Politics Google employee writes memo stating Google is anti-diversity of thoughts/political ideas

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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

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    I should probably actually read his memo sometime. I think saying willfully racist or sexist things makes you fair game to be fired, but my understanding from second-hand accounts was that this was merely controversial rather than flagrantly sexist. If it's the former, he shouldn't be fired. If it's the latter, I don't have a big issue with it.
     
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    I read it, other than women should be barefoot and pregnant it didn't seem off to me.
     
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    Its good he got fired.

    This will open up a lot of backlash, exposure of manufactured search results, shadowbanning, and the deep state. Twitter is getting creamed for their SJW silencing crusade. Only a matter of time until they go shits creek bro.
     
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    It's all an M. Night plot twist... Twitter is a vast right wing operation and is false flagging as a bunch of leftists to red pill the people.
     
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    He's fired and rightly so.

    What an employee does that reflects poorly on the company is grounds for termination. No question about it.
     
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    The fact that the mere suggestion that the gender wage gap might have more to do with biological factors than discrimination somehow reflects poorly on the company is in and of itself the problem.
     
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    Exactly.

    There may be some merit to some bits of his manifesto, though. I didn't find it compelling.
     
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    The people in here defending this ass hat need to check themselves.
     
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    I'm curious what the memo author said that you find so deplorable.
     
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    Whenever you blanket statement a whole demographic you are deplorable.
     
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    I missed where he blanket-statemented a whole demographic. Would you be willing to point that out for me?

    Most of what I read was qualified as "on average", and that his observations were qualified with this statement: "Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from women in the following ways or that these differences are 'just.' I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes"
     
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    Denny: "There may be some merit to some bits of his manifesto"

    You defended him, you just hold a corporate-friendly viewpoint that anyone should be fired at any time if the corporation is displeased.

    I finally motivated myself to read through it and my thoughts are: it's fairly generic "evolutionary psychology/biology" theory that tends to affirm traditional gender roles, even though we no longer live in the environment that the evolution took place in (and a lot of the claims in evolutionary psychology are dubious at best to begin with). He's also one-sided: he notes that there's overlap between men and women (which blows the whole concept of what "men and women are good at" out of the water because we self-select for what we're good at individually, not as a sex) but he only seems to recognize it as it relates to how it harms men (people see lack of aggression in demanding raises/promotions as a women's issue, but there are non-aggressive men too!).

    Overall, I think it's a muddled and not very strong case and I don't agree with it at all. I still don't think he should have been fired, because I don't think he was being maliciously sexist or racist. I recognize that Google had every right to fire him, but I don't think it's all that beneficial to fire people because they harbor ideas you or I disagree with.
     
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    That fool has no training, schooling, etc and I'm not sure there is any available to make a statement like that. On average women are more neurotic? GTFO...
     
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    Do you really believe that's why he was fired? Answer this:

    How would workplace morale be when he returned to the office after his manifesto? Riiiiight...

    He was fired for "conduct detrimental to the team".
     
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    If he had said something flagrantly sexist, I'd agree with the workplace morale thing. In my opinion, his sin was using junk science/logic to (mildly) affirm traditional gender roles. I completely disagree with that, but I don't think that makes him toxic, personally.
     

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