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Important to remember where these allegations originate from. Timnit Gebru was fired from Google after threatening to quit unless Google reveled the identities
by disruptalot 6y ago
Important to remember where these allegations originate from.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google after threatening to quit unless Google reveled the identities of the reviewers of her paper that was not received well while accusing them of sex/race based discrimination.
You can find some of the experiences of her from previous colleagues. You'll find the toxicity that she used in her time there and how she is picking the race/sex card on every situation. This is likely a continuation of that.
Not that the allegations can't be true, but people like this are really diluting the message and making it hard to tell the legitimate from exaggerated hit pieces.
- pm90 6y agoThat makes no sense. If she were as you described, there would have been more people coming forward and exposing her. Google is facing a roiling PR crisis: if there were a bunch of people who truly thought she “used race/sex card for every situation” we would have almost certainly heard about it. Instead what we have are articles in rather respectable publications describing an incredibly toxic culture at Google, and shifting statements from Google itself as it seeks to try and contain the fallout of the Pandora’s box of racism that has been opened.
- steeef 6y agoand if this article were about Timnit Gebru, this ad hominem attack would carry more weight. You can find plenty of other ex-Googlers saying the same thing: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-advised-mental-health-care-when-workers-complained-about-racism-n1259728 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-advised-mental...