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1/7 Follow-up to the thread I posted last week about how SJW attitudes have infiltrated the tech world: One of the most compelling demonstrations of SJW influences in tech is in the many examples listed in the legal complaint brought by James Damore against Google...
2/7 ...which can be viewed in full at dropbox.com/s/qumybkgxo5lb…. The appendix to that document is full of screenshots of memes, memos, emails, forum posts and other proofs of these attitudes. Here are 2 particularly illuminating examples of it. Example 1 from pgs 51-52 of the doc:
3/7 Google HR distributed a handout which instructed managers that “individual achievement”, “perfectionism”, and “winning” were examples of 'White/Male Dominant Culture'. It goes on to list examples of things that are “valued” by the dominant “white/male” culture of the US... 
4/7 ...these include: "Meritocracy, winning, avoiding conflict, a belief in objectivity, a 'colorblind racial frame', urgency, numbers driven, and perfectionism." Notice also the contradiction in the table, somehow both arguing AND avoiding conflict are valued by white people.
5/7 Example 2 from page 32 of the document: Google scolded an employee for promoting (in response to a specific request for such info) a parenting style that teaches traditional gender roles.
6/7 Yet Google didn't have any problem with someone who identified as "a yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin", even going so far as to give him (it?) an opportunity to give a talk on the subject at an internal company event.
Some might argue that these are fringe attitudes, not....
Some might argue that these are fringe attitudes, not....
7/7 ...not held by the majority of the employees, and indeed that may indeed be true. But the fact that the official policy of one of the most powerful companies in the world is to promote these attitudes indisputably shows the reach and influence of SJW ideologues.
For those who want to see more examples from the Damore complaint of SJW attitudes at Google, these 2 threads have extensive coverage:
