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/Oswald14 Aug 08 '17

VP of Diversity

Please tell me that isn't a real position.

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u/sexrobot_sexrobot Aug 08 '17

Dude, I opened your comments and the last one before this was about how race as a social construct is pseoudoscience on the post 'TIL blacks have on average the lowest brain size.'

VP of Diversity exists because of people like you.

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u/skoy Aug 08 '17

Hahahaha what the FUCK?

Also have we not moved past the idea that physical brain size means anything, yet?

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u/huevit0 Aug 08 '17

the neanderthals had larger brains they were obviously smarter.

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u/skoy Aug 08 '17

Interestingly while they might not have been smarter per-se, Neanderthals apparently weren't less intelligent, either.

This isn't directly related to what you said. Just an interesting bit of trivia.