http://diversitymemo.com/
GOOGLE’S IDEOLOGICAL ECHO CHAMBER
"How bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion"
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/07/technology/google-anti-diversity-memo-engineer/index.html
"GOOGLE CEO: ANTI-DIVERSITY MEMO WAS 'OFFENSIVE AND NOT OK'
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has condemned portions of a controversial memo sent by a male engineer at the company who argued that women are not biologically fit for tech roles."
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-08/google-can-t-seem-to-tolerate-diversity
"GOOGLE CAN’T SEEM TO TOLERATE DIVERSITY
Silicon Valley won’t solve its gender issues if political correctness shuts down every conversation."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/08/googler-fired-diversity-memo-had-point-researchers-agree/548518001/
"GOOGLER FIRED FOR DIVERSITY MEMO HAD LEGIT POINTS ON GENDER
The most incendiary part of the 10-page document was the assertion that gender disparities at technology companies including Google (where women currently hold about 20% of tech jobs and 25% of leadership positions) are due at least in part to biological differences. Damore has been assailed for supposedly saying that “women are unsuited to tech jobs,” dismissing his female co-workers as “unqualified tokens,” or “demanding (an) end to inclusion of women” and minorities. But the memo says nothing of the kind. At most, Damore argues that because of innate cognitive and personality differences, a 50/50 gender balance in the tech sector may be unrealistic.
The memo also argues that expanding diversity is good but Google is going about it all wrong — for instance, by offering gender- and race-exclusionary support programs, favoring “diversity” hires, and promoting hypersensitivity to “unconscious bias” and unintentional offenses. And it suggests alternative strategies, such as drawing more women to software engineering by making some of those jobs more people-oriented, more collaborative and less stressful (though Damore notes there are limits to such change)."
http://www.dailywire.com/news/19474/breaking-fired-google-employee-says-hell-likely-hank-berrien
"FIRED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE SAYS HE'LL LIKELY SUE
James Damore, the software engineer who wrote an internal memo that questioned Google’s diversity efforts and was fired as a result, will likely sue the company, according to The New York Times.
Damore told the Times he would “likely be pursuing legal action. I have a legal right to express my concerns about the terms and conditions of my working environment and to bring up potentially illegal behavior, which is what my document does.”
Damore revealed he had submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board before he was fired claiming that Google’s upper management was “misrepresenting and shaming me in order to silence my complaints,” adding it was “illegal to retaliate” against an N.L.R.B. charge."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/07/542020041/google-grapples-with-fallout-after-employee-slams-diversity-efforts
"ANOTHER SOFTWARE ENGINEER WHO USED TO WORK FOR GOOGLE, KELLY ELLIS, SAYS SOME WOMEN WHO STILL WORK AT THE COMPANY STAYED HOME MONDAY BECAUSE THE MEMO MADE THEM "UNCOMFORTABLE GOING BACK TO WORK."
Google CEO Cuts Vacation Short To Deal With Crisis Over Diversity Memo
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Google CEO Cuts Vacation Short To Deal With Crisis Over Diversity Memo
TECHNOLOGY
Google Engineer's Criticism Of Diversity Programs Sparks Controversy
Now, Bloomberg and Reuters report the memo was written by James Damore and Google has fired him for "perpetuating gender stereotypes." The news services say Damore confirmed the dismissal by email.
The memo that some have jokingly called a "manifesto" has been shared across Google's internal networks and says "biological causes" are part of the reason women aren't represented equally in its tech departments and leadership. The senior engineer also criticized Google for being an "ideological echo chamber" that made it hard to dissent from "Google's left bias" and "politically correct monoculture."
http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/08/google-fires-engineer-noticing-men-women-different/
"GOOGLE’S REACTION, FIRST CONDEMNING THE MEMO AND THEN FIRING ITS AUTHOR, CONFIRMS IN THE MOST UNFORTUNATE TERMS FEARS ABOUT THE COMPANY’S IDEOLOGICAL ‘ECHO CHAMBER.’
Damore went out of his way to emphasize that while men and women differ substantially across population averages, those averages do not, and should not apply to how any individual woman or man is treated, as seen in the graph below. Rather, he delicately suggests that Google rethink some of its assumptions about why there might continue to be gaps between the numbers of women and men interested and qualified for tech jobs at the company."
http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-respond/
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/08/why_did_a_google_engineer_feel_empowered_to_share_his_sexist_memo.html
"GOOGLE WAS RIGHT TO FIRE THE MEMO WRITER
That his sexist manifesto even gained traction at the company suggests its workplace culture has a long way to go.
Firing an employee who made it clear he felt many of his co-workers were inferior was the right move, and it says something about what Google wants to be as a company. That someone felt comfortable disseminating the document in the first place, however, says even more about the company Google currently is. And the entire episode crystalizes the reckoning Silicon Valley is currently enduring, over why so many of the most forward-thinking companies in the world simply can’t seem to treat all of their employees equally and decently."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450240/lena-dunham-google-demonstrate-eroding-free-speech-culture
"LENA DUNHAM AND GOOGLE DEMONSTRATE WHY OUR FREE SPEECH CULTURE IS SLIPPING AWAY
Progressive corporations enforce an ideological monoculture. Dissent and get fired. When I talk about free speech, I often ask the audience two questions. First, did you know that the Supreme Court has been steadily expanding free-speech rights? Second, do you feel freer to speak now than you did five years ago? The answers are always the same — some variation of “no” and “heck, no.” The first assertion is undoubtedly true. Federal courts have consistently protected free speech from government interference and have been relentless in shutting down viewpoint discrimination. When government officials target speech because of a speaker’s views, they lose time and again."
http://freebeacon.com/culture/cnn-misrepresents-arguments-fired-author-google-memo/
"CNN BADLY MISREPRESENTS ARGUMENTS MADE BY FIRED AUTHOR OF GOOGLE MEMO
Both online and on air, CNN misrepresented the content of a widely shared internal memo that led Google to fire one of its software engineers.
In a tweet, CNN claimed the author of the Google memo wrote that women "aren't suited for tech jobs."
"CNN.com's write-up likewise claimed that the author of the "anti-diversity manifesto" argued "women aren't suited for tech jobs for ‘biological' reasons."
The same narrative emerged in CNN's on-air reporting. Host Poppy Harlow complained that the "anti-diversity" memo said "women are less suited for tech jobs than men. Why? Because they're women! Biologically, they can't do it."
But the actual memo simply does not say what CNN claims it does. To begin with, the author of the Google memo is not opposed to "diversity" in the abstract, but is opposed to Google's methods for advancing it.
"I hope it's clear that I'm not saying that diversity is bad," the author says at one point. Elsewhere he notes, "I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/7/16105838/google-manifesto-support-for-anti-diversity-internal
"More people have been agreeing with it than I would like"
http://www.dailywire.com/news/19464/fake-news-4-things-google-manifesto-doesnt-say-ben-shapiro
"4 THINGS THE GOOGLE MANIFESTO DOESN’T SAY THAT THE MEDIA CLAIM IT SAYS
On Monday evening, news broke of a memo regarding Google’s Leftist bias and their perverse attempts to impose diversity quotas at the company. The memo, by an unnamed employee, drew quick fire from the management structure; on Tuesday evening, the employee, unmasked as James Damore, was fired.
There was just one problem: there was nothing wrong with the memo."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450272/neutral-position-google-story-isnt-neutral-all
THE NEUTRAL POSITION ON THE GOOGLE STORY ISN’T NEUTRAL AT ALL
"By far and away the strongest argument in favor of Google’s firing the employee who wrote the now infamous memo is a neutral one: That, irrespective of its contents, the memo itself was a suicide note. Those advancing this case are effectively taking no stance on the questions that have yielded all the outrage, preferring instead to forward the separate case that it is invariably unwise for any employee of any company to criticize his employer in public. “If you wrote this memo,” they ask the critics, “wouldn’t you expect to be fired?”
https://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/894953916235792384
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/07/542020041/google-grapples-with-fallout-after-employee-slams-diversity-efforts
Google Reportedly Fires Employee Who Slammed Diversity Efforts
Ellis said she left Google in 2014 after she was sexually harassed. When she read the leaked document, it didn't surprise her "because I saw similar language when I was at Google being shared on internal message boards and other different internal forums."
Ellis said although he isn't a manager, the "manifesto" author's opinions directly impact his female peers. "The main input to Google's performance review process, which is how they slot engineers, which determines pay — the main input to that is peer review," says Ellis. "It's your peers writing feedback on your work."
Danielle Brown, Google's vice president of diversity, sent out a companywide memo in response to the document. She stated, "Diversity and inclusion are a fundamental part of our values and the culture we continue to cultivate. We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company."
According to Brown, Ari Balogh, a vice president in engineering who heads the department in which the employee worked, wrote a note in response to the "manifesto" in which Balogh stressed the importance of Google being open and inclusive. He wrote, "We cannot allow stereotyping and harmful assumptions to play any part."
https://www.blog.google/topics/diversity/note-employees-ceo-sundar-pichai/
NOTE TO EMPLOYEES FROM CEO SUNDAR PICHAI
This has been a very difficult time. I wanted to provide an update on the memo that was circulated over this past week.
http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/08/942336-company-knows-everything-now-punishing-thoughtcrimes/
THE COMPANY THAT KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU IS NOW PUNISHING THOUGHTCRIMES
Google cut itself on its own sharp sword of woke-ness Tuesday morning.
The company that controls an enormous portion of the internet's data and search, and that prides itself on being a tolerance beacon, fired one of its more diverse employees for expressing his opinion among his coworkers.
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2580282?hl=en
Not to be confused with Google Link Diversity
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UPDATED:
Anon source w/in Google shared more info about the context of James Damore's #GoogleManifesto (remember, all sources have their own agendas)
https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann/status/895006651526160384
Anita Hill: Class Actions Could Fight Discrimination in Tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/opinion/anita-hill-women-in-tech-should-take-sexism-to-court.html