Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by humanrebar on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:25AM (#14956631)

I haven't read the code of conduct, and I'm disappointed the person was fired, but I presume there's a clause about saying bigoted things. And people consider parts of what he said bigoted.

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by shaggerty on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:38AM (#14958941)

Its intetesting how in the last couple years bigot has been redefined from "someone who is not tolerant of the opinions of others" to "anyone who disagrees with leftist moral thought"

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by talmand on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:45AM (#14958262)

I consider what you just said as bigoted. You should apologize and fall on your sword for my feelings.

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by jamesrcole on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:34AM (#14956693)

> And people consider parts of what he said bigoted.

Is it enough for some people to consider it that?

Consider gay marriage. Each side thinks the other is being bigoted towards some group. Do we just take people's words for it?

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by josteink on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:31AM (#14958853)

Looking at the response in this friend it is worringly normal to let you ever get most easily offended define what is reasonable.

This only leads to people getting increasingly sensitive over increasingly minor things and it's a vicious circle.

So how do we break it? How do we re-establish open discourse?

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by humanrebar on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:50AM (#14956806)

I agree. I'm just stating a possible justification for dismissal.

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