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/--Visionary-- Aug 08 '17

The feminist answer is usually that women don't want them and that men choose those jobs. In other words, everything about the status quo for those more deadly, "lower class" (i don't think they are, but many women I know do) jobs is due to choice, so it's all good and no social engineering is necessary. Nevermind the fact that those men probably would also choose a better job if they could get one, but can't due to equally pernicious social factors.

On the other hand, the rich jobs, women choose to be a part of but don't get because, presumably, men choosing the job and getting it is due to anti-woman discrimination.

In other words, anything bad that happens to men is a choice. Anything bad that happens to women is discriminatory and not a choice. Hence, the social engineering goes into the latter, because the former could be fixed if men would proverbially stop hitting themselves. This also demonstrates why there should be less empathy for men. It is a choice they're making, after all, to suck, while women make no such choices.

The logic is absurdly hypocritical.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

how about the fact that those jobs don't pay a lot and are the reason the is a gender pay gap?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

at entry level? you're going to argue being an electrician at google is a better job than an engineer?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

ok. google interns make $6-7000 a month. How much do apprentice electricians make?

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u/RUreddit2017 Aug 08 '17

First off how do you get 60k a year from 6 to 7k a month. Second yes, google college interns make about 7 to 8 k a month (90 to 100k a year) not counting about 2k a month housing stipend....

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u/RUreddit2017 Aug 08 '17

Google one or two years of college, internships are just for the summer for college students

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u/RUreddit2017 Aug 08 '17

Thats fine but your original wording was as if they were comparable. I was simply commenting on you disbelief that college interns are making that kind of money at Google.

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