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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 hemocyanin on Thursday August 10 2017, @04:38AM
The problem is that he cited no research about race, just about different preferences women and men have. During this kerfluffle I've been reading a number of things and seems not so much to be a male/female issue, as a testosterone issue during gestation and thereafter. It's like the differing chemicals running through the brains of most men and women, are programming us to behave and desire differently. I have no expertise in this area so I can't talk with any authority, but it is interesting reading (and viewing, e.g., the documentary on Norway, the most equal country, with ever widening gender gaps in employment types).
Anyway, it's pretty obvious that in today's society, that looking into differences between the sexes is forbidden (Damore). As is objecting to certain kinds of racism (Bret Weinstein), as is merely suggesting working with natural opponents on those issues for which there is agreement (Caitlin Johnstone).
And so you know, I'm a pinko Green -- I just see the attacks on freedom of thought from the left, aside from being astonishingly ferocious and Godwinesque, as being extremely misguided and dangerous. Kind of like how Democrats never complained while Obama pushed executive authority, as if it never occurred to them that a Cheney type or a Trump could wield that same power. Forcing people to shut up and toe the line is beyond stupid no matter what side of things you are on, because inevitably, there will be a day when it is YOU being repressed.