To me, this is a symptom of Google transforming into just another BigCo riding its own coattails, with just an ideology of its own greatness. The ability to rem

To me, this is a symptom of Google transforming into just another BigCo riding its own coattails, with just an ideology of its own greatness. The ability to remove people through accusations outside of a rigorous and impartial process is simply too great a power not to go abused. All the more the shame that there's a certain degree of real need and idealism behind the justification. I'm talking about both accusations of interpersonal impropriety and accusations of attitudes of social injustice. Peter Boghossian and others have discussed the idea that Intersectionality has become like a religion. The way that people use accusations in that belief system are eerily similar to the way religious people used to make accusations of immorality in the past. (Often for power and material gain.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bQTxNT-K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bQTxNT-K8 Perhaps they have accurately assessed that Google has such a glass jaw in terms of its perceived need for top “talent” that it is hyper sensitive to any PR that might lead prospective employees not to consider them. Google could easily replace its own numbers 4X over and wind up with pretty much the same level of talent. The problem isn't the talent. It's the operational knowledge embodied in its workforce. If I were Google's management, I'd be thinking of some sort of way to wrest back that source of worker power. Unfortunately, I think the upper management of Google are themselves true believers, and to stay in power, they'll have to maintain a faction inside Google loyal to them personally. Under the surface, the inner political life of Google may be getting uglier. EDIT: The way to wrest back power from the worker pool, would be to distribute it in small enough pieces, such that any one group is replaceable. Then set all of the groups against each other. Maybe the atmosphere of inter-group accusation brought about by Intersectionality is actually desired by upper management at Google?