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It should be, but since we no longer have freedom of association, the workplace anti-discrimination laws need to be enforced to protect men as well as women. This firing constitutes illegal sex discrimination.
How so?
For contributing to a hostile work environment?
Protecting his right to make others uncomfortable?
I disagreed you calling his memo "inappropriate" without any supporting argument.
He took women and ascribed characteristics to all of them like they're a homogeneous group.
Some of these characteristics were unflattering and insulting. Nobody wants to work with someone who'd think stuff like that, much less put it in a memo.
I'm surprised you cannot see how wrong that was to do.
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He took women and ascribed characteristics to all of them like they're a homogeneous group.
Some of these characteristics were unflattering and insulting. Nobody wants to work with someone who'd think stuff like that, much less put it in a memo.
I'm surprised you cannot see how wrong that was to do.
No. He used "average". Average, a mathematical and scientific term with a definite meaning, does not apply to all individuals within a group.
Did you guys read the memo? Duh he was fired and duh no other company wants to touch this guy. What a moron. Any company anywhere would have fired this guy and justifiable so. Koch Industries would have done the exact same thing.
Am I wrong about what the topic of this thread is? The article linked in the OP gave mention of this memo but I thought it was more about the ideological blacklisting some google managers were boasting about on internal company bulletin boards.
I am so glad that some people actually stand up and speak the truth.
If you read that thing, he starts off sounding somewhat reasonable, but by the end his RWNJ whackiness is showing. Don't blame Google for deleting him, this is really disruptive.
Exactly. While I agree Google had a legal right to fire him, I would suggest that people read the actual document (or at least what is available, I've yet to find the whole thing) before making a judgement on whether this is hate speech.
LOL. Hate speech? Where did that come from?
The essay is a pathetically timid disagreement with certain flagrantly illegal company policies. It could not be any further from "hate speech".
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