lilbit4point0:

wombatking:

stupidjewishwhiteboy:

brainstatic:

garbagefingers:

lol 🔪 @ people who are upset that Google guy got fired. “What he wrote was terrible and I won’t defend it, but getting fired for ~opinions~???”

People want to act like he was fired for thought crimes. That guy didn’t tell his shitty opinions to his shitty friends in confidence, or keep his shitty thoughts to himself, he wrote a shitty manifesto that he circulated at his office!!!!!

And all of these super logical, objective guys are missing the material consequences of what he was saying. He was saying “I should not be put into any leadership role because I will not evaluate my staff rationally.” Like outside the immorality of it, he was saying he was not a good employee.

People should read Yonatan Zunger’s Medium article, where he points out what the guy did is the definition of creating a hostile work environment.

Maybe most importantly to the company, he created days of bad PR for google. I’m betting that was what he ultimately was fired for. 

“If you hadn’t written this manifesto, then maybe we’d be having a conversation about the skills you need to learn to not be blocked in your career — which are precisely the ones you described as “female skills.” But we are having a totally different conversation now. It doesn’t matter how good you are at writing code; there are plenty of other people who can do that. The negative impact on your colleagues you have created by your actions outweighs that tremendously.”