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from the diversity-of-opinion-department dept.
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: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @08:27PM (8 children)
You're simplistic understanding of the world can not be reasoned with and you do not understand very much about human biology beyond whatever you learned in highschool.
Ad hominem? Try being less of a ignoramus by perhaps educating yourself and you won't be subjected to such methods.
There is a reason homosexual individuals exist, in humans and other animals. It is because "gender" is not quite a clear-cut as simplistic folks such as yourself would like to believe. Pretending like science is a SJW narrative really shows your own bias. You can pretend you're a smart person all day on the internet but when you spout off on things you don't fully understand then you are really just a donkey braying at a scary tree.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @08:34PM (7 children)
Again, you fail.
Fail to understand the difference between actual biology and ginned-up feel-good pseudo-science.
Fail to see that not everyone in the STEM world buys into the pop-culture crappola that gets fobbed off as "research."
Fail to comprehend that disagreement =/= ignorance. I'll gladly put my MSEE up against your AA in Interpersonal Community Development or whatever shite major you think makes you sound superior.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @09:04PM (4 children)
They did studies, you know, on conservative brains, and they found out that conservative brains are different than normal brains, and focus much more on the reptilian, fear factor part of the brain. But since this is a real, factual, and scientific fact, it explains why conservatives think that there is a real, biological difference between male and female brains, since their brains are hardwired to expect this and to fear all that liberal "sciencey" psychobabble that liberals try to trick them into, using big words and serendipity to promote equality and diversity.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @09:52PM (1 child)
It really is the only thing that makes sense, so much of the negative attributes from conservatives boil down to fear and anger intertwined. They see everything outside their personal world bubble as scary and WRONG, with tolerance only being given to things that are far removed from their lives.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:20AM
The first time someone asked me who is more driven due to fear between conservatives and liberals, I said conservative. The reason? Because they are trying to "conserve" something that is under attack by liberals. There was no real need to bring "science" into it but still apparently it helps liberals avoid any discussion and just promote hatred of an outgroup. Hey hey! Liberals are just as politically devoid of any moral standing as they accuse others of! Who knew?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @11:55PM (1 child)
Conservative? You presumptuous, conceited twat. I'm a life-long Anarcho-syndicalist (see: Noam Chomsky).
I'm just not trapped in the PC echo chamber like most Leftists.
I can therefore extrapolate that you're wrong about everything else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @01:05AM
Sweet Mohammed on a communion cracker!! I hadn't thought about it like that! Well, since this AC has shown me the light I will refrain from mocking this thread further.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 07 2017, @09:10PM (1 child)
It isn't pop culture psychobabble, but I see where you got your expertise in biology from... Oh wait, you're one of those conservative electrical engineers who thinks their expertise with circuits has shit-all to do with the rest of science. At least you're not one of the self-educated "geniuses", but due to your expertise you have thus applied that to every field possible assuming that you know everything. Science marches on, and gender is much more fluid. Hermaphrodytes? Homosexuals? The fact that brain structure does not always equate to penis or vagina.
Failure to comprehend your own limitations is your problem. You write off uncomfortable topics as pop-culture garbage and get mad at my ad-hominems? lol, intellectually dishonest / ignorant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @02:38AM
You contards can't muster up decent rebuttals, GJ you circle jerking jerks :P
Glad to see the alt-right has fully taken over, all the people threatening to leave have pretty much done so. Way to create an echo chamber you geniuses.