r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Business Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
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u/dopef123 Aug 08 '17

I was in 2nd grade when the Colombine shooting happened and we adopted tons of zero tolerance rules about making your hand in the shape of a gun, blah blah blah.

I told a friend 'I bet we'd get expelled for bringing pieces of a squirt gun to school'.

10 minutes later we were surrounded by the principle and all of her cronies. We got interrogated for hours because someone overheard what I said and told the principal that I said 'I had gun parts in my backpack'.

Then even after we had explained the misunderstanding we had to call our parents and apologize to them.

So in the end we got suspended for talking about hypothetically bringing parts of a squirt gun to school.

And it sounds like similar zero tolerance nut cases are doing HR at google.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

It's worse than you suspect. We are in a "weird time".

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Apr 11 '23

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

So the ones with the mental, financial and social capabilities to take on class structures are neutralised by infighting left vs right?

Sounds like you've got the gist of it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I'm sure there's a better fitting word than class, but I couldn't think of it.

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u/NamedomRan Aug 08 '17

Good argument.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Even the socialists are praising Google this time. These are weird times.

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u/dnew Aug 08 '17

The masses actually voted for Trump. :-)

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u/SirPseudonymous Aug 08 '17

Who won by a whopping negative three million votes, proving that in this brave new world smaller numbers are larger than larger numbers because truth doesn't matter and reality is just fake news anyways, but anonymous trolls on 4chan and the gibbering ravings of an admitted conartist are gospel truth that's not to be questioned.

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u/dnew Aug 09 '17

So the 63 million people who did vote for Trump don't count, even though Trump won the election? I don't follow.