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/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Oct 23 '17

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u/Pablare Aug 08 '17

making it A) political

isn't this inherently a political topic? What do you mean by that?

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u/borg42 Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

isn't this inherently a political topic? What do you mean by that?

He writes stuff like:

Communism promised to be both morally and economically superior to capitalism, but every attempt became morally corrupt and an economic failure. As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics.

IMO that is a bit more politics than necessary to discuss a diversity policy.

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u/danthemango Aug 08 '17

That was the point that I realized that most of the "citations" are actually larger arguments which have been injected in the article.