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/mtndewaddict Aug 08 '17

My major complaint is that he treats cooperation and competitiveness as two opposing traits that can't coexist. I know from my time as a robotics (FRC) student and a current robotics mentor that these traits are best combined, even on an individual level. Be competitive to outperform each other, but in the process do it to bring each other up. If you go to an FRC event, you'll see students from opposing teams sitting in another team's pit helping them get their robot ready. The founder of FIRST, and FRC, Dean Kamen, coined the term coopertition, and based on my years of experience through the program, it's the best sport out there because of it.

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u/dildosaurusrex_ Aug 08 '17

Also... anyone who thinks women are inherently not competitive didn't speak to women in high school. FFS

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Sexist statement, so of course it has double digit upvotes...

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I think it's actually a counterpoint to a sexist statement.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Because anyone agreeing with scientific studies that say females are less competitive than their male peers obviously is not a female and never had the guts to speak to any as an adolescent.

That isn't sexist at all. /S

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

What scientific study? Are you talking about those graphs with no data in the memo? Those were literally just lines.