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posted by takyon on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the conversation-starter dept.

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Alphabet Inc.'s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company's diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley. James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, saying that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes." He said he's "currently exploring all possible legal remedies."

[...] Earlier on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees that said portions of the memo "violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace." But he didn't say if the company was taking action against the employee. A Google representative, asked about the dismissal, referred to Pichai's memo.

[...] After the controversy swelled, Danielle Brown, Google's new vice president for diversity, integrity and governance, sent a statement to staff condemning Damore's views and reaffirmed the company's stance on diversity. In internal discussion boards, multiple employees said they supported firing the author, and some said they would not choose to work with him, according to postings viewed by Bloomberg News.

"We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company," Brown said in the statement. "We'll continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul."

Source: Bloomberg.

[Update: Apparently Julian Assange has offered James Damore a job, saying that "Censorship is for losers". - Fnord666]

Previously: Googler's Memo on Culture of Diversity Extremism Goes Viral Inside Google


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:26PM (9 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:26PM (#550746)

    This reminds me of a particular Spaniard....

    What exactly did he think would happen?

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by edIII on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:38PM (4 children)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:38PM (#550749)

    What exactly did he think would happen?

    That we would magically be transported back the 1950's where all the women at Google were in high heels and employed as secretaries?

    That being said, IIRC he put in a complaint with the NLRB beforehand. That does indicate he was expecting a fight that would require union assistance to win.

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    • (Score: 4, Touché) by unauthorized on Tuesday August 08 2017, @09:17PM (2 children)

      by unauthorized (3776) on Tuesday August 08 2017, @09:17PM (#550775)

      That we would magically be transported back the 1950's where all the women at Google were in high heels and employed as secretaries?

      Or perhaps that people would see discrimination against people based on sex and skin pigmentation is wrong? Naah, can't be that, he is a white man, he must have some evil ulterior motive that ultimately leads to gassing the Jews!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:04AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:04AM (#550902)

        Was this guy in HR? Was he making hiring decisions? NO? Then where the fuck is your "discrimination?" Go fuck yourself. I can smell a commie like you a mile away.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @08:56AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @08:56AM (#551027)

          I can smell a commie like you a mile away.

          Is this because they are stealing your vital essence fluids? "Never see a Commie drink water, do ya, Mandrake."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @11:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @11:50PM (#550828)

      In the 1950's the women at Google were still in their mother's imagination.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:50PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 08 2017, @08:50PM (#550761) Journal

    This reminds me of a particular Spaniard....

    Inigo Montoya?

    who famously said

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday August 08 2017, @09:13PM (2 children)

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday August 08 2017, @09:13PM (#550774)

      I think you're projecting.

      From Wikipedia: [wikipedia.org]
      "[Quixotism] also serves to describe an idealism without regard to practicality. An impulsive person or act might be regarded as quixotic."
      "Quixotism is usually related to "over-idealism", meaning an idealism that doesn't take consequence or absurdity into account."
      Also, from here: [wikipedia.org]
      "It may also connote an importune, unfounded, and vain effort against adversaries real or imagined for a vain goal."

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:57AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:57AM (#550963)

        But, American! Here is the end of Chapter 42 of Moby Dick: the original:

        Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color; and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows- a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues- every stately or lovely emblazoning- the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge- pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear colored and coloring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him. And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?

        Wonder ye then, at the fiery hunt for the White Male?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @07:12AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @07:12AM (#550987)

          so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.

          Interesting analogy; snowblindness, and blindness to white male privilege, what are the odds that Melville intended such a meaning? What are the odds that the White Male in question has read Moby Dick? Truely, these are the days of high American illiteracy!