{"id":1913,"date":"2017-08-09T02:03:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2017-08-09T02:03:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:03:40","slug":"google-claims-anothwer-politically-incorrect-dissident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Google Claims Anothwer Politically Incorrect Dissident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Non-PC World -Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo for ‘perpetuating gender stereotypes’<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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\nNote: \u00a0On the face of it, it \u00a0is remarkable that so many people, often in middle class jobs, are still willing to behave in politically incorrect ways when they almost constantly have before them examples \u00a0peopel accused of pc “crimes” which result in their loss of their job at best and criminal charges at worst. \u00a0But it is not so surprising when one thinks about. People have a natural resistance to being told they cannot express their honest views and feelings and the very act of making such thing effective illegal \u00a0increases the \u00a0desire to say them. In addition, the fact that political correctness \u00a0runs against human nature means that Nature will out sooner or later. Finally, some political correctness is \u00a0unintended because the parameters of political correctness are forever shifting \u00a0so that what may have been untouched by political correctness one day is politically incorrect the next. RH\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n
Telegraph\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n
Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo for ‘perpetuating gender stereotypes’
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<\/span>James Damore, the engineer who wrote the memo, said he was exploring all possible legal remedies<\/span>CREDIT:<\/span>\u00a0REUTERS<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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8 AUGUST 2017 \u2022\u00a06:16AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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I<\/span><\/span>nternet giant\u00a0Google\u00a0has fired the male engineer at the centre of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry.<\/span><\/div>\n
James Damore, the engineer who wrote the memo, confirmed his dismissal, saying in an email to Reuters\u00a0on Monday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes”.<\/span><\/div>\n
Mr Damore said he was exploring all possible legal remedies, and that before being fired, he had submitted a charge to the US\u00a0National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accusing\u00a0Google\u00a0upper management of trying to shame him into silence.<\/span><\/div>\n
“It’s illegal to retaliate against an NLRB charge,” he wrote in the email.<\/span><\/div>\n
Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc based in Mountain View, Calif., said it could not talk about individual employee cases.<\/span><\/div>\n
Google\u00a0Chief Executive Sundar Pichai told employees in a note\u00a0on Monday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0that portions of the anti-diversity memo “violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace,” according to a copy of the note seen by Reuters.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I<\/span>t was not \u00a0clear what legal authority Damore could try to invoke. Non-union or “at will” employees, such as most tech workers, can be fired in the United States for a wide array of reasons that have nothing to do with performance.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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T<\/span>he US\u00a0National Labour Relations Act guarantees workers, whether they are in a union or not, the right to engage in “concerted activities” for their “mutual aid or protection”.<\/span><\/div>\n
Damore, though, would likely face an uphill fight to seek that protection based on his memo, said Alison Morantz, a Stanford University law professor with expertise in labour law.<\/span><\/div>\n
“It’s going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,” Ms Morantz said.<\/span><\/div>\n
Debate over the treatment of women in the male-dominated tech industry has raged for months. Claims of persistent sexual harassment in the ranks of Uber Technologies Inc and of several venture capital firms led to management shakeups.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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M<\/span>anagement at the largest tech firms, including\u00a0Google, have publicly committed to diversifying their workforces, although the percentage of women in engineering and management roles remains low at many companies.<\/span><\/div>\n
Damore’s memo attacked the idea that gender diversity should be a goal.<\/span><\/div>\n
“The distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and … these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership,” Damore wrote in the internal company memo last week.<\/span><\/div>\n
G<\/span>oogle’s vice president of diversity, Danielle Brown, sent a memo in response to the furore over the weekend, saying the engineer’s essay “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender”.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Google employee’s theory that women are unsuited to tech jobs provokes immediate backlash<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>Google employee’s manifesto has sparked outrage<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A<\/span>Google\u00a0<\/a>employee\u2019s manifesto arguing that programmes increasing race and gender diversity be replaced with a commitment to \u201cideological diversity\u201d has spread rapidly across social media sparking a furious backlash.<\/div>\n
The 10-page document, apparently drafted by a senior male software engineer, was initially posted on the company\u2019s internal forum.<\/div>\n
Critics reacted angrily to its argument that the lack of women in tech companies was down to genetic factors, saying it was\u00a0evidence of Silicon Valley\u2019s hostility to women and minorities.<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don\u2019t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership,\u201d the author writes, according to a version posted by\u00a0 Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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H<\/span>e goes on to argue that the company\u2019s diversity drives have created a \u201cpolitically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence\u201d.<\/div>\n
And the document also suggests that men have a greater drive for status, in contrast to women who may be less interested in coding and have a greater connection to \u201cpeople and aesthetics\u201d.<\/div>\n
The provocative essay, entitled \u201cGoogle\u2019s Ideological Echo Chamber\u201d, first began making waves\u00a0on Friday<\/span><\/span>. A string of Google employees expressed their anger as the document spread internally.B<\/span>efore long, details of the manifesto leaked out and the outrage snowballed.<\/div>\n
F<\/span>or many it was confirmation of biases common among the \u00a0white men who dominate Silicon Valley.<\/a>\u00a0G<\/span>oogle\u2019s new vice-president of diversity, integrity and governance, Danielle Brown, sent a memo to staff distancing the company from the views.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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S<\/span>he said it was not a viewpoint endorsed by Google.<\/div>\n
\u201cDiversity and inclusion are a fundamental part of our values and the culture we continue to cultivate,\u201d she wrote.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company, and we’ll continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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