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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
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @01:23AM (6 children)
Ok, I tried your thought experiment.
And it doesn't fit, because the appeals to well-investigated science in question don't map to those other categories. What he said was founded in specific, well-explored scientific fields on sex differences.
But even so, assuming that he had similarly well-explored science backing him up, mutatis mutandis, with respect to, for example, hispanic people, it wouldn't have been problematic.
What you seem to have missed was that he was saying that Google is being sexist, and racist, and bigoted with respect to politics, and he was trying to get them to undo their sexism and racism and bigotry.
Now read it again, with attention. There will be a test next Thursday.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @01:30AM (5 children)
FTFY.
First, they came out with Faux News, and I said nothing.
Then, they came out with fake news, and I said nothing.
After that, they came out with fake science, and I had to say, WTF?
(Score: 2, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday August 09 2017, @02:12AM (4 children)
Um, I'm pretty certain the research hasn't come from Republicans. They're just as beholden to and invested in social gender theory as feminists are.
Granted, there was some transphobic Christian think-tank that almost got it right, if only their analysis had included the brain being a gendered organ. So close, and yet so far.
I know—empirical evidence such as male children, like normal male children, not intersexed etc, who are raised from birth as girls (one famous case of a botched circumcision resulting in complete genital amputation… would that I could trade places with that person but c'est la vie) nearly consistently transition to living as men later in life, despite being completely socialized from birth as a girl. Despite being injected with estrogen beginning at the medically appropriate age iirc.
Empirical evidence is just simply not convenient for social gender theory. It also has the strange side-effect of legitimizing the experiences of every trans man (and trans woman) out there. How odd, and how un-feminist, no?
Fuck your caste system.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 09 2017, @04:08AM
Meh, the ones who insist gender is entirely social and the ones who insist it's entirely biological are both equally wrong and both for the same reason: they don't seem to understand the idea of emergent properties. The intersection and interactions of a person's brain structure, prenatal environment, hormones, cultural ideas about gender, and individual experience all give rise to one's identity.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @10:49AM (2 children)
Could you please take your constant, and boring, tranny screeds somewhere more appropriate?
Every evil in the universe is not based in the travails of confused sexuality.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday August 09 2017, @01:51PM
No!
Next question?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday August 09 2017, @03:47PM
STFU asshole. Her "screeds" are completely relevant in this discussion thread, which in case your little brain didn't notice, is all about gender and the differences between genders.