Ex-Google Employee's Memo Says Executives Shut Down Pro-Diversity Discussions
&quot;...ALLEGATIONS made by former Google employees James Damore and David Gudeman in a discrimination lawsuit filed against their former employer. Damore and Gudeman CLAIM that Google encouraged pro-diversity voices within the company and stifled conservative views. However, THE NEW DOCUMENT ILLUSTRATES that employees who spoke out in favor of diversity initiatives were reprimanded as well...&quot; [ALL CAPS added by me]<p>So, the consistently left-leaning analysts at Gizmodo inform us that James Damore, whom Google themselves say they fired for the opinions expressed in a memo we can all read and see for ourselves what he was fired for, is still only <i>alleging</i> and <i>claiming</i> that the company that SAYS they fired him for expressing these views stifles conservative views.<p>But a MEMO written by a guy whom Google didn&#x27;t fire at all, much less for expressing a pro-diversity opinion, but simply quit becomes a NEW DOCUMENT that ILLUSTRATES facts about Google not otherwise in evidence.<p>I lived in a country once with a state-controlled media that would begin its evening news reports with statements such as, &quot;US President so-and-so claimed such-and-such today, but our-glorious-leader set the record straight, pointing out that blah-blah.&quot; I wondered how people in that country could hear that template and not see that it was blatantly biased <i>at the template level</i>. It wasn&#x27;t just a biased interpretation of the issue, but was biased on the face of it, <i>even before anything about the actual issue was inserted in the blanks</i>.<p>But I discovered that people who <i>consistently</i> heard media talking this way couldn&#x27;t detect even this blatant a bias in format, much less in the content of the actual issue, so the writers didn&#x27;t have to even pretend superficially. With government-controlled media, most people lived in a bubble. Everything they were told agreed with everything else they were told, so it was just common sense, and anything I said that contradicted &quot;the narrative&quot; was considered utter nonsense.<p>What does it say about the tech audience Gizmodo is writing for that they are as confident as the state media in that small, tropical dictatorship, that they can be this blatant and their audience lives in such an ideological bubble, self-imposed in our case, that they&#x27;ll approve of it and want more like it?