Silicon Valley’s weapon of choice against women: Shoddy science. The Google memo is poorly argued and reaches the wrong conclusion. The anti-diversity memo leaked out of Google is typical tech industry discrimination. Thread: “Look, tech problem isn’t just discrimination against women+minorities. It's hostility to ESSENTIAL skills that/because many engineers lack”. Thread: “Whether it's their Bronifestos or their skeevy DMs, men are mostly unchallenged on their beliefs that they are unique geniuses”. Diversity problems in the tech industry go far beyond Google. A Googler’s would-be manifesto reveals tech’s rotten core. Segregated Valley: The ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech. Tech’s sexism doesn’t stay in Silicon Valley — it’s in the products you use.
Why Google doesn’t need to care about employees’ free speech. Fired Google-memo author James Damore’s first stop: Alt-Right YouTube. The alt-Right finds a new enemy in Silicon Valley. Google’s fired “politically incorrect” engineer has sparked a broad ideological debate. Why the conservative response to the Google memo is hypocritical. The perfect culture war: How conservative pundits reacted to Google’s fired engineer. The culture wars have come to Silicon Valley. Behind the Google diversity memo furor is fear of Google’s vast, opaque power: Why an anti-diversity memo by a midlevel software engineer became a national scandal.
