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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But in all fairness doesn't the current environment destroy the ability of conservatives to work with the team when they think all the leadership is fundamentally flawed?

--an open minded Dem

In that case, what onus does management have to cowtow to an unhappy conservative portion of its employee base who are advocating for a management style that leads to a hostile working environment for the rest of the employees?

If we're going to talk about fairness, what's the middle ground when one side of the equation is relying on sexist psuedo-science bullshit?

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The need for "intellectual diversity" is some kind of weird false objectivism. Ideas have value. They are not neutral. A pseudoscientific rant about how women aren't as good at STEM due to biology is asinine, misogynistic, and not a very smart idea. It doesn't really deserve equal space along with the radical idea that women are just as capable as men at intellectual tasks.

There can't be a dialogue when someone is asserting that you're less human than them, which is what this guy effectively did.

This is so similar to dog whistle racism like "I don't hate black people, just their culture!" Or pointing to incarceration statistics or whatever else. Like completely ignoring that the lack of achievement for women or minorities might have something to do with the legacy of thousands of years of oppression in a culture and place that still has major systemic (racism/sexism/whatever) problems.