Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts

Re:Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversi... by xenity7 on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:32PM (#14950503)

I would encourage everyone here to actually go ahead and read the manifesto/letter. I did and was surprised by its tone, given the type of headline this situation is attracting.

I think the author makes some very calm and reasoned points and is attempting to start a discussion where he is open to being wrong.

I do NOT agree with all of the points he makes, but I think he is expressing his views in what is largely a respectful manner that is not, for the most part, racist or sexist in the way you might expect.

If he's wrong, and he IS wrong on some points, the proper reaction is to engage on these points because other people are thinking them too.

Encouraging diversity and inclusion means convincing and educating people at the margin like this guy, not virtue signaling and slamming them for not toeing the line.

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Re:Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversi... by avn2109 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:59PM (#14954089)

Can confirm, the headlines/summary articles are generally sensationalist/clickbaity. The actual document is more evenhanded than breathless journalists would have you believe.

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Re:Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversi... by neo4sure on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:17PM (#14960028)

This guy has PHD. I don't think education will solve the issues he has. Just like education would not have resolved any issues Hitler had. The ideas he espouses are hateful. I think examining his psychic would be more useful.

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