hot take: the Memo is bullshit but firing the author was a really bad move. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo …
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Replying to @comex
I don’t usually agree with right-wing accusations of leftist censorship, but this does smack of censorship.
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Read https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788 …. It's not about censorship, it's about the toxicity the memo creates. Nobody would want to work with that guy.
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Surprise: lots of completely normal people feel this way but don't talk about it. For fear of being… *gasp*… FIRED
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Replying to @NSExceptional @comex
It's possible to start a healthy debate about some of these issues without creating a complete shitstorm like this guy did.
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His letter was stated as carefully and dispassionately as possible. There is literally no way to talk about the issue at hand safely.
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Replying to @NSExceptional @comex
The problem isn't the presentation, which was OK, but the subtext and arguments. I agree with some, but others are way out of line.
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It is true that currently it's very, very difficult to start a healthy debate about this stuff, but he did a terrible job.
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