Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by bryanrasmussen on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:33PM (#27385454)

I did not say it was a viable strategy for ending the war I said it was a viable strategy for minimizing and hopefully removing completely culpability for the actions of one's society.

on edit: as an example we can say with some surety that the one white man in 1800s American that should not be charged with culpability for slavery would be John Brown (although he probably would not feel the same way) - there are undoubtedly others but we can point with some justification at John Brown and say that guy pretty much not to blame for any of that shit.

I'm certainly not recommending that people have to do these things either, just to being clear eyed about things - you can't benefit from your society's actions and then say you don't share any blame from what it does without some extreme dropping out of the system.

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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by sneak on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:39PM (#27385532)

I don't agree. One cannot be responsible for one's actions taken under threat of coercive violence. The violent aggressor remains responsible for the outcome in that instance.

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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by fighterpilot on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:46PM (#27385631)

So to be clear, as a corollary of the standards you've defined here, 1.3-1.4 billion Chinese have some level of culpability for what's going on with the Uyghurs?

I mean, I can see where you're coming from. But at this point we are really at the fringes of culpability and it's more of an issue of semantics and definitions.

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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by bryanrasmussen on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:51PM (#27385713)

as I also clearly stated earlier "...for some people it is so minimal it hardly warrants mentioning"

so yes, each of those 1.3 billion probably have an atom of culpability, so minimal it hardly warrants mentioning.

I'm a citizen of Denmark, I have some share of culpability in the wrongs my country does - I do a little to minimize those wrongs (when I see them) by voting against the perpetrators but that's about it - I support the country and it is partly my fault because I am too comfortable to do what would be required to completely absolve myself of any culpability because hey, I'm pretty okay (as most people throughout history have said)

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