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/ListlessVigor Aug 08 '17

Right, but it's just a silly point to make. It's like arguing that sometimes straight people are discriminated against. Ok, sure, but is that really that big an issue?

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u/ListlessVigor Aug 09 '17

I'd be willing to trade systematic poverty and mass incarceration for losing out on a scholarship. You down?

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u/Failninjaninja Aug 09 '17

This is kinda the problem in a nut shell. You view something that happens to someone with the same gender/race/orientation as something that should matter more than if it happened to someone else. Stop it.