Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity
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Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity
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#2Is any organization of meaningful size (# of employees, revenue, market cap - pick your metric) handling diversity issues in a way that completely satisfies the "proportional representation of the population" metric? Are there any success stories that one could use as case studies?
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#3"If the goal was to confirm Damore's thesis, Team Google is doing a great job."
Yes, indeed.
This is something we, as a culture, need to look at more carefully.
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#4Oh the irony...
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#5Wish I could paste that Michael Scott "Thank You" gif here.
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#6I am surprised how big this 'manifesto' got. Is it really that big of a deal that it a) got all the press that it got and b) that it required a personal condemnation from "Head of Diversity" and the CEO - who will now hold a town-hall to, I guess, denounce it even more?
The entire thing seems like a big nothing-burger from every side.
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#7> "Companies don’t have viewpoints."
They do. Not reacting would have been an endorsement. Many would want to think that these issues are apolitical, or scientific, or anything "neutral". They are not.
Make no mistake. This is a fight. A struggle between two visions of the world, maybe more. Such conflicts are not won over peaceful arguments. Sooner or later, one must take a stand, which is exactly what Google executives just did.
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#8What's more likely: the author was fired for suggesting alternate methods of improving diversity at Google or the author was fired for repeating unsupported gender stereotypes, offering alternate methods that themselves played on gender stereotypes, and creating an environment in which he would not be able to effectively carry out his responsibilities as a result of promoting gender stereotypes?
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#9Has he set Google up for this blowup or do Americans just usually have complaints to federal regulators written and ready to send?
Before being fired, Mr. Damore said, he had submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board claiming that Google’s upper management was “misrepresenting and shaming me in order to silence my complaints.” He added that it was “illegal to retaliate” against an N.L.R.B. charge.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-eng...
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#10What this whole episode really seems to show is how authoritarianism has crept into our lives and how incredibly difficult it is to resist it even amongst highly educated people.
I would wager that none of the people calling for this person to be personally ruined, expelled from society, terminated from their job and forever vilified as an outcast would view themselves as authoritarian.
Not the Tweeters shaking with anger and demanding for him to get fired.
Not the Ex-Google guy with his medium rant about how people would punch him in the face and he would understand.
Not the diversity officer reaffirming the commitment to diversity in a dystopian way.
It is scary, it really is. We have all grown up learning about regimes like this, we are all aware, yet seemingly nobody can help themselves.