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Great Metal Jesus
Jun 11, 2007

Got no use for psychiatry
I can talk to the voices
in my head for free
Mood swings like an axe
Into those around me
My tongue is a double agent

divabot posted:

I was quite pleased to see Yonatan Zunger (who is generally a pretty good guy), whose job it used to be to deal with this sort of fuckwittery, outlining just how this sort of thing actually goes in practice at Google (which Zunger can say now, 'cos he's recently left Google). And why dude just proved himself a failed bozo at engineering.

Thanks for posting that! I saw the original manifesto and was hoping to see a rebuttal from inside Google. That was better than I could have hoped for.

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Great Metal Jesus
Jun 11, 2007

Got no use for psychiatry
I can talk to the voices
in my head for free
Mood swings like an axe
Into those around me
My tongue is a double agent
lmao, the dweeb fired for distributing the manifesto at Google has been offered a job by Julian Assange.

The article posted:

On Tuesday Damore revealed he had been dismissed by Google for “perpetuating gender stereotypes” and said he was considering legal action against the company. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, offered him a job and accused Google of censorship.
...
Assange, who has repeatedly attacked Google over privacy issues, tweeted: “Women and men deserve respect. That includes not firing them for politely expressing ideas but rather arguing back.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/08/google-fires-employee-behind-anti-diversity-memo-perpetuating/

It has me wondering just how offensive can your ideas be and still be defensible in the eyes of some of these people as long as you don't start cursing and spitting slurs? I mean on one hand I know we're in part talking about out and out nazis here. But is there actually a line?

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