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Re: Religious Discrimination at Google

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Post by l33t2328 »

KaiserPro wrote: post #155
l33t2328 wrote: post #146

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Ranking skin color above money in the USA is…interesting.

You can change your wealth much easier than you can change your race. Sure a rich person will have it a fucktonne easier than a poor person, regardless of race. However race is the first thing you see. As someone who is from the outside, Its especially obvious at points where the state or large institutions interact. (ie property, banking, police, airports etc etc)

Of course you can’t change your race, but we’re talking about some American analog of the caste system. Race just isn’t nearly as large a factor as money. Not even close

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Post by eitland »

jl6 wrote: post #78
eitland wrote: post #54

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At the same time, the regime that killed absolutely most people last century were staunchly anti religious: the USSR.

The USSR, with a cult of personality around the leader, unquestionable doctrines, restraint on free thinking, and its own set of truths at odds with reality? Funny how they managed to stay anti-religious while keeping all the best bits of religion.

Atheism, more religious than religion, a common theme also on internet today :-/

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Post by eurasiantiger »

ekianjo wrote: post #139
eurasiantiger wrote: post #101

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> Catholics were responsible for several huge discoveries in science and science is absolutely in line with the religion This comes off as hugely apologetic. I’m not sure whether Copernicus would agree with the sentiment.

> I’m not sure whether Copernicus would agree with the sentiment. This shows your ignorance of History more than anything else.

Hmm. That is what I was taught, living in a Protestant country.

And it would seem I was taught just fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#Tolosani

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Post by slightwinder »

hackyhacky wrote: post #3

In this article, the author doesn't provide any concrete example of the religious discrimination that he's allegedly experienced, or how it's impacted him in any way. It seems that he's very eager to play the victim. A good example of his rush to victimhood is when he tells how he confronted leadership about why Google hasn't opened an engineering office in Louisiana. He seems to take the fact that Google doesn't hav…

My impression is, they are very careful to not break any law. They are also giving some examples on personal level, but people here don't accept them, because it plays in their prejudice of the justified behavior against the religious.

I don't think it's up to us to decide how true or false the accusations are. People from Google reading this should reflect on their own behavior and environment, and whether they match this or not. Everyone else can only do the same for their own life and company.

But the important thing here is, people here seems to not understand such problems, if they are not delivered in concrete wording and explanation. Empathy(?) here is too low to understand and evaluate a situation from just vague explanations. And that is a serious problem in itself, leading to such problems.

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Post by eitland »

diordiderot wrote: post #115
eitland wrote: post #54

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At the same time, the regime that killed absolutely most people last century were staunchly anti religious: the USSR.

Yeah but most weren't killed because of religion, and religion lived on for the people in the USSR, just not as societies organising body. Add up deaths in the name of religion this century and get back to me

We can wrangle around this, but absolutely most civilian deaths in the twentieth century was caused by very atheists regimes.

And yes, that holds true even if you include Hitlers regime on the religious side despite the fact that major religious factions were against him.

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Post by smitty1e »

Renaud wrote: post #51
krisoft wrote: post #23

Quoting the most concrete example he gives: > If you start talking about your religious beliefs at a social event people treat you like you just farted in their face. They frequently will scrunch up their faces and might ask a question like “Do you REALLY believe all that stuff?” When you tell them that you do they might even go so far as to say “Sorry that’s just not the kind of thing I associate with someone as sma…

It’s quite baffling to me that people would start talking about religion at social events that are not related to religion in the first place. To me, one of the basic rules of social etiquette is never talk about religion or politics unless you’re amongst people who share your views or it’s a specific religious or political gathering. If I’m attending a social function, I certainly don’t want to hear about your relig…

> It’s quite baffling to me that people would start talking about religion at social events that are not related to religion in the first place.

A major component of the current crisis is the willingness of some to scuttle traditional norms amd mores.

One is now subject to evangelistic browbeatings from the "Woke" along Orwellian lines.

Satan is now cast in orange, according to this faith, and the networks genuflected for two hours of televangelism in prime time on Thursday the 9th.

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Post by kaba0 »

k1ll3r wrote: post #147
kaba0 wrote: post #82

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> And if you need to read in some book that oppression is bad, that murdering people is bad, that basic human rights are a good idea, etc I mean, you just called generations upon generations bad people.. Like, morals also evolve with society, and everyone is influenced by the society they grow up in. Just a very easy counterexample -- gladiator fights were perfectly acceptable in people in Rome. Were they bad people…

Yes.

Okay - do you think you would/wouldn’t have participated in the games as a viewer were you born in the times?

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Post by xiphias2 »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #148
xiphias2 wrote: post #76

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Try talking about it aggressively with everybody all the time (try your accepting colleagues to come to the weekly prayers), and I guess you will get bad feedback at some point. I have a friend who's in the church of scientology, but he never tried to convience me that Xeno alien god took over human souls.

> he never tried Are you sure this isn't because you aren't rich enough? :)

We both worked at Google and had the same salary, so I'm sure
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