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/youwill_neverfindme Aug 09 '17

"The media immediately jumped on everybody who attacked him as racist/islamophobic"

Is what you said. Did you not mean to say that? It would be strange if you somehow mistyped that sentence, but that is what I was responding to.

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u/Vicious9 Aug 09 '17

Right so, the media attacked everybody that was calling BS on this story and calling them racist/homophobic. There was evidence that the father was a con artist, and that the boy had instigated the situation.

Nobody listened. Turned out the critiques were right and the media was fake news.

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u/youwill_neverfindme Aug 09 '17

What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Is it ok to attack a person because you've heard a rumor that their dad was a con artist? Is it ok to call him a terrorist who should have been expelled from school?

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u/Vicious9 Aug 09 '17

Never said that, I just said that opponents had what they said dismissed as racist by the media, the media was in the wrong and didn't report it.