Mona Pereth wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
The "woke" censorship for "correct" ideas and language hurts Autistics who are genetically "wired" to use blunt and literal language. Unfortunately, all the sources about this require membership.
James Damore is the most famous case of this. Google asked for feedback from their employees about their diversity program. It was understood by most that certain answers were expected. Damore interpreted the instructions literally and gave an opinion that was not wanted and was said to make his fellow employees feel unsafe. Damore was fired.
The above-linked Wikipedia article on James Damore did not mention his autism except in a footnote referencing this news story:
'I see things differently': James Damore on his autism and the Google memo by Paul Lewis,
Guardian (U.K.), Fri 17 Nov 2017.
The
Guardian article says the following about the unfortunate timing of his memo:
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It came amid a cascade of reports about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley and a class-action lawsuit brought by women employed at Google alleging the company systematically pays women less than men for similar work.
This likely explains why he was fired. As part of its defense against the above-mentioned class action lawsuit, Google may have decided to fire Demore in order to prove that Google did not tolerate anything even remotely resembling disparagement of women's abilities.
As the article then goes on to say:
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Damore is pursuing legal action against Google and has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. He points out his document was circulating for weeks, but he was only fired after the leak caused a public relations crisis.
Well, yes, companies routinely fire people as a way of dealing with public relations crises.
There were a few well-read articles that came out at the time making the same point I did but like I said they now require membership. 2017 as I recall was the year #MeToo broke. The suit was probably the reason Google created the questionnaire with the purpose of firing people who wrote down the "wrong" answer.
The company culture of Google is "left".
A Leaked Video Shows Google Leadership Reacting To Trump's 2016 Election WinQuote:
A video published on Wednesday of a Google all-hands meeting in the days following the 2016 presidential election shows the company's senior leadership, including cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, CEO Sundar Pichai, and CFO Ruth Porat, reckoning with Donald Trump's shocking win and its reverberations around the world.
The video, which was published by Breitbart News, is certain to add fuel to conservative arguments that Silicon Valley is arrayed against the right.
In the video, Google's executives speculate about what motivated Trump voters, the role companies like Google played in informing voters about the election, and the possible consequences of Trump's win.
"We have no idea what direction this country will take... It's a period of great uncertainty... especially for immigrants or minorities [and] women," Brin told Google employees. Brin noted, "As an immigrant and a refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive, and I know many of you do too."
Google responded to the leaked video in a statement on Wednesday that emphasized the distinction between its employees' personal views and the products they create.
"At a regularly scheduled all-hands meeting, some Google employees and executives expressed their own personal views in the aftermath of a long and divisive election season," the statement reads. "For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings. Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products. To the contrary, our products are built for everyone, and we design them with an extraordinary care to be a trustworthy source of information for everyone, without regard to political viewpoint."
In the video, Google executives seek to explain the reasons behind Trump's upset of Hillary Clinton and specifically consider the psychology of Trump voters. "There's actually a lot of historical precedent for boredom being a huge factor in vote choice, and actually in building extremism," Brin said. "Also when people vote ... voting is not a rational act."
Larry Page, Brin's cofounder, characterized the resentment felt by Trump voters as both justified and potentially catastrophic. "I think we have a lot of structural problems in our democracies, and which I think is really, if you are worried about the World War III–type cases, I think a lot of that will be driven by this deep dissatisfaction that people have, some of which is really warranted."
The video offers ample proof that Google leadership finds Trump and his supporters distasteful and contrary to the company's stated values. It doesn't show, though, any evidence that Google's tools are built to disadvantage conservatives. The closest thing to that happens when a Google employee asks the executives how the company might combat "targeted campaigns of disinformation" to protect "low-information voters" — a clear reference to Trump backers.
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It is Autism Acceptance Month
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
11 Oct 2022, 2:15 pm
