Google employee now free to work for Cleveland Plain-Dealer

This has caused quite the kerfuffle online:

Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech

Short version: Man posts 10-page paper discussing diversity in tech on Google's internal networks. Depending on who you ask, he may have been valiantly defending the science of biological differences between sexes to try to show better ways Google could implement diversity. Or he might have been championing outdated phrenology-level evo-psych as a thin fig leaf for his "women aren't as good at this stuff and shouldn't be here" mythology.

Either way, he gone.

 

Long version: Google Manifesto

 

Give the actual document a read and tell me what you think.

 

Meaning is contextual

 

I think he was arguing that robots are bad and a threat to our future prosperity. I could be wrong, but how would anyone know?

 

You have to find your own truth.

 

The headline ... "Blah Blah Blah Questioning Women in Tech" ... is just too perfect. Really, all we need is a Lena Dunham tweet for the po-mo types to go all-in.

 

I'm not sure he's good enough for the Plain Dealer.

 

Regardless of the moral implications, his science is bad.

 

Would pay all the moneys for a robot president right about now.

 

I've still never in my life seen anyone but conservative men reference Lena Dunham

 

What science?