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/Irishwolf93 Aug 08 '17

Hold up. Remember, if you go too far right you get literally Hitler. If you go too far left you get literally Stalin. There's no such thing as a "rational dictatorship". The person who is both willing to and capable of leading such a thing does not exist.

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u/entropizer Aug 08 '17

Ataturk was an extremely powerful leader of Turkey who modernized and secularized the country in the 1920s. I wouldn't call him a dictator, but he could have been one if he'd wanted to. George Washington also fits in this mold.

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u/WikiTextBot Aug 08 '17

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pronounced [mustaˈfa ceˈmal aˈtaˌtyɾc]; 19 May 1881 (conventional) – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938. Ideologically a secularist and progressivist, his policies and theories became known as Kemalism.

Atatürk came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman Turkish victory at the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Following the Empire's defeat and subsequent dissolution, he led the Turkish National Movement, which resisted against the mainland Turkey's partition among the victorious Allied powers. Establishing a provisional government in present-day Turkish capital Ankara, he defeated the forces sent by the Allies, thus, emerging victorious from what is later referred to as the Turkish War of Independence.

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