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Will be interesting to see how Google handles other old examples of people writing things perceived to be offensive. Apple clearly has taken the opposite approa
by wonderwonder 5y ago
Will be interesting to see how Google handles other old examples of people writing things perceived to be offensive. Apple clearly has taken the opposite approach, with the firing of Antonio Garcia Martinez. While the google employee's comments are clearly anti Semitic, one can hope he has changed since then and give him another chance. We are too quick to condemn people for life due to their past mistakes. With that said though, a diversity role is probably not going to be an ideal spot for him going forward and re-assigning him is good.
- commandlinefan 5y ago> one can hope he has changed since then and give him another chance I... can't help but think that, had he been a member of a different demographic, he would have just plain been fired.
- underseacables 5y agoAlmost certainly. The last 13 years has created a double standard. White: Guilty until proven innocent, and even then, still guilty. Person of color: No, that’s wrong, people of color cannot be racist or prejudice, what they said was taken out of content by someone who is racist. That’s the new paradigm. Racism, prejudice, and bigotry, of any kind, by anyone, is just wrong.
- KittenInABox 5y ago13 years should be plenty of time to have some studies covering this; do you have studies to prove this claim?
- lainga 5y agoPlenty of time... the totalitarian principle of QM notwithstanding, not everything not forbidden is compulsory at a macro level; academia is not a deterministic machine for yielding studies given the appearance of a phenomenon. Otherwise I'd ask you to provide some studies quantifying "plenty of time".
- KittenInABox 5y agoI feel 13 years should at least be producing nonfiction essays or something that passes for journalism. It took 4 years for 5000 trump books to come out. 13 years for the upending of racism towards being against the whites should be plenty, too.
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- bagacrap 5y agohow many years was it between the invention of floss and the connection of data that proved its efficacy?
- wonderwonder 5y agoUnfortunately you are probably right.
- mooseburger 5y agoRegarding Garcia Martinez, I am still surprised "straight male" is such a disadvantage that being POC doesn't buy enough oppression points to allow you to criticize white women. Then again, maybe it's more that being Hispanic specifically isn't enough. I have a hard time imagining a black man getting fired for the same comments.
- metalliqaz 5y agohe didn't even criticize white women. he employed sarcasm in a book filled with sarcasm to contrast one character against the local stereotype it's beyond stupid, especially for a company that works with Dr Dre
- bluthru 5y ago>Dr Dre I'm starting to notice a pattern.
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