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Google Cancels Meeting on Diversity, Citing Safety Concerns for Employees
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 08/10/2017 5:28:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Google Cancels Meeting on Diversity, Citing Safety Concerns for Employees

CEO had scheduled meeting after the firing of a Google engineer, which had set off a nationwide debate

By Jack Nicas Updated Aug. 10, 2017 7:20 p.m. ET 122 COMMENTS

Google canceled a companywide meeting about diversity just before it was set to begin Thursday, saying right-wing websites published the names of employees who had proposed questions, raising security concerns.

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in an email to employees that the company decided to cancel the highly anticipated meeting after employees expressed concerns “about their safety and worried they may be ‘outed’ publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall.”

Mr. Pichai had scheduled the meeting in the wake of his firing this week of software engineer James Damore, who wrote and distributed a memo that argued biological differences between men and women explain the gender gap among tech workers. Mr. Pichai said the company would find other ways to gather and engage employees on the subject in the coming days.

Google’s firing of Mr. Damore has sparked a nationwide debate, and fueled discussion inside the company over its diversity program and its openness to conservative viewpoints.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: diversity; google
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Can't make it up............
1 posted on 08/10/2017 5:28:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

That’s so gay...


2 posted on 08/10/2017 5:29:31 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I'll tell you what you can't make up...the founders of Google picked the current CEO because he was the only candidate that went to Burning Man. And that was important to them. lol!
3 posted on 08/10/2017 5:31:40 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: Sub-Driver

No Diversity FOR YOU!


4 posted on 08/10/2017 5:31:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Sub-Driver

A fence is such a difficult thing to ride.


5 posted on 08/10/2017 5:32:18 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (I'm tired of the Cult of Clinton. Wish she would just pass out the Koolaide)
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To: Sub-Driver
So, Google has created an unsafe atmosphere for its employees by encouraging persecution of a political minority. Ironic, but not unexpected. Nothing like a leftist collective for persecution and violence toward ideological minorities.
6 posted on 08/10/2017 5:34:06 PM PDT by canalabamian
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To: Sub-Driver

Like the French and Russian revolutions, the American social justice warrior revolution is already eating itself. ‘J’accuse’ is the end, when reliable SJWs are destroyed. It’s fine with me. Devour yourselves.


7 posted on 08/10/2017 5:34:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

8 posted on 08/10/2017 5:34:39 PM PDT by Bobalu (Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning for free stuff)
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To: Sub-Driver
You mean like what former Google employee Yonatan Zunger wrote?

"I certainly couldn't assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face,"

By the way, has anyone made a Hitler-in-the-bunker YouTube about Google discovering Damore's manifesto yet?

9 posted on 08/10/2017 5:38:48 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The guy they fired joined Twitter a few hours ago. Cernovich directed people to him and he zoomed to 13,000 followers in that short amount of time.

https://twitter.com/fired4truth/status/895790315675582464


10 posted on 08/10/2017 5:44:03 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Sub-Driver

My diversity allows for these pussys to STFU about their triggers.


11 posted on 08/10/2017 5:45:13 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Sub-Driver

It's a hornets nest!

12 posted on 08/10/2017 5:46:04 PM PDT by upchuck (Holding on to anger is like grabbing a hot coal to throw at someone. You are the one burned ~Buddah)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bullcrap!

They cancelled the meeting because the cat is out of the bag, and their control of the message has been compromised.


13 posted on 08/10/2017 5:52:30 PM PDT by NOVACPA
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To: Sub-Driver

Die-ver-s(p)itty is nothing more than an aggravated form of affirmative actions.


14 posted on 08/10/2017 5:59:38 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Sub-Driver

My God....GOOGLE IS CLAIMING VICTIM STATUS!

“Victim status” is the modern day “last refuge of a scoundrel”.


15 posted on 08/10/2017 6:04:54 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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"they may be 'outed' publicly for asking a question"

LOL. What BS. Who would dare ask a question in such a forum knowing the last guy that spoke up got sh*tcanned.

16 posted on 08/10/2017 6:12:06 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Sub-Driver

Google taking the passive aggressive fetal position...


17 posted on 08/10/2017 6:14:13 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Sub-Driver
Eric S(c)h(m)i(d)t is in charge of this train wreck.


18 posted on 08/10/2017 6:16:25 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Sub-Driver

Scrooge can go to hell. I will do everything I can to avoid using their products.


19 posted on 08/10/2017 6:25:30 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Google is damned if they they do, and damned if they don’t.

They have 60 female employees mounting a lawsuit against Google for not paying women enough (for their tastes) on the one hand, and objective reality about merit and availability on the other hand.

The Democrats have David Brock’s front groups, among others, pressuring Google and other big Internet firms into becoming ever increasingly their PC censors and thought police, while it could be death to their brand if people start to see them as doing that.

Also, Google stays on top partly by owning the best brainpower money can buy, with each year’s graduating class. Those folks can find other jobs if they get turned off to Google.

Google’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil”, and they charged their employees with noble sounding missions to “Make information free.” Nowadays they are rolling over to censor results for the Chinese Communist Party, open ways for the Communist Secret Police to automate tracking individuals every utterance, and to increasingly skew and misrepresent public opinion in the rest of the world for (leftist) political purposes as well.


20 posted on 08/10/2017 6:37:44 PM PDT by BeauBo
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