"Danielle Brown, only recently named the VP of diversity at Google, was included in the first set of eight screenshots. By Monday, she had already locked her Twitter account after receiving an onslaught of abuse.
"That same collection of eight screenshots made its way onto former Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos’ Facebook on Wednesday.
"The targeting of those specific Googlers might have been the work of outsiders, but anxieties are running high inside the company because of the publication of screenshots from the internal Google+ on alt-right channels. On Tuesday, Gizmodo reported that a meme depicting whistleblowers being beaten was being shared on an internal meme generator.
"On Sunday, alt-right blogger Vox Day published screenshots from the internal Google+, showing employees criticizing the Damore memo. On Monday, Breitbart published an even larger set of internal screenshots. Names and profile pictures were not redacted. "What really gets me is that when Googlers leaked these screenshots, they knew this was the element of the internet they were leaking it to," a former Google employee tells The Verge. "They knew they were subjecting their colleagues to this type of abuse.""
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/10/16128518/google-town-hall...
On the one hand, given the "discussion", firing the guy who lit the match is starting to look more reasonable.
On the other, the little tiny Libertarian on my shoulder keeps saying, "a company should be free to hire or fire anyone they want."
["If there were policies set in stone saying white men got precedence over black women, would you say "who the hell cares?""
In a company made up of 80% black women? Probably.]
