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Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com)
Last week a controversial internal memo written by a concerned Google employee was going viral within the company. The memo, titled "PC Considered Harmful" and since dubbed "the Google manifesto" on social media, argued two points: First, that Google has become an ideological echo chamber where anyone with centrist or right-of-center views fears to speak their mind. Second, that part of the tech industry's gender gap can be attributed to biological differences between men and women. The person who wrote the memo has since been fired, but the internal tussle has revealed one more thing. The Inc reports: The contentious internal discussion revived a concern dating back to 2015: An unknown number of Google managers maintain blacklists of fellow employees, evidently refusing to work with those people. The blacklists are based on personal experiences of others' behavior, including views expressed on politics, social justice issues, and Google's diversity efforts. Inc. reviewed screenshots documenting several managers attesting to this practice, both in the past and currently, explicitly using the term "blacklist." The screenshots were shared by a Google employee who requested anonymity due to having signed an NDA. In additional screenshots, one Google employee declared his intent to quit if Damore were not fired, and another said that he would refuse to work with Damore in any capacity. A Google spokesperson told Inc. that the practice of keeping blacklists is not condoned by upper management, and that Google employees who discriminate against members of protected classes will be terminated. It's not clear whether that principle applies in Damore's case. Although political affiliation is a protected class according to California labor law, the views expressed in the manifesto and echoed by others who oppose political correctness do not seem to merit legal protection.
using dubious claims.
women are not biologically fit to be engineers then covers his ass with "oh but some overlap". Give me a break.
Women and men are culturally different, but that's culture, not genetics. There are plenty of professions where there is a clear gender bias in favor of men or women (eg nurses) but there is no reason other than silly cultural standards for those biases existing in the first place.
Now I'm not about to go full blown alt-left here, and I'm not exactly pro-affirmative action, but there is something to be said about the cultural influences on men and women and the career paths they end up going down. If it's biological, then in the past what, 40 years or so, there was a sudden genetic mutation that spread throughout America that made women disinterested in engineering? Unlikely...
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
If there was someone in a management role at a public benefit non-profit who had made it publicly clear that he didn't like Semites (I'm one) or Secular Humanists (that too), I would feel uncomfortable about having him in that role and I would probably not donate to, or work with, the organization.
In general, I recommend that visible top organizational managers don't distract from the organization's message, and that the organization itself must stay on-message. When the message is against a class of human beings, it's really difficult for any well-run organization to tolerate.
Bruce Perens.
Interesting trick, using archive.org to hide the domain name of quillette.com, a site dedicated to giving fake legitimacy to alt-right views and news.
You portray it as "some actual experts", but let's look at who they actually are. The first is Lee Jussim, who is a professor in this field, but is well known for going against the prevailing views in academia. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it rather undermines the narrative that "some experts agree with this guy" because it's more like "some fringe experts who reject the mainstream, most widely accepted view agree with this guy".
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
That's fair. It was up when I checked it, but it's down now and I'll take your word for it that it was down earlier. Withdrawn.
What I'm saying about the experts they selected is that they don't represent the mainstream view, and it's misleading to omit that information.
Imagine a headline reading "experts agree climate change is not happening". That is technically true, you can certainly find some experts who will say that, but it's hardly convincing when compared to the number who disagree.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC