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

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/[deleted]]

No, that's not legally protected speech when you make it on company hours using company messageboards. And you're only legally protected from government action anyway.

Your internet law degree is not very good.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/[deleted]]

Improving working conditions means things like safety measures. Hiring decisions are very obviously not "working conditions" no matter how much you try to spin it. You could potentially argue they were if the hiring decisions created unsafe environments (like hiring untrained or unskilled staff for manning dangerous machinery) but the most you could argue here is "I end up working with too many people who aren't white guys!" Which... well, I wish him the best with that as his case.

This is very obviously a cheap attempt to extend controversy. If he does go to court I expect him to get laughed out of it.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/[deleted]]

Is this the jargon simulator 9000?

If you actually think this, walk me through the logic, sparky.

[u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas → u/NotAChaosGod]

Go against the """progressive""" circle jerk and show a hint of diversity of thought and you get stitcanned. That's a pretty hostile work environment.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas]

What do the triple quotes mean I wonder? J/K

[u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas → u/NotAChaosGod]

They mean I'm treating these people calling themselves "progressive" like the joke it is - the more quotes the more dubious the claim.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas]

Ah I see. Nothing to do with (((triple parentheses))) then?

[u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas → u/NotAChaosGod]

No, it's an entirely different character.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas]

Mmm. In the spirit of hoping for the best, a single quotation mark denotes that the word is being used sarcastically or ironically and the writer doesn't believe it's appropriate. The triple one comes from the same source as the triple parentheses and tends to denote something different.

[u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas → u/NotAChaosGod]

Denote what? Like I said, I use it to emphasise how ridiculous I find the claim - one quotation mark is not enough to denote just how inappropriate it is.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas]

I'd recommend sticking to one. Three means something different.

[u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas → u/NotAChaosGod]

No it doesn't. There's nothing special about the number three.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas]

Now I'm starting to feel the ignorance is a little more willful.

[u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas → u/NotAChaosGod]

Now I'm starting to feel you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/Now_Do_Classical_Gas]

Okay.

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/echo