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Re:Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity by lliamander on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:08PM (#14964673)
The point is: the employee had concerns about working conditions at Google and how Google was pursuing it's goals. He even offered (what he believed) were useful suggestions. Other employees had similar concerns.

Instead of answering his concerns, they fired him because they thought his suggestions were offensive (or rooted in offensive ideology).

Re:Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:55AM (#14966411)
> they thought his suggestions were offensive

Not only were they offensive, they had no grounding in reality and made it impossible for many people there to work with or trust him.

Re:Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity by anon12345690 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:00AM (#14968865)
and here we go -- it wasnt an academic paper but it was completely based on facts. biologically, men and women are different, and they think differently and so no matter how much society and culture impacts you, that biology will ever so slightly bias every decision in your life and may be part of the mismatch in representation between genders.

the idea that females and males LIKE different things and its IN PART based on biology, is completely real and valid and not offensive in the slightest.

Re:Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity by kafkaesq on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:49PM (#14971089)
So you know that it's entirely possible to write something that's "based on facts" -- with nice diagrams and all! -- yet when we consider the whole cloth of what's being said, it turns out to be fatally flawed -- and basically a load of tripe?

That's what this "manifesto" was.

Re:Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity by anon12345690 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:53PM (#14972935)
i summarized it right there, what part do you think is flawed?

if you're saying men/women think identically, then there is even no reason for gender diversity because it only becomes physical differences at that point, do you realize that?

Re:Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity by kafkaesq on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:54PM (#14973501)
There was way, way more to his "manifesto" than what's in your summary, actually.