Google fired him because the women in the company refused to come to work and were disruptive if they did show up. Some of them didn’t even work in his office and some of them didn’t even read his manifesto. Google was squeezed on both ends.
Google is a private business. They got in trouble for the diversity issue with the government. They were actively trying to address the problem. The leaders, decision makers in that company were trying to DO something about it.
This idiot wrote that thing in response to Google’s leadership acknowledging a problem and trying to solve it. It was messed up that leadership be squeezed like that by the very people they went to bat for because of some dickfucknutjacketdumbshit loser who couldn’t engineer an escape from a snail. He had no power to hurt anyone at Google. He was a no body. Until the people got mad at him for his stupidity which wasn’t even based on facts. Then Google had zero choice in the matter, they had to fire him.
If I as your editor in chief at TGM gave you a direction and you agreed to follow it, with no reluctance, would it be right for me to call you everyday and threaten you while you were working on it? No. I would never do such a thing. That’s not acceptable. We cannot keep punishing and pressuring once the change is in flight. We must give those working on the problem some space, while holding them accountable in a reasonable, professional fashion.
These are two types of oppression and they are different. Our reactions need to reflect that difference, otherwise we look like we are just going to go crazy about everything. Prioritizing problems is key in tech.
Applying that science to the comparison, we are literally bleeding in one space — the police brutality space — where people’s lives are being taken from them for having black skin; and in the other people are being told they can’t have a job.
Both are bad. My argument is that one should be a higher priority to fix for reasons:
- People are dying. That’s way fucked up and I want that to stop immediately.
- One has been acknowledged as a problem, the other has not.
- There are only so many hours in a day, week, year. We do not have infinite energy either. We have a backlog of oppression to correct. We should stop the murdering first.
This is my opinion. It doesn’t mean we don’t care about both at the same time. It means practically, we need all hands on deck to deal with the brutality problem right now. I am deeply impacted to my core when I see a mother grieving her child. It is wrong. It is a bigger grief then not getting the job you wanted. I’m sorry, that’s just how I feel.
