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"Diversity of political thought" is not important to a technology company. I love how the right tries to paint themselves as victims using this statement.
by trianglem 7y ago
"Diversity of political thought" is not important to a technology company. I love how the right tries to paint themselves as victims using this statement.
- username90 7y agoThe main benefit of diversity is that it causes people to fight each other instead of fighting those in power. Upper management at Google has a real problem of the lowly workers organizing protests and pressuring management to change, forcing more diversity would fix this. Then they could finally become Microsoft where nobody raises an eyebrow when they help China spy on their citizens, take on military contracts or hire republican politicians. By the way, you might not have noticed but the measures described in this article are intended to achieve just that, as it mostly silences the loud left within Google when they try to push back.
- campfireveteran 7y agoRight/left is the best divide-and-conquer wedge issue found so far, exploited by media corporatists to atomize people further from each other in the name of money, while the real division is between the have-way-too-muches and the have-little-or-nones.
- goatinaboat 7y agoDiversity of political thought" is not important to a technology company Of course it is. If Google had it they wouldn’t be having so much trouble with regulators. Instead there are no internal checks and balances when Google’s particular brand of panopti-utopianism bumps up against the real world. A few more libertarians on staff and maybe they wouldn’t be caught up in so much privacy troubles. A few genuine socialists and maybe they wouldn’t be hounded by the tax authorities. And so on.