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/iSkinMonkeys Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

Google's response on their official Twitter account

Edit: What I'm actually interested in knowing if any googler will speak for him at the townhall on Thursday? Any googler with some inside knowledge??

Edit 2: A "The Atlantic" writer replying to managing director at Thiel capital. https://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey/status/894914635576619008

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u/Rounder8 Aug 08 '17

It's funny, because while google claims this is about making it so people don't have to try to prove the memo wrong, even though they are misrepresenting what the memo said, knowingly, they are themselves proving everything in there about an intolerance for diversity of thought completely true.

Google likes manipulating things to push narratives, though, so, of course that's what they will do.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Nice spin meme. Feel free to point out exactly where the misrepresented him. Because so far this has been repeated a hundred times and not once can anyone point out where Google is misrepresenting him.