In a mind bending move, Google has fired the author of a memo that suggested that bias against women at the company — and in tech fields in general — may not be as much about gender discrimination as about biological differences and the preferences of women.
It’s mind bending because in the statement following the circulation of the memo around the company, Danielle Brown, Google’s new VP for for diversity, integrity and governance, said that James Damore, the author of the memo, violated the company’s code of conduct which includes an “unequivocal” belief “that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company.”
“We’ll continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul,” Brown’s statement said.
Diversity and inclusion, but only of the approved and accepted kind, apparently.
And Damore — who was officially fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes after being slammed by his fellow employees as someone not fit to work with — didn’t express the right kind of diversity ideas and therefore should not be included.
As I said, mind bending.
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Google could have chosen to talk about why girls choose to work with “people not things” and begun to change the way they appeal to women workers. Instead they did exactly as Ben Shapiro says:
Google: Women improve workplaces because they are different from men.
Memo Guy: Women are different, on average, from men.
Google: Fired.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 8, 2017
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Google Values Diversity (Just Not of Thought) https://t.co/eTZc3rXsAU
— RedState (@RedState) August 8, 2017
Guy writes memo complaining that @google is not inclusive of right-leaning political ideology. So they fired him.
They sure showed him. https://t.co/5kJamksbkO
— Ben (@BenHowe) August 8, 2017
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