Google’s Outrage Mobs and Witch Hunts

https://medium.com/@mikewacker/googles-outrage-mobs-and-witch-hunts-b1d8fa9c74d9

by ericras • 7 years ago

11 2 7 years ago

Buried in the lede:

"Now that doesn’t mean you can’t espouse pro-life views at Google. You are still free to espouse pro-life views so long as activists don’t perceive those views to be hateful, incendiary, or inflammatory. Just remember that some of these activists also think that women can’t be expected to work at Google if it donates to groups that espouse pro-life views."

How about we all just quit trying to live our lives at work and just go there to work? Political and religious views are personal and we should just keep it that way. Although, I don't lay the blame on the employees. Corporations creating an environment where the lines between professional and personal lives are blurred beyond meaning create these problems. A career is something you do, your views are something you are. That being said, no one is being forced to work for Google either so if someone is that unhappy with the job, just get a different one.

pcunite• 7 years ago

I'm commenting here so that the Google algorithms can identify me correctly.

HR (and my management) has completely abandoned any pretense of enforcing any sort of objective and impartial standard ... at least we now know the definition of “hate speech” that Google HR uses: anything that Google’s activists perceive as hateful.

Google, look at thyself. What are you championing? Why don't you focus on software, and let politics take care of itself.

Google’s Outrage Mobs and Witch Hunts

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