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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe right is coming out in support of the fired author of the Google manifesto
Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo attacking the company's diversity policies a move that has instantly turned the author into a hero of the right and threatens to ignite a Silicon Valley culture war.
The memo argued that Google should focus on "ideological diversity," and criticised its efforts to increase gender and racial diversity, suggesting biological differences may be the reason for disparities in hiring in the tech industry.
"We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism," the author wrote.
The author, James Damore, was subsequently fired, : "To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK."
But the Damore's departure from Google isn't the end of this story. His memo and the action taken against him is being held up by many on the right as an example of alleged censorship and the purported dangers of "political correctness."
A few examples: Breitbart, the far-right news site, is currently leading with the story, writing that "witch hunts are a well-known cultural problem" at Google and that "psychologicsts claim [the] manifesto [is] scientifically accurate."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-right-is-coming-out-in-support-of-the-fired-author-of-the-google-manifesto/ar-AApHRTe?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp
whathehell
(29,050 posts)For my own sense of sanity, I'm hoping that none of them were women, at least.
Phoenix61
(16,999 posts)Why should he have been fired for telling the truth?
whathehell
(29,050 posts)Yeah..A hundred years ago we were "biologically unsuited" to vote.
niyad
(113,205 posts)whathehell
(29,050 posts)I know the Coultergeist said something to that effect awhile ago, but I've never heard of any others.
niyad
(113,205 posts)whathehell
(29,050 posts)In The Handmaiden's Tale world, maybe but not in this one.
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