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Re:New lawsuit says Google refused to hire white and Asian men by golem14 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:31PM (#16516130)
Bashing Google over this on HN (and elsewhere) seems close to (persistent) astroturfing to me. It would be interesting to actually do the work and investigate where the various mentions on HN (and the original articles) come from.

But then again, this stuff sells in the news, so why suspect ulterior motives ;)

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Re:New lawsuit says Google refused to hire white and Asian men by dang on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:19PM (#16516810)
It breaks the site guidelines to insinuate that behavior you disagree with must be astroturfing. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I realize it's a very persuasive-feeling impression. It's increasingly the first thing people bring up to account for disagreement, but that is a huge problem. Overwhelmingly the real reason for disagreement is that people just disagree, and we get nowhere by pretending otherwise.

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