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Social Justice Ideology Within Google Escalates, Huge Protest

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News, Politics

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

College Social Justice Protests Have Entered The Workforce. Among their list of demands over abuse allegations, google staffers around the world demanded that the company institute a policy of hiring people based on gender and race at all levels of the company and be penalized for it.

These appear to be the same type of protests you would see at college only now its happening at google. Typically these types of diversity and social justice demands were seen at schools but now we see the same phenomenon happening at Google offices.

The demands being made are not compensatory ones but demands of ideological changes within the company.

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0:00.0

In a recent interview with Jordan Peterson, a GQ journalist said to him that what happens

0:05.2

in colleges tends not to follow these people after they leave, and that as people get older,

0:10.9

they become more conservative.

0:11.9

It's an interesting point to make, however, Jordan Peterson countered saying, no, it's

0:16.1

going to start affecting the real world, and now we might actually be seeing this, as

0:20.1

a massive walkout happened today at Google around the world, various Google offices.

0:25.5

Now people were protesting some things that kind of make sense.

0:28.4

They want an end to forced arbitration when it comes to sexual harassment.

0:31.8

But they're also demanding diversity requirements across the board and a chief diversity officer

0:37.4

who answers to the CEO.

0:39.3

So we can see that what happens in college actually does start affecting the real world and business.

0:44.8

What's interesting is that it's often been said, a business that prioritizes diversity

0:49.3

over meritocracy will suffer.

0:51.5

And if these protests continue, it could be bad news for Google.

0:55.0

But are the demands from these protesters unreasonable?

0:58.3

Let's take a look and we'll start by reading the first story about the walkout.

1:01.8

From CNN, Google employees are walking out over sexual harassment scandals.

1:06.2

However, the protesters have actually issued a list of demands, and it's not necessarily

1:10.8

about sexual harassment scandals, but we'll read what CNN has to say.

1:14.1

Google employees around the world walked out of their offices on Thursday in a global

1:17.6

protest over how the company deals with sexual harassment.

1:20.4

This is not true.

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