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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by danso on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:05PM (#14953079)
Apparently Google doesn't think that it has lowered the bar for women and minority candidates. So the memo's author has effectively raised a "Have you stopped beating your mother?" begging-type question. Should people get fired for poor rhetorical reasoning? Probably not, but this one happened to imply the inferiority of certain groups of employees.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by red75prime on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:55PM (#14953586)
Apparently Google fired the person. Apparently Google can't say that it has lowered the bar, as it will be PR disaster.

"Google doesn't think it has lowered the bar" is implied, not apparent.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by xname2 on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:50PM (#14953533)
You only said "probably not", so you are also implying it is probably true. Why didn't you just say "absolutely not"?
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by qu4z-2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:30AM (#14954321)
That's not how probably works. GP is only implying it's potentially true, presumably because they aren't sure they've fully considered every angle of the question and there may be weird edge cases.

Let's not Purity Test people for showing some humbleness in their beliefs. We could probably use more of that these days.

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