Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Te...
by matthewmacleod on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:06AM
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I don’t understand the point you are attempting to make. These are all political acts. The fact that you like some of them and dislike others doesn’t change that. Even the choice of sketching the “hard-done-by innocent researcher cruelly hounded out of his job” is a political act. This is the point - how do you isolate that from the workplace when it’s clearly so tied up in it?
Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Te...
by cameronbrown on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:27AM
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He's/she's saying that acknowledging the effects of diversity hiring is political because it implies you don't like the concept if you're speaking against it.
Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Te...
by tripzilch on Friday November 15, 2019 @05:29AM
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You presented evidence for a negative?
I don't really believe that people should be expected to respect inane illogical arguments just because they have a political side to it.
In fact, doing knowledge work, being unable to form a coherent argument or inability to distinguish faulty logical arguing, would in fact make you a lot less qualified for it.
Maybe you’re recruiting, and they let slip that they passed over a white male candidate because they're working on a new diversity initiative. Or maybe, after being trained constantly on gender bias and seeing vigorous workplace political debates on the subject, you investigate the issue and find no evidence to support anything other than the fact that men and women have different preferences, and you present this evidence to the debate and get fired.
Even acknowledging such cases seems to be political.