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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) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 09 2017, @04:04PM (2 children)
I also call bullshit. Despite decades of attempts to do so, progressives have failed to hide or negate all the evidence that women and men are DIFFERENT. Little girl children seldom act like little boy children, and vice versa. The jails and prisons are filled with males, and few women see the inside of either one, except in visiting rooms. There are a lot of reasons for that, and those reasons are not limited to cultural pressure.
Many of the supposed metrics that attempt to show differences between black and white, Hispanic and Asian, or whatever, are made up, bogus, cultural things. The differences between males and females cross all barriers, cultureal, ethnic, historical, religious, class, or any other barrier you wish to consider.
If 1/4, or 1/2, or even 3/4 of the population pretends that there is no difference between men and women, that doesn't mean I have to poke my own eyes out so that I can be as blind as they are.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:03PM (1 child)
Entirely correct. And it doesn't seem to occur to the ones who insist gender is entirely social and malleable that they're not only barking up the wrong tree, but hurting those they claim to help.
I would wager their fear is something like "People are going to abuse the science to attempt to *force* $GROUP into $ROLE." And this is a legitimate fear, as proven time and time again by everything from eugenics to "race realism" to the questionable psychology of the 19th century (Freud etc.) has shown.
But lies never were beaten with worse lies. What we need here is 1) acknowledgement that these differences exist, and 2) realization that, especially in the modern world, they don't mean as much as they did before. The problem is that most people are falling into the ought-from-is trap, that is, thinking that "Women are in general less spatially intelligent than men, THEREFORE, women can't into math hurr hurr hurr."
There are definitely physical differences between the sexes and the genders. I suspect very strongly I've got a somewhat masculinized brain, which would explain the interest in computers, lots of active voice during typing and speech, a tendency to want to fix problems rather than discuss them, and so forth. Denying reality, no matter how noble the aim, is only going to cause trouble long-term.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday August 11 2017, @12:39AM
Even if women are in general less spatially intelligent than men it doesn't mean every women is such. Thus there are women in positions that need spatial intelligence, just not that many.
Seems the public at large just doesn't grasp that general isn't equal to everyone.
But it might be, it's just very unlikely ;)