Google employees are up in arms after a senior engineer at the company penned an anti-diversity manifesto that has spread through the company like wildfire.
The manifesto apparently argued that Google should halt initiatives aimed at increasing gender and racial diversity within the company and instead focus on “ideological diversity,” according to a report by Vice’s Motherboard, which first reported the news late on Friday. The document also reportedly argued that biological difference between men and women are responsible for the underrepresentation of women in the tech industry.
News of the document has sparked widespread outrage on the internet, including by several Google employees who took to Twitter to denounce it.
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If HR does nothing in this case, I will consider leaving this company for real for the first time in five years.
— Jaana B. Dogan 👀 (@rakyll) August 4, 2017
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The doc was a disaster from a truly bad place. Pure toxicity. Be assured we are all with you (and feeling the same).
— Louis Gray (@louisgray) August 4, 2017
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The article is publicly supported by many people internally.Begs the question, how many privately support/agreee/subscribe.
— Sarah Adams (@sadams007) August 5, 2017
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He’s not been fired as of this writing. The screed is *still* accessible by all employees.
— Liz Fong-Jones (@lizthegrey) August 5, 2017
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That garbage fire of a document is trash and you are wonderful coworkers who I am extremely lucky to work with.
— Andrew Bonventre (@andybons) August 4, 2017
The controversy comes at a time when Silicon Valley’s treatment of women has been in the spotlight, following a string of allegations of harassment and discrimination at large companies such as Uber and at several high-profile venture capital firms. Google is also embroiled in a legal dispute with the Department of Labor, which has accused Google of “systemic compensation disparities” between men and women.
At the same time, the incident comes against a backdrop of heightened discord throughout the country as once-marginalized views of the so-called alt-right, which decry “political correctness,” have been amplified and championed by many supporters of President Trump.
The Motherboard report did not identify the author of the controversial document but said that it was written by a senior software engineer and shared on an internal Google mailing list.
Google did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment.
Het bericht A senior engineer at Google wrote a manifesto against diversity and employees are furious verscheen eerst op Business Insider.