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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:18PM (#21548332)
> I wonder if companies like Google and GitHub that actively courted activists

You say that like it's a given truth - do you have anything to back up that assertion? FWIW, I don't recall Google courting "activists", though they obviously did court people who were highly invested in their education and careers, and of course there is probably a non-0 correlation with those types of people and "activists". I also wouldn't describe Google as "pro-politics". They certainly were pro-open-communication, but given their size now, and the complete change in the nature and temperature of political discussions over the past decade, it's not surprising at all that hey would be forced to change this.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by username90 on Saturday November 16, 2019 @02:02AM (#21551421)
> I also wouldn't describe Google as "pro-politics".

Google let employees spend company time and resources to do left-wing activism, how is that not "pro-politics"? The things you see coming from Google the past few years are the death throes of these rules being removed and Google becoming a conventional company where you have to work when you are on company time.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by malvosenior on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:27PM (#21548415)
> You say that like it's a given truth - do you have anything to back up that assertion?

Sure, and this is just one of many examples:

https://diversity.google/

They have been very proactive in this space for a long time.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by triceratops on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:37PM (#21548508)
How is trying cast a wider net in hiring the same as "courting activists"?
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by techie128 on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:42PM (#21548552)
I think their diversity initiatives failed miserable. They created a monoculture that is violently intolerant of diverse viewpoints.
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by dang on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:53PM (#21549894)
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by DoofusOfDeath on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:15PM (#21548843)
The GP talked about a diversity of viewpoints, but you're talking about diversity of race and sexual identity. At the very least, most persons don't consider race to be a viewpoint.
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by seba_dos1 on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:01PM (#21550214)
It would be a good distinction to make if only "intolerant of my viewpoint" wasn't usually an euphemism for "not letting me being a hateful person".
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by asguy on Saturday November 16, 2019 @10:35AM (#21553123)
It would be a good distinction to make if only "not letting me being a hateful person" wasn't usually an euphemism for "saying things you disagree with".

See that symmetry?

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