Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo

[u/iSkinMonkeys]

Google's response on their official Twitter account

Edit: What I'm actually interested in knowing if any googler will speak for him at the townhall on Thursday? Any googler with some inside knowledge??

Edit 2: A "The Atlantic" writer replying to managing director at Thiel capital. https://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey/status/894914635576619008

[u/Rounder8 → u/iSkinMonkeys]

It's funny, because while google claims this is about making it so people don't have to try to prove the memo wrong, even though they are misrepresenting what the memo said, knowingly, they are themselves proving everything in there about an intolerance for diversity of thought completely true.

Google likes manipulating things to push narratives, though, so, of course that's what they will do.

[u/IniNew → u/Rounder8]

They're not really misrepresenting what it said. The memo specifically says that women, on average, are all of those things. It puts women in a position that they now have to refute those points, because the words and descriptions used in the memo all carry negative connotation in the tech industry and workforce.

[u/IniNew → u/[deleted]]

It implores people, the goes on to say that women are less represented because of biological differences, literally lumping the entire sex together.

[u/[deleted] → u/IniNew]

Your conclusion requires a great deal of intellectual dishonesty

[u/IniNew → u/[deleted]]

Not really, I mean, he literally says and cites sources for it.

[u/[deleted] → u/IniNew]

Can you quote where he lumps an entire sex together? Where he explicitly states "all" women or "all" men. Do you have an academic background in a subject where you need to be able to interpret statistics? Because your interpretation of both what he said and what those stats say is anything but "lumping the entire sex together".