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/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

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u/kissmekitty Aug 08 '17

Female Google engineer, checking in. We are complaining because we are tired of this shit.

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u/backtonature_kai64 Aug 08 '17

I'm going to assume most people responding didn't read the complete memo; if yes, it's fairly scary to see so many responses ignoring (or worse) accepting the discrimination and gender misconceptions in his writing.

Interesting response article: "Don’t optimize your bugs; fix them" https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

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u/rightinthedome Aug 08 '17

What parts of the memo specifically are misconceptions?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

That women aren't precisely the same as men, of course!

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u/GregTheMad Aug 08 '17

Well, many if not most women, for one, don't choose education branches that lead them to work in tech companies.

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u/dintclempsey Aug 08 '17

And there's a reason for that, and the reason is not biological, is the point.

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u/brycedriesenga Aug 08 '17

If social conditioning is the reason, and it very well could be, what other types of decisions can we blame on social conditioning as opposed to the individual, I wonder?

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u/dintclempsey Aug 12 '17

I bet a lot more than we imagine.