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Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by Aeolun on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:11AM (#14977874)
Publishing something on an internal board that's aimed at discussing diversity is hardly 'publishing the rant for all the world to see'. I just don't get how people who're obviously upset about this memo and must therefore have spent some time reading up about it (right? Right?!) still get this basic fact wrong.

This guy expressed his opinions, and a witch hunting mob, because that's what it was, descended on him from all over the internet to rip his reputation to shreds for things he didn't do or write (most of the outrage was about 'perceived' slights).

It's just sad... The worst part was that it validated a lot of what he said, and people somehow just don't see the irony in that.

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Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by timgrahamtech on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:18AM (#14978209)
Let's not pretend he didn't know what he was doing. There are textbook examples about people who blast off a rant to the entire company and then are somehow surprised when it becomes public (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...).
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Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by alexknvl on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:46AM (#14978700)
It wasn't even meant for the entire company. He gave it to a small community of people within Google who later distributed it across the company AFAIU from his interview with Jordan Peterson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU).
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Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by rtx on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:24AM (#14978556)
Again he didn't share it with the entire company.
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Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by dcole2929 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:21PM (#14983162)
He shared it in a forum that any and everyone in the company can access, and is intended to be able to access. That's essentially the same thing. This wasn't a private email chain that was leaked but an intentional dissemination by the engineer to google's employees at large.
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