Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’

Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by rootusrootus on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:13AM (#20715949)

Or "I am focused on other things and not giving this topic my consideration."

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by stonogo on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:14AM (#20715981)

That falls under "I am happy with the status quo." There are people who are not fortunate enough to be able to ignore these things.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by seattle_spring on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:27PM (#20718060)

If I checked your comment history, would I see you fighting for fixing the outsized amount of suicides committed by men in the USA? If not, do you think it'd be reasonable to assume you're happy with the current state of affairs in that arena?

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by rootusrootus on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:22AM (#20716075)

There are many more issues to be solved than there are seconds in a day. Being unable to focus on everything does not mean you are happy with it.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by samfriedman on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:46AM (#20716336)

At the very least it signals that your ranking of importance for a given issue may be lower than someone else's.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by rootusrootus on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:54PM (#20717047)

Which is totally expected. No two people align 100% on priorities.

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