Posted on 08/11/2017 1:35:17 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
James Damore, the Google engineer that was fired for writing a memo criticizing the companys diversity policies, said in a Thursday interview that Google employees publicly criticize people based on race and gender in meetings.
You can openly shame white people or all men [at Google], and we do this in our company-wide meetings, Damore said. Theres definitely a bias toward certain movements.
During the interview with the Daily Wires Ben Shapiro, Damore claimed that Google firing him for pushing harmful gender stereotypes only revealed the companys overblown emphasis on diversity, denying allegations that his memo had pushed harmful gender stereotypes.
Theyre putting their ideology before truth, Damore said. When one side is just trying to guilt you and call you names, and the other is actually using evidence and science, you know which one is actually seeking truth.
Damore also claimed diversity issues are often exaggerated at Google, citing an instance of a female employee who complained on message boards of not feeling included at the company. The woman had posted a question that had something to do with gender, Damore said. Her post received 300 votes, only 50 of which were down votes, but she nevertheless claimed that one in six people disagreeing with her was enough to make her not feel welcome.
Damore claimed Googles obsession with diversity is so pervasive that it may definitely be biasing who they do business with. He said he only used scientific research in his memo and never claimed that women were biologically worse than men at tech jobs.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained Damores firing in his own memo, claiming that Damore had pushed harmful gender stereotypes, but Damore claims the company is vilifying him. (RELATED: They Betrayed Me Google Engineer Who Wrote Diversity Memo Feels Punished) Despite the companys reaction, he said many of his former colleagues supported his memo.
Since Ive written it there have been many people that privately message me and say that yeah I support you and yeah this is a real problem, Damore said.
OK. We are on the same page. The idea of feminism that men and women are the same has taken hold even in conservative circles. I am all for merit-based competition, hiring or whatever. In some areas of life, women will do better and in other areas of life men will do better.
The time for praying without fighting has passed. Unless you can respond with historical facts rather than personal hope and faith - you can save your keystrokes I will not be interested.
Yes, this is FreeRepublic, where people discuss things rationally and sanely. I have no idea of what DU is. You said that the NYT story and the other one conflict with what is reported in WIRED.
When I was in the Navy, we had safety-stand-downs, sexual harassment training, drug avoidance training, etc. on top of the OJT/JQR (this is after 9 months of “A” and “C” school) I had to do as a CTT.
It’s a wonder I had time for PT!
The only true way to defeat the left is to violently wipe them out.
Think again. Christians with the Lord in their hearts was what prevailed at all. Even the messy case of Vladimir Putin and the USSR. Sloppy faith, a lot of errors, mixed with a lot of pride and other bad things. But it is yet the freest Russia there has been for ages.
I respond out of the bible, rather than putting it out of view. Now maybe such exhortations ARE wasted on you. But I speak to the larger audience viewing this thread and therefore it is not wasted on them.
Ah, to deliver yourself to the small-g god of violence is to have lost the war even before you “won” it.
The Bolsheviks knocked out the nominally believing Czar of Russia. They went for violence.
Should we become a second set of Bolsheviks? What will the victory look like? Will we be able to stop exalting the sword once its place has passed?
No. You miscast and misconstrue what you are calling the “facts of history.”
But at least you ventured to bring them up. That’s an improvement over just ass-u-me’ing you have to be right.
And to further elaborate, even if the women’s brains are there, the calls of the Lord on the other things that He earlier gave to them are there too.
Counterbalancing this, today we have a plethora of possibilities in the information technology world that didn’t exist back when it was hulking hardware that was accessed only in the same clean room where it was installed. The “virtuous woman” of Proverbs 31 can now telecommute. She considers a virtual field before buying it. Google, if it becomes wise, will be pushing this angle. “Women, you can work for Google with no family, with a traditional family, with a nontraditional family — we will be agnostic about that and will not push a worldview on you.” And they will watch their woman participation go up, up, up without any of this wild lefty madness. In fact, abandoning the wild lefty madness will make it more attractive from that angle.
“Don’t be evil” shouldn’t become “Be spectacularly wicked.”
Throughout history the only way to truly defeat various evil “isms” is through some form of warfare. I never stated the methods, so knock it off with the silly holier than thou reference to the Bolsheviks.
If true, why don’t people quit? I’d quit.
And yet sometimes it doesn’t even look like what we stereotype it to be.
The bible is holier than thou art. It is also holier than I am. That is the only way it can be any use to any of us.
Consider the Gideon victory. A little band conquered a lot, because of the psychological aspect of the battle.
And now we have the strange martyrdom victories of biblical Christianity (not modern lazy church churchianity). The conqueror dies; not the conquered. But God then claims the conquered.
Now THAT is history. God’s style, not your style.
So I press on you once more the question: will we be able to stop exalting the sword at the conclusion of the kind of victory you have in mind?
Or will it be some rough armed detente?
If the latter, then you have not subjected your mind to the Lord.
Good grief.
Agree but to openly in these brain washing sessions march out cross dressers and sit them down on white males in a group setting is going a bit too much for this Texan born Republic of Texas backing card carrying member could take.
That would be one.....
I think I am talking more about abusing white males to an extent to humiliate them in a group settings. Sort of like the ads or TV sitcoms on American television for the last 20 years have and are depicting the white male as a buffoon and looser in the family. No strong family leader or strong Citizen willing to stand up.
This kind of attack at the large Corporation for the betterment and silent attack by the Federally back queers. That is what I was talking about.
Concur. There are companies that implement "affirmative action" as an unpalatable necessity and try to do a fair job of it, and there are companies that do so with full and hearty enthusiasm who go wildly overboard. At least during the period when I was at Dow, what I saw put them in the first group.
Yeah I guess since we were a buyout and in the 21st century we were the guinea pig for the new diversity under the up and coming Sir Evil (CEO Liveris backwards).
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