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Silicon Valley Snowflakes
By now you’ve heard about the memo that circulated at Google excoriating criticizing the company for its politically correct corporate culture, mindless “Diversity uber alles” policies, and intolerance for people with different opinions. To demonstrate their commitment to diversity, Google hunted down and fired him. In Silicon Valley, it would seem opinions critical of political correctness and diversity are ‘violence’ because ‘ they make people feel afraid.
How glad I am not to be a mewling snowflake. But if one of the points alleged by the memo is that some women (and weak, effeminate millennial beta males) are so emotionally fragile that they are a detriment to the workplace, doesn’t skipping work because a memo hurt their feelings kind of prove the point?
Published in Science & Technology
Note that he didn’t assert that he could prove that Gulag was illegally discriminating; he just stated that it was happening.
The word I was focused on was illegally. I’m not sure the nature of their discrimination violates any laws.
Clearly the only thing to do is regulate all the search engines with net neutrality rules.
If he’s correct, Gulag was acting in an uncharacteristic way when they introduced the subject (not their customary openness). The next few months could be interesting.