By now you’ve heard about the memo that circulated at Google excoriating criticizing the company for its politically correct corporate culture, mindless ‘Diversity uber alles’ policies, and intolerance for people with different opinions. To demonstrate their commitment to diversity, Google hunted down and fired him. But the shockwaves are still being felt because opinions critical of political correctness and diversity are ‘violence’ because ‘ they make people feel afraid.
How glad I am not to be a mewling snowflake. But if one of the points alleged by the memo is that some women (and weak, effeminate millennial beta males) are so emotionally fragile that they are a detriment to the workplace, doesn’t skipping work because a memo hurt their feelings kind of prove the point?
Update:
What could go wrong with the largest information database in the world penalizing people for the wrong thoughts
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) August 8, 2017
Progressives are stuck in middle school.
When these people finally come to the realization that the Democrats aren’t in control anymore & they don’t have to kowtow to Political Correctness, they’ll finally begin to push back against the self-imposed liability of snowflake culture. When that witch starts screeching, I’m melting, I’m melting – one doesn’t have to do anything but watch & sneer.
I do hope my referencing doesn’t reveal my age. Good times.
I might add, it’s been a dream & an agenda of the Left for decades to equate verbal disagreement with physical violence. Since they can’t quite codify that into national law & can barely institute it as municipal law except in the most hey you guys regions on the Left Cost – they’re naturally going to (at least) go with implement their stupidities in the Liberal marketplace.
Any rational employer would have fired the “offended” snowflakes on-the-spot, …and promoted him. This makes me questions my fondness for Alphabet, Inc. products and services, but all the tech companies are like this today.
Google/Alphabet may have ruined his career as an engineer, although it could easily be argued he did it to himself, but they gave him a few years at least of being a guest on the talk show circuit.
I predict the same sort-of boycott that Mozilla received when they ousted their co-founder for a small contribution in the non-PC direction. That is, sound and fury and not much real effect because the products (especially with Google) are better than their company.
Bloomberg reports the Google author James Damore has been summarily-fired.
Irony: Being constantly accused of “thisphobia” and “thatphobia” by people who are terrified by WORDS on a SCREEN.
it seems the people that run these tech companies are the most intolerant business people in the country. no disagreement with the political agenda will be allowed.
If you read the doc, it’s very mild, with plenty of pc kowtowing built in. That makes firing the guy all the more absurd. I hope he sues the crap out of Alphabet, on 1st amendment grounds.
I don’t think that the first amendment applies since Google is a private company. But since the company claims to encourage diversity of opinion in its workplace, he may have grounds under breach of contract if he was fired for his point of view, which seems obvious.
Also, I’m not sure if California has laws against firing people for viewpoint discrimination, but that could also be grounds for a lawsuit.
@7
Boom.
Bing.
Q.E.D.
Oh the irony, indeed.
*Bingo.
Ergo: Political correctness and diversity are incompatible.
Political correctness censors all diversity that does not fit within the zealotry of the bigoted ambition of the power wielders controlling the narrative of correctness. They are moral and ethical midgets who have no humor for dissent.
Lena Dunham claims to have overheard two flight attendants talking anti-transgender talk. She says they were in uniform and walking near her in a terminal. Her message was that so long as they represented an airline, or UPS or ComCast or the Navy or KrispyKreme or any other uniformed corporate or state entity their speech is corporate or publicly owned and operated and must be sanitized.
Political correctness Puritans are zealous hawks when a “violator” of the religion tries to utter a different, (dare I say ?) diverse point of view. Holding a politically incorrect opinion is not diversity, it is an imminent threat to the existing order of political correctness and must be stamped out with hobnailed boots.
So, Google found the free thinker and decapitated him.
I used to ask my little children: will you be drinking half a glass of milk or a whole glass of milk? I chose the glass according to the answer. But they drank their milk. That is how political correctness works. Will you agree with me or do you wish to leave now? Your choice. Fascism. It is ever thus.
Maxine Waters says she might start an all black party. What will the blacks who don’t join her party be? Synthetic blacks? Inorganic blacks? Oreo blacks?
The DemonizingRats are beginning the junk yard dog fighting over whether the party can support a pro-life candidate. These fascists look like the Roman Senate gearing up at the Ides of March.
The memo called for “open and honest” discussion of the relevant issues, and noted that certain topics are off-limits, because political correctness does not allow the expression of views that deviate from the party line. By firing the employee, Google proved his point.
And the millenial snowflakes who took time off because they felt threatened are inadequate personalities who cannot cope with ordinary demands of evefyday life. They are a liability in the workplace.
There is a hint of Mao Tse-Dung’s “Let 1000 Bloom” in this. The regime encouraged criticism of the regime but only to identify those who had criticisms of the regime. Then, the regime murdered them.
Another grounds for a lawsuit may lie in how Google is misrepresenting the contents of the memo. It does not, as Google claims, disparage women as unsuitable for tech jobs, but, in fact, criticizes Google for not making good on its pledge to recruit more women.
It’s pro-diversity memo. OK, so maybe defamation is the angle. Whatevs. A good employment lawyer will figure this out.
He was fired for practicing intellectual diversity, in a pro-diversity way, related directly to his being a good pro-diversity drone of Alphabet. Certainly, conservatives can’t work (or “be safe”) at Google.
The Left is pathetic: they can’t help but over-reach, reminding everyone all the time of why the Left sucks and deserves hatred and contempt.
Got this off Jack Posobiec – A Google manager, Collin Winter, brags about his blacklisting of Google employees:
From Bloomberg:
There it is. He was a whistleblower raising concerns about working conditions at Google, and Google did a retaliatory firing. That’s illegal.
I hope he gets a large damage award, so that the special snowflakes will have to go to work in the morning knowing that their efforts and hours have served…him.
@ 3, “it’s been a dream & an agenda of the Left for decades to equate verbal disagreement with physical violence.”
Yes. That way, if you are wearing a MAGA cap, or if you are wearing a “Support Our Troops” or “I Support the Police” t-shirt, the antifa goons can be justified in spraying you with pepper spray, or hitting you on the head with a bicycle lock. It would be self-defense, just as a cop would be justified in shooting a bank robber who pointed a gun at him. Or, as you would be justified in shooting an intruder who broke into your house and came at you with an ax.
Except, if you shoot a violent criminal in self-defense, the Left will claim that it was NOT justified, and they will want to railroad you to Leavenworth for violating the poor criminal’s civil rights.
I suggest some renaming.
From Google, Inc.
To Gloomy, Inc.
From Alphabet, Inc.
To Autodafé, Inc.