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Google fires James Damore for memo on echochamber
Karl Marx:
--- Quote from: Acerblock on August 09, 2017, 08:51:40 PM ---https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788
Admittedly before I started to really look into this, I read this article and sided with the author. What do you guys think?
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A thinkpiece on medium dot com has more factual depth and relevancy than a stuffty manifesto passed around the Google office by some under-qualified manchild. Interesting.
Conan:
--- Quote from: Acerblock on August 09, 2017, 08:51:40 PM ---https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788
Admittedly before I started to really look into this, I read this article and sided with the author. What do you guys think?
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what do you mean by the author? the author of this article, or of the memo? I sided with the memo author initially before reading this article, and still think he didn't do anything severely wrong other than point 3 listed in the article you linked.
i cant make any judgements on his point 1 or 2 since i didn't actually have the opportunity to go through the memo in depth, but another article i read supporting the memo author quoted relevant swaths of the memo that refer to the evidence he puts forth, and it looks like a valid enough point. however, the fact that the memo itself creates a hostile work environment is enough grounds imo to fire a person.
Tactical Nuke:
Gizmodo actually edited the "manifesto" (it's a loving memo you dips calm down) to not include any of the graphs, sources or fancy editing. Here's the ACTUAL unedited memo:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
All of his claims are backed by science and notable sources like The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. This kid has a Master of Science from Harvard and a BS from the University of Illinois, both degrees SPECIFICALLY in Biology. He knows what the forget he's talking about. Better yet, he was a leftist who had suggested a better way of getting women into tech than using diversity quotas and discriminatory hiring. To say that this guy was a troll who pulled things out of his ass to piss some people off is wrong on all levels.
The best part is that everything he said got proven true not even a day after he was fired. He says that Google has a problem with different opinions, and they fire him, saying that they don't like his opinions. He says women on average tend to be more emotional and on average take more sick days, and a substantial group of women got so offended that they collectively took a sick day. Things couldn't get any better for this guy.
GRIMLOCK_:
Kimon dismisses your post because COMMUNISM
beachbum111111:
--- Quote from: GRIMLOCK_ on August 09, 2017, 09:18:57 PM ---Kimon dismisses your post because thinking is hard
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Fixed