Google can't seem to tolerate diversity

Gender issues won't be solved if political correctness shuts down every conversation

Google is scrambling to distance itself from one of its engineers, who has gained infamy for publishing a 10-page criticism of the company’s “authoritarian” approach to achieving gender diversity. If the goal was to confirm the author’s thesis, Team Google is doing a great job.

Titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”, the anonymous memo sets out a well-intentioned goal: Find non-discriminatory ways to reduce gender disparities. At last tally, women occupied only 20 per cent of tech jobs at the Alphabet Inc unit, a dismal number even by Silicon Valley standards.

The author argues that Google’s use of targets (known as “objectives and