Google's Ideological Echo Chamber

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How bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion

Paper published by ex-Googler James Damore. He was ultimiately fired for writing this. Google's fragile DE&I dogma couldn't take even the slightest scrutiny.

TL;DR (from PDF)

• Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.
• This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed.
• The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.
  • Extreme: all disparities in representation are due to oppression
  • Authoritarian: we should discriminate to correct for this oppression
• Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership.
• Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.