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Why is Google such a scum?

Normally I don’t post about politics because it’s not fun. This time I’ll make an expection. We have this madness in our country too because we don’t have enough women in particular fields (politics, engineering, IT etc.) and some parties want to somehow readjust the distribution of genders. But how? They don’t take in account the “diversity” they loved to brag about. The idea of setting quotas for how many female or males we should hire is insane and in my opinion what Google is doing in this case is also insane. Firing people because they dared to talk about the reasons behind the inequality of gender distribution is simply WRONG.

Let me ask a simple question… are they not being evil here?

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    AuspiciousApricot

    Thanks for your article. It made me want to post something here that I have been running into over and over. I keep running into the same question and that is — If there is an honest “war on hate” why are real discrimination incidents rampant and generally unaddressed, while writers, activists, professors and others who might have influence subjected to baseless public accusations of hate speech?

    There is a big difference between the “war on hate” as it is promoted and the reality of living and working in the US. It’s not that easy to have a discrimination lawsuit here. (Despite the media hoopla). The legal environment defaults to protect corporations. The employee has to shell out large sums for legal expenses, while most corporations have lawyers on staff. They will drag out the dispute to exhaust someone’s financial resources. Most people don’t have enough evidence for a case. Attorneys generally have no interest without indisputable evidence. If they do get a lawyer, the employee will be hated and retaliated against while at work. They are not guaranteed any positive outcome. There is much headache and often no reward for a harassment or discrimination complaint.

    So, despite the “war on hate,” in reality harassment and discrimination occur on a regular basis. In NY state, the perpetrators are wealthy interests and/or a gang of cronies. A few years ago, I worked at an apparently respected company with a nationally known name. Right in the middle of so-called “me too” a manager circulated videos of female employees taken in the bathroom. Women and one trans male along with men, shared the videos widely. They openly commented in front of the victims. Without specific evidence, women could not sue. Specific evidence might seem like a good thing. But someone circulating a video of women in the bathroom is hardly going to give a copy to the victim’s attorney.

    The same company has been repeatedly accused of racism. There’s a hierarchy of middle managers that is extensive. There were zero black people in management I worked under. A highly motivated African American man at the company stayed for a couple of years and quit in frustration. I was surprised because he seemed so into his position and was not the type to quit. After he left, he told me the company did not have opportunity for people like him. As far as I know, there hasn’t been a successful case based on discrimination. There have been multiple complaints about it.

    As all this goes on, accusations of hate speech have become a convenient way for those in power to sideline journalists, whistleblowers, professors and activists.

    The trauma of racism and other forms of discrimination is real. But although there are well-meaning individuals and a few attorneys who do work in this area, in large part the “war on hate” appears to be a political tool which exploits trauma and identity to achieve ulterior goals.

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