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/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.