TRUTH HURTS, DONT IT ! - Google Anti-Diversity Manifesto Sparks Response From Company's VP Of Diversity

Fionna Agomuoh
International Business TimesAugust 6, 2017

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The tech-sphere was abuzz Saturday with news of a manifesto written by a Google employed engineer, which first went viral internally at Google and is now making its rounds on the internet.

Motherboard first reported about a 10-page document being shared among Google employees, detailing one engineer's opinions on diversity at the company. Gizmodo later obtained and published the document in full.

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Among his opinions, the Google engineer claimed that the gender pay gap between men and women stems from biological differences between the sexes. He stated that “women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things” and that women are prone to “higher anxiety,” and “lower stress tolerance,” making them favor front end positions at Google rather than the back end.

TL:DR

Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.

This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed.

The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.

Extreme: all disparities in representation are due to oppression

Authoritarian: we should discriminate to correct for this oppression

Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

- Google Engineer, manifesto obtained by Gizmodo

He also criticized Google for propelling leftist ideologies in its efforts to build gender and racial diversity within the company, while silencing employees with more conservative points of view. https://www.yahoo.com/news/google-anti-diversity-manifesto-sparks-010128187.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/google-anti-diversity-manifesto-sparks-010128187.html