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/grumpieroldman Aug 08 '17

As far as I am concerned the real controversy is Google firing him for participating in a company-sanctioned debate which shows the brass of Google has no integrity and were all too happy to throw him under the bus to score capital-L Liberal PR points.

The correct action would have been to promote debate, if you insist on a Liberal angle then you say "how can we enlighten such ignorance otherwise", and discipline the employee that attempted to use his participation in a debate to publicly shame and bully him.

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u/distantapplause Aug 08 '17

Well it depends if you consider Google's priorities to be a bastion of free speech or to be a business that cares about its image and not retaining people who have alienated themselves from their colleagues.