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Gizmodo got their hands on an internal memo gone viral at Google that criticizes extreme biases and blind promotion of diversity. The memo's author confronts the practice of silencing such minority opinions through shame:
"Despite what the public response seems to have been, I've gotten many personal messages from fellow Googlers expressing their gratitude for bringing up these very important issues which they agree with but would never have the courage to say or defend because of our shaming culture and the possibility of being fired. This needs to change."
Are these hints of the writing on the proverbial wall? One fears the diversity pendulum will break rather than be allowed to swing back.
[Update: Google has written a memo to its employees about the document. - ed]
Also at Motherboard and BBC.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 07 2017, @03:33PM (12 children)
"maintain a friendly work environment for all employees."
Right - that includes people who are not progressive.
"life is leaving leaving you behind"
Noted. Except, your side isn't making any real progress. They still don't have a corps of female engineers willing to follow the progressive agenda, do they?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @04:03PM (8 children)
You're so adversarial and stupid. You think it is some sort of competition, but it isn't. The progress is on general equality, and it has been fucking massive. It is no longer OK to assault minorities, whether racial or cultural. In the US at least everyone is technically equal and it gets closer all the time. A lot of the bullshit bigotry and misogynism is going out of fashion, and you can be angry that your "common sense" nastiness is no longer accepted but don't expect anyone else to shed any tears for you.
Basically, social awareness is beginning to trump "being the boss". Just because you are an adult does not give you a free pass to be a stupid jerk, want to tell some racist or sexist jokes? Expect negative reactions.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 07 2017, @04:55PM (7 children)
Yeah, you're right. There is little competition with people like this representing your party. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2484587/posts [freerepublic.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @05:18PM (6 children)
Not my party, but I guess HRC is still a crook so Trump supporters don't need to look at their own problems.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 07 2017, @05:29PM (5 children)
The Grand Inquisitors of the Far Left are examining Trump as we speak. They'll have him burning at the cross soon enough. Then they'll regret it because the forgettable fellow filling the second string slot will become first string - and he sucks more ass than Trump does. Have you ever heard, "Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it"? In all of GWB's years, I never wished that Bush would just drop dead, because that other forgettable second stringer would have taken over GWB's job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @05:39PM
**WOOOSH**
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday August 07 2017, @09:09PM (2 children)
Is that really the best endorsement you can muster for the corrosive dickhead you helped vote into office? "BEWARE THE MIKE PENCE DEADMAN SWITCH"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 07 2017, @11:30PM
HRC and Wasserman-Schultz helped elect the corrosive moron - I did not. I suppose you need a reminder that I didn't vote for the court fool, or for the wicked witch - I voted Libertarian. And, before you get started, as bad as Johnson is, he's still better than either the D or the R.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:31AM
Its funny how the whole world is now being introduced to dirty dealings of Trump almost everyday. Everyday there is an article on NYT and The Economist and The Guardian crapping all over Trump. One almost wonders what would have happened if so much shit was hurled at him before his election.
Oh wait, no.... there was only 1 thing that was important, wasn't it? He hates women..... grabs pussy.... and if you don't support HC you hate women..... I suppose even if Russian connection is true, in the eyes of the libtards grabbing pussy was a clear indicator the conservatives should have foreseen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @09:12PM
I think the HRC / Trump reference is about you not having to address your own problems because you can deflect on to something else. You took the bait and reeeeally ran with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @06:22PM
No, it does not! Non-progressive people are regressive, and regression is not progressive! It moves things backwards, loses money for the company, causes tribalism to re-emerge! Nope, conservatives that are openly conservative, with racist, misogynist, classist and pedophilic tendencies, need to be purged from the workplace. Think of it as kind of a "final solution".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by i286NiNJA on Monday August 07 2017, @10:36PM (1 child)
No. It's true. Anyone who makes statements that sound anything like "Some large percentage of the people I work with are inferior... oh but with caveats don't you worry!!" is not worth keeping around.
That person is going to be a problem for a number of reasons. If you're going to cause trouble at least say something clever like "I think that PoC womyn and trans-women must be oppressing thin upper class white women of thin white richness because they're by the numbers the least represented of all womyn-types in engineering!"
I get that SJWs have waged a mostly unfair battle on nerds lately but they do it because nerds are socially stupid enough to fall into their traps. Which this guy did by attempting some sort of serious discussion. The only way to win this is not to play at all and certainly don't attempt to argue with them or defend your ideas. If you must open your yap the only thing that should come out is condescending mockery. As people watch these guys poisoning causes and failing to bring about useful social changes of any kind despite their nonstop successful fundraising then they'll lose their pull in places like google... engaging them at google is exactly what they need so they have a controlled environment to get the data and stories they'll use to publish their next round of garbage.
If all they had to talk about for a year was their own failures to deliver (social change, patron promises, new products, outright killing once productive social movements) then they would dry up and fuckoff but nerds react with pathetic impotent flailing so they continue to have a nonstop roster of enemies to fight and they can distract from their own fraud by publishing a continual play-by-play of the action. How many shitty buzzfeed articles have you see like "Oh a sexist dumb guy said something on twitter and then you won't believe how PWNED he was!"
It's just an easy out for some blue haired lollapalooza studies major to shit out 1000 words so they can call it good, collect some favors from the friends they namedropped, and make happy hour in time for free-range mango IPAs, avocado bacon toast and a shot of cruelty-free heroin before bed. It's exactly what they were trained to do in school.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @10:46PM
^ This guy gets laid, 100% guaranteed.