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Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com)
NBC News originally reported: Google employees will gather for a town hall meeting Thursday afternoon to discuss the tensions ignited by a memo circulated inside the company that claimed to explain why more women are not engineers. Town hall meetings are nothing new at Google, but this one will likely be different after the so-called "Google Manifesto" went viral over the weekend, adding fresh fuel to the debate around gender bias in Silicon Valley. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an email earlier this week that he would cut his family vacation short in order to facilitate the forum. "The past few days have been very difficult for many at the company, and we need to find a way to debate issues on which we might disagree -- while doing so in line with our Code of Conduct," he wrote. "I'd encourage each of you to make an effort over the coming days to reach out to those who might have different perspectives from your own. I will be doing the same." The town hall comes amid a report from The Guardian that as many as 60 women are considering filing a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging sexism and wage disparity.
UPDATE: NBC News now reports the event has been cancelled, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai saying "Googlers are writing in, concerned about their safety and worried they may be 'outed' publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall... we need to step back and create a better set of conditions for us to have the discussion." Instead of the company-wide format, Google will now hold several smaller forums "to gather and engage with Googlers, where people can feel comfortable to speak freely," Pichai wrote.
UPDATE: NBC News now reports the event has been cancelled, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai saying "Googlers are writing in, concerned about their safety and worried they may be 'outed' publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall... we need to step back and create a better set of conditions for us to have the discussion." Instead of the company-wide format, Google will now hold several smaller forums "to gather and engage with Googlers, where people can feel comfortable to speak freely," Pichai wrote.
You want to measure diversity at google? Count the political bumper stickers on the cars that park there. You'll have no problem finding Hillary and Sanders stickers, but Trump stickers are rarer than hen's teeth.
They built this absolutely toxic environment for conservatives under the cover of "diversity". Why should anyone believe they are going to do anything except continue to make conservatives feel like pariahs?
It turns out that intellect is correlated with voting for someone other than Trump and also with working at Google. That doesn't mean they're rejecting Trump voters because of their political choices.
Conservatives love playing the victim card as often as possible. It's why so many evangelical (non)christians in the US are conservatives, they think they're being oppressed every time they can't treat other people like shit and get away with it.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
The headline in the first link changed to:
...Cancels Diversity Town Hall Over Concerns for Employee Safety
It is painfully clear these people have no concept of just how much hate they have been indulging. They've basically built a company populated with rabid malcontents that are prepared to harm or kill their cow-orkers.
Rather, the alt-right has taken hold of the issue and has a well established pattern of harassing and threatening people who speak up, particularly women.
Sure it goes both ways and harassing of conservatives is quite common to. Either way, but employee who speaks up and gets publicly identified in the Town Hall is going to get seriously harassed. Cancelling the event is a no-brainer.
I stole this Sig
The original memo written by James Damore cites Wikipedia articles as sources, many of which have been flagged for problematic and incorrect sources. This is a serious problem with the point of view that James Damore has. This has been a serious problem in every discussion about the issue. You cannot make a claim, cite an unreliable source, then be surprised when others don't agree and there is a resonant backlash. This a problem among scores of articles referencing the kind of differences that the memo speaks about. They say it's backed by science but they don't cite the science that backs it, they cite more people making the same opaque claims.
There's your fake news in a nutshell. If you don't vet your sources you have no idea whether they're accurate. Taking the stance that agrees with you despite the apparently invalidity of the sources is bad science.
No, you're perfectly safe to speak out--as long as it's in agreement.
No, you are allowed to disagree as long as you follow the Code of Conduct. That is, you disagreement may not be discordant with the general consensus or groupthink. So you may disagree as long as your disagreement is in agreement with everyone else.
you are nothing more than a brainwashed idiot who's incapable of thought.
Says the guy who only posted links to pro-liberal websites, some of which have been shown thanks to the leaked emails that they were ready to do anything to get Clinton elected.
lucm, indeed.