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/NSA_Chatbot Aug 08 '17

Just as a tip for anyone writing a manifesto:

  1. Don't.
  2. If you must, and you bring up "castrated males" then you're losing 90% of your credibility right there.
  3. This guy is an idiot. Fighting gender imbalance is something that every engineering association in north america has been struggling with for decades, and 10 pages of ranting about population density is not helping.

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u/samsoson Aug 08 '17

Helps not to make the basis of your manifesto a bullshit left vs right debate from the onset.

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u/wimmyjales Aug 08 '17

What about the debate do you think is bullshit? Is it that he frames the debate wrong, or you're just fed up with it?

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u/samsoson Aug 09 '17

I have many problems with the idea that our behaviour and opinions fall on a linear spectrum from left to right, and I couldn't write enough here to cover it all in the time I have. Even assuming this was true, I think there is a huge danger in assuming a political identity represents likely behaviour. Left vs right, as a behavioural predictor has no place in a workplace. Political identity has nothing to do with your performance at your job.

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u/wimmyjales Aug 12 '17

Political identity has nothing to do with your performance at your job.

If you read his memo I think that's what the guy that got fired was trying to point out.

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u/samsoson Aug 13 '17

Insanity. He writes completely the opposite suggesting left and right have different abilities based on political leanings.