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To clarify: you are aware that, prior to the memo, Google already a lawsuit on their hands from the Department of Labor with regards to alleged gender discrimination?

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And let's not forget their participation in at least one de facto cartel to suppress salaries.

https://phys.org/news/2015-01-apple-google-settlement-high-t...

Don't forget to mention Google wouldn't hand over the data the Department of Labor demanded.

This is what really gets me and confuses me.

Google is accused of a "left wing bias" by many defenders of the manifesto and the writer himself. And yet, they don't want to turn over information that they're fairly hiring, firing and paying wages fairly?

How is being sly and secretive about your hiring practices and wage information "left wing"? Hardly seems consistent with the idea of supporting worker rights.

So how does Google (not to mention, it is a capitalist organisation) have a "left wing bias", as they say?

I see no evidence for it.

> Google is accused of a "left wing bias" by many defenders of the manifesto and the writer himself. And yet, they don't want to turn over information that they're fairly hiring, firing and paying wages fairly?

Then Google should cough up the data. But they won't, because they're hiding malfeasance.

Are you serious? This is exactly the criticism leveled against the left. They've abandoned free speech, they judge people based on race, they've ignored working class voters in favor of coastal elites, yet they keep telling themselves they're "liberal."

I suppose I have a different idea of what 'left' means, then. For me, 'left' is at least strong social democracy and preferably [democratic] Socialism, Communism and anarchism. Not the US Democratic Party.

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