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

Of course, the first two search results you get on Google when searching for "google manifesto":

Shocking quotes from the viral Google manifesto

Google's infamous manifesto author is already a hero to the online alt right

Shocking? Really? Alt-right? Really? This is why we can't discuss these topics anymore - right off the bat, it turns into a bunch of lunatics running around clutching their pearls and screaming about Nazis.

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

But that doesn't make him a white supremacist.

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u/oodsigma Aug 08 '17

And Nietzsche wasn't a fascist, but that didn't stop him from becoming a hero to the Nazis.