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"It seems very unfair to paint Google as a prejudiced organization for carrying out a diversity exercise that is explicitly recommended by academics who work in
by staticautomatic 7y ago
"It seems very unfair to paint Google as a prejudiced organization for carrying out a diversity exercise that is explicitly recommended by academics who work in this field."
Yeah and the guy who invented the lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize. Following the advice of academics is not a license to take off your ethics hat.
- shadowgovt 7y agoLicense, no. ... but it makes for great legal cover.
- pstuart 7y agoAnd that's all this training is about: legal cover. One of many kubuki theatrics one must engage in as a corporate drone.
- ryacko 7y agoThis is just the following orders excuse, but with more institutions participating.
- shadowgovt 7y agoAs much hay is made of "just following orders" being no excuse, one sees it made so often because it does work, depending on the context. (In a sense, it even worked in the Nuremberg trials---basically everyone tried was executed, but the entirety of the German army and the civilian populace who supported the Nazi party were not, even though they, too, were "just following orders").
- ryacko 7y agoIt would be more honest if they all said, "we weren't thinking." I think they would have even been acquitted on the charges of criminal conspiracy if they used that argument.
- nearbuy 7y agoSurely you don't think they went through the trouble of having this diversity exercise in order to encourage discrimination? This is a case of someone who's trying to reduce bigotry being stupid, not unethical.