Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mr_spothawk on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:07AM (#14954142)

this is almost certainly the reason.

he'd have been better off if he said

> "we should expect to see people with certain characteristics in tech, in the same way we see people with certain characteristics in race-car driving. that's no reason to discriminate positively or negatively against race car driver candidates."

I think he did make a point similar to that. Unfortunately he stirred the hornets nest (most, I think) by pointing to the gender-wage relationship.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by nerflad on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:17AM (#14954213)

And you just (mostly) summarized it with a single sentence. The fact that such a screed was written at all is a problem. These kinds of arguments require very precise language in order to minimize misunderstandings and deflections.

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