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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by throw_away_777 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:25PM (#14953811)
The truth of what he said has nothing to do with why he was fired. He was fired for not being politically correct and offending people, not because his arguments were right or wrong. People are usually most outraged by statements which are true or close to true but which they do not want to believe.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by santoshalper on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:40AM (#14954756)
No, we're mostly offended by ideas that are false and actively harm people - like the entirely unproven notion that women suffer from biological weaknesses that make them less likely to be qualified as engineers.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by microcolonel on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:21PM (#14960072)
> No, we're mostly offended by ideas that are false and actively harm people - like the entirely unproven notion that women suffer from biological weaknesses that make them less likely to be qualified as engineers.

All good, except he did not make that argument or anything similar to it. He did not state that women inherently suffer from biological weaknesses of any sort. And no, his ideas did not harm anyone (except perhaps indirectly himself). Literally nobody got hurt except him, he is the sole victim of the ordeal.

I hope that you have read the document in its original form, which is a PDF with some (admittedly weak) references.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mirko22 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:41AM (#14957169)
But that is only because you did not study psychology in which case you would know that most things in that manifesto are scientifically proven and what he said does makes sense for women AS A GROUP not individually... :/
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by lardo on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:46AM (#14955453)
differences
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by themacguffinman on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:16AM (#14956230)
Differences that cause someone to be less qualified are called "weaknesses".
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