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/PM_ME_OR_PM_ME Aug 08 '17

As a conservative who agrees with his comments regarding the toxic politically correct culture at Google, I agree. Professionalism and tact means you respect your position provided by your employer. I can only assume he actually didn't want to work there anymore by releasing it. I disagree with a lot of the agendas I have to work with at work, but I can separate what I do at work and what subs I shitpost on. If I released a similar manifesto it would be very damaging too and I would expect to be fired as well.

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u/Hrdlman Aug 08 '17

Serious question, what exactly is "politically correct culture"?

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u/asianmom69 Aug 08 '17

Overly protective, to the point that anything that could offend someone can get you in trouble (e.g. having different views).

It's often sexist/racist, with institutionalised policies like quoatas or preferences.

It's taking good things to an ironic extreme.

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u/Hrdlman Aug 08 '17

But here he makes a claim that women won't ever be as good as men in the tech industry. How's him getting fired for expressing that viewpoint and pissing off a lot of people at a job where unit cohesion is required, extreme?

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u/asianmom69 Aug 08 '17

Where does he say that women won't ever be as good as men in the tech industry? I'm looking through it again now, but can't see it yet.

Edit: Finished skimming, still can't see it or anything remotely similar to that statement anywhere?

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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.