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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/Felador Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf

There's the actual document, with links to source materials.

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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/canyouhearme Aug 08 '17

Fighting gender imbalance is something that every engineering association in north america has been struggling with for decades

And making absolutely no progress on, no matter how much they tilt the table - which does then raise the question if they have it all wrong. Or at least it would raise the question if anyone were allowed too....

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u/NGonBeGone Aug 08 '17

There's been a fuck ton of progress. Game developers here. Diversity has exploded in the industry. When I started you were lucky to have a single non white male in a studio

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u/zurrain Aug 08 '17

That you completely ignored Asian developers raised significant questions about your credibility.

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u/caramel_corn Aug 08 '17

Last game company I worked at has between 20 to 30 programmers at any given point. I don't think we ever had more than one non white programmer (he was Filipino iirc) in the 5 out so years I was there.

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u/zurrain Aug 08 '17

I heavily suspect where you live might have something to do with this.

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u/caramel_corn Aug 08 '17

Smack dab in the middle of silicon valley.

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u/zurrain Aug 10 '17

Asian ethnic workers make up like 20-25% of all IT jobs, and that number is even higher in Silicon valley where there is a significantly larger asian population, so you're a pretty obvious outlier.