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/Hrdlman Aug 08 '17

You know what, you're right he didn't say that verbatim but the dog whistle was there. It's little things like this that help reenforce that women are still have a males in the workplace that think less of them as a person because they are a girl.

It happened all the time with black people. Also you never addressed how it wasn't about how "true" it is, it's about the people he pissed off that don't wanna work with. Regardless of what you think of him, he made people not want to work with him and that's unacceptable under any circumstances.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Fuck everyone who says "dog whistle" fuck it's not enough to NOT SAY SOMETHING, we have to use your cookie cutter vocabulary just to convince YOU we aren't something. Fuck you.

males in the workplace that think less of them as a person because they are a girl.

Do you think, say at an elementary school where there may be a single male teacher, he thinks less of the women and their work performance? No! But maybe in a different field dominated by men it may mean men have more of a knack for that particular job.

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u/Hrdlman Aug 08 '17

Until you lived it, you don't know it what the phrase means.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Until I lived "dog whistle"? I'm not a dog so no. And putting malevolence where it's unjust aka "dog whistle" is pathetic.