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posted by martyb on Friday August 11 2017, @02:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the hurry-up-and-stop dept.

Google is struggling to discuss the recent diversity memo controversy internally:

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, canceled a scheduled all-hands staff meeting—moments before it was scheduled to begin—meant to address concerns over a controversial essay published by former employee James Damore.

In an email to staff, Pichai explained that questions from employees had been leaked and that, in some cases, specific employees' identities were revealed, exposing them to harassment and threats. Instead of today's large-scale meeting, which was to be livestreamed to Google's 60,000 employees worldwide, smaller groups will meet sometime in the future.

"We had hoped to have a frank open discussion today as we always do to bring us together and move forward. But our Dory questions appeared externally this afternoon, and on some websites Googlers are now being named personally," Pichai said in the email.

Also at CNET.


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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday August 12 2017, @11:38PM (4 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday August 12 2017, @11:38PM (#553030) Journal

    Enough until there is no discrimination! For the USA, it is making up for a few hundred years of genocide and slavery and racism. It is like Aristotle said about straightening a stick, you have to over-bend it the other way for it to come back true.

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  • (Score: 2) by slinches on Monday August 14 2017, @07:22PM (3 children)

    by slinches (5049) on Monday August 14 2017, @07:22PM (#553809)

    How do we know when to stop over-bending, then? What are the criteria that say we have corrected the initial bend without going too far the other way?

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday August 14 2017, @08:10PM (2 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Monday August 14 2017, @08:10PM (#553822) Journal

      Kind of hard to go too far the wrong way, without subjecting people with white skin to some three hundred years of chattel slavery. But just enough until structural discrimination ceases to exist. And of course the pathetic whining of the racists is just a sign that Affirmative Action is having the desired effect. America is on the right course. Just need to identify all these Neo-Nazis, KKKers, and Alt-right racists, and publically shame them and get them fired from their jobs and booted off Google or Go-Daddy hosting! That part of bending the stick is easy to recognize as correct.

      • (Score: 2) by slinches on Monday August 14 2017, @10:16PM (1 child)

        by slinches (5049) on Monday August 14 2017, @10:16PM (#553862)

        I just don't buy the premise that you can correct discrimination with more discrimination. Even if you do succeed in leveling the outcomes, why would it not breed more of the same hatred that you're trying to eliminate? It's the same concept as the war on terror causing more terrorism as bystanders get caught in the cross-fire. In that case, doubling down on the discrimination will only give the racists and misogynists more disenfranchised and angry people to recruit and you'll never have a truly egalitarian society.

        Instead, I think that if we promote inclusion and understanding and provide assistance to all of those who need it, structural racism/sexism will fade away on its own. Stop giving credence to the idea that race and gender are meaningful discriminators and the idea will fade into obscurity, simply because it's wrong.