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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by vanniv on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:43PM (#21549098)
Google very much courted political activists in it's employee base, and encouraged its employees to participate in 'woke' culture.

All seemed great for a while, and then suddenly one day, management found itself the target of the woke cancel culture they fostered.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by paulgb on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:21PM (#21550023)
As a former Googler, I'm curious what you are referring to by this:

> encouraged its employees to participate in 'woke' culture.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by mav3rick on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:17PM (#21550986)
They know nothing about Google culture. What they know is from HN threads and The Intercept.
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by vanniv on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:34PM (#21566233)
That is an interesting conclusion to jump to.

It is, however, incorrect.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by username90 on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:59AM (#21551414)
People didn't get fired for participating in left wing activism on the job before, but now they are. I'm not sure if it counts as "encouraging 'woke' culture", but most companies would have put a stop to it way earlier.
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