
Lawsuit Exposes Internet Giant’s Internal Culture of Intolerance - YouAreGreat
http://quillette.com/2018/02/01/lawsuit-exposes-internet-giants-internal-culture-intolerance/
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qbaqbaqba
Oh no, another interesting news concerning google getting immediately flagged.
Googlers, please don't be evil, at least provide your motives.

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pentae
The motive seems pretty clear - cover up, accuse, and be a hypocrite.

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ben_jones
These two statements struck me:

> At a “Diversity Team Kickoff” event, a director announced plans “to freeze
> headcount so that teams could find diversity candidates to help fill the
> empty roles,”

> Next time you get invited to speak at a conference, especially if you’re a
> white male – ask the organizer to confirm you’re the only white male on the
> panel / in the speaker lineup. If not, say you are honored, but must
> decline, and give the reason. And because you are at Google, guess what –
> they’re going to change the panel for you.

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xkcd-sucks
Sounds like a really good tutorial on leveraging your privilege to marginalize
someone

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rhapsodic
Damore's lawsuit is a huge story in the tech industry, yet, for some reason,
stories about it always get flagged on HN.

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rhapsodic
It' frightening to learn how many hateful, vindictive people have settled into
positions of power at one of the most powerful companies in the world.

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gorbachev
The comments on that article remind me why I should never read comments on
online articles.

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jacksmith21006
Maybe an unpopular view on HN but I have no problem with Google letting Damore
go.

Work is to do work and in the US you often times do not even know who the
person one cube over voted for.

Damore shared his views on Reddit without using Google name is fine but at
work and multiple times even after told to stop is going to be a problem, imo.

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mankash666
If Google treated all poiltical discourse within it's walls like it did
Damore, there probably wouldn't be an issue. The whole problem is with
favoring one type of speech/thought in a militant fashion that violates
federal law.

And regardless of the law, it's UNETHICAL to discriminate in the name of
diversity. In 2018, companies are expected to do the right thing. This article
paints a very damaging picture of Google discriminating against white males
(Disclaimer: I'm NOT a white male)

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nezzle
> it's UNETHICAL to discriminate in the name of diversity.

I think Amazon disagrees with you. They include this in their job postings:

>Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority /
Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

I don't think you can be both equal opportunity and affirmative action at the
same time.

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mankash666
You've completely misunderstood & mis-represented my viewpoint. Equal
Opportunity-Affirmative Action IS the law of the land, and that's the same law
that forbids setting artificial quotas for ANY group that discriminates
against others. For instance, some Google execs called for a 25% minority
quota - THAT is discrimination against other groups, especially if the overall
statistics in the talent pool/job market make it impossible for the said quota
to be fulfilled in a manner compliant with "Equal Opportunity-Affirmative
Action"

For instance, you might want to setup a workforce of coders with a 50-50 Men-
Women breakdown. But since STEM graduation rates indicate a Men:Women ratio of
85:15, it is unlikely, if not impossible to construct a 50:50 workforce
without willfully discriminating against men. If you now force the entire
industry to adopt the 50:50 rule with a 85:15 talent pool to choose from,
you're both discriminating AND defying logic/math!!

In summary - no corporation can possibly disagree with me for I'm calling for
the law to be followed as intended.

