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> Meanwhile, inside Google, the diversity advocates say some employees have “weaponized human resources” by goading them into inflammatory statements, which are

> Meanwhile, inside Google, the diversity advocates say some employees have “weaponized human resources” by goading them into inflammatory statements, which are then captured and reported to HR for violating Google’s mores around civility or for offending white men. > Engineer Colin McMillen says the tactics have unnerved diversity advocates and chilled internal discussion. “Now it’s like basically anything you say about yourself may end up getting leaked to score political points in a lawsuit,” he says. “I have to be very careful about choosing my words because of the low-grade threat of doxing. But let’s face it, I’m not visibly queer or trans or non-white and a lot of these people are keying off their own white supremacy.” I don't understand this mentality at all. Rules requiring civility don't only apply towards white men, and I have never heard of anyone within Google being a white supremacist. Do many of these people think that anyone not pro-affirmative action is a sign of their white supremacist thoughts or something?

DashRattlesnake 9y ago
>> which are then captured and reported to HR for violating Google’s mores around civility or for offending white men. > Rules requiring civility don't only apply towards white men Welcome to the cutting edge of contemporary social justice culture, significant portions of which seem to want to invert and reorganize racial/gender power structures to put themselves at the top, rather than working to actually wash them away.
rovek 9y ago
My gut told me this would be downvoted the moment I saw the section you quoted. Engineer Colin McMillen seems to be surprised that rules apply to him.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
  To be fair, I really didn't add much to the conversation, just expressed puzzlement towards a mentality that I don't understand. It also drew forth a comment that _should_ have been downvoted. I was actually preparing to delete it myself when it was commented on.
  - Chris2048 9y ago
    > It also drew forth a comment that _should_ have been downvoted If this is your opinion, just downvote it - don't comment about it.
    - TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
      I said it as justification for the downvoting of my post. There are speech patterns that tend to draw toxic comments and reactions, and the existence of such reactions to my post indicate that I probably used such unproductive speech patterns. Those posts should not flourish here.
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DashRattlesnake 9y ago

>> which are then captured and reported to HR for violating Google’s mores around civility or for offending white men. > Rules requiring civility don't only apply towards white men Welcome to the cutting edge of contemporary social justice culture, significant portions of which seem to want to invert and reorganize racial/gender power structures to put themselves at the top, rather than working to actually wash them away.

rovek 9y ago

My gut told me this would be downvoted the moment I saw the section you quoted. Engineer Colin McMillen seems to be surprised that rules apply to him.

TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
To be fair, I really didn't add much to the conversation, just expressed puzzlement towards a mentality that I don't understand. It also drew forth a comment that _should_ have been downvoted. I was actually preparing to delete it myself when it was commented on.
- Chris2048 9y ago
  > It also drew forth a comment that _should_ have been downvoted If this is your opinion, just downvote it - don't comment about it.
  - TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
    I said it as justification for the downvoting of my post. There are speech patterns that tend to draw toxic comments and reactions, and the existence of such reactions to my post indicate that I probably used such unproductive speech patterns. Those posts should not flourish here.

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