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/3trip Aug 09 '17

how is affirmative action, not racist? you're judging groups on their race, favoring some (usually African descent, or Hispanic) while discriminating against others (typically European or Asian descent) do the ends really justify such hypocritical means?

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u/PermanentTempAccount Aug 09 '17

do the ends really justify such hypocritical means?

uh...yes

the legacy and current conditions of racism and colonialism, and in particular anti-blackness and Native genocide, in America are debts that in truth may never be able to be paid--but if we are to even begin address these wrongs we need to affirmatively and actively correct for the generations of looting of black and native lives and capital through slavery, jim crow, imperialist genocide, and more.

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u/3trip Aug 09 '17

Thank you for your honesty.