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> They too feel under threat, and that is also not OK. People must feel free to express dissent Yet he fired the guy. Ultimately he had to pick a side: freedo
by peoplewindow 9y ago
> They too feel under threat, and that is also not OK. People must feel free to express dissent
Yet he fired the guy.
Ultimately he had to pick a side: freedom of speech or women who got upset by a bunch of links to scientific studies with a pile of social and cultural commentary on top. He picked the latter.
- pgsandstrom 9y agoFreedom of speech has nothing to do with keeping your employment when you start infected political discourse at your work.
- peoplewindow 9y ago"Infected" discourse, how sad. As if mainstream ideas you don't like are a disease that needs to be wiped out.
- nyxtom 9y agoIt isn't 100% fair, but the guy also stated that a systemic bias will likely create a negative (and one can conclude hostile) reaction rather than constructive discourse. It is safe to assume that if you can predict that there is likely to be a hostile reaction to your opinions due to context and systemic bias, there are other ways in which you might want to promote your ideas. Advancing stereotypes aside, given that he knew that this was the case, he went ahead and published the article anyway rather than conduct private conversations on the topic or explore the discussion in other constructive ways. Interestingly, he may have gotten a lot further in advancing constructive discourse by leaving it an open survey and reporting his findings on systemic bias. Rather than base his conclusions on his own naive assumptions, he could have conducted research and collect data from the internal Google employees and then reported his findings as objectively as possible.