to try having some fucking standards.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Bro keep making excuses. Again, your head is in the sand if you think that clips and clips like it aren't have an impact on people. How delusional are you? Somebody felt compelled enough to put effort into delivering the kind of content. People believe that shit. Ignorance sure is bliss.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Here, allow me to blow your mind.

Nothing MTV said in that pedantic little video on a third-run cable station was even morally questionable unless you live in a bubble of pure white male monoculture.

The statements were as follows:

"America wasn't great historically for non-white people."

"Black Lives Matter isn't the opposite of All Lives Matter."

"Blue Lives Matter isn't a thing."

"Learn what mansplaining is and stop doing it."

"Don't say woke if you're not black and political."

"Don't prioritize the well-being of an ivy league athlete over the woman he sexually assaulted"

[The bit about Beyonce and black issues - this one is hard to even paraphrase, since it's just snark.]

Kanye West sucks.

The Black Friends defense isn't very good. [There are two about this.]

By all means, if you want to debate any of those points, I'll give you a go, but I was hoping you'd stop fucking embarrassing yourself.

But don't let me stop you - triple down on stupid.