A Google engineer wrote a manifesto calling for diversity of the mind, for ideological diversity, over the identity politics diversity that companies love so much. And Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded by firing him.
Point made.
Pichai's post is endorses free speech but claims that the employee was fired for perpetuating "stereotypes". Anyone worried about free speech can pay a visit to Pichai. And he'll fire them too. The post is full of the usual prog horror at the agony suffered by other leftist employees who had to experience the torture of free speech they disagreed with. The cries of the oppressed, who remains oppressed even though they're the ones with the power to fire other employees for disagreeing with them, ring in Pichai's ears.
Diversity is a great thing. Who can argue with that.
Take Google.
Google needs to be more diverse. Why should Google be one company when it can be split up into a diverse collection of 5 or 6 separate companies.
Currently Google is a giant monopoly which leverages its monopolistic control over search, online advertising and video (not to mention a few other fields) to crush competitors and promote its own products and services.
All of this is illegal. But Republicans toe the capitalist line. Even with anti-capitalist companies. And Google is a friendly lefty corporation so the Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders types (to say nothing of the Obama types) leave them alone.
Maybe that should change.
Let's bring a little diversity to search. As Google continues to censor search results, to embed partisan fact check attacks on conservatives into its search monopoly, maybe it's time to bring diversity to Google by breaking it up.
A little anti-trust investigation never hurt anyone. Except a soulless monopoly that is bent on controlling the internet. Soulless monopolies that love leftist diversity should experience some actual diversification. Google would be a much nicer company if it were six companies. Split its ad business from its search business and let's see how it does with some of that diversity.
Take it to the FTC and then the DOJ. Let's get the Senate Judiciary Committee on it. (Give Grassley, Graham or Cruz a call).
And then Google can have all the diversity it wants. And so can all the other Silicon Valley companies that care a great about leftist check box diversity while purging ideological diversity.
What we need is not a diversity of hiring quotas, but a diversity of companies competing with each other to offer the best products and services. Google has gotten fat, lazy and corrupt on its monopoly. When it actually has to compete, it will have less time to hire diversity executives to purge its staff. It will need its best minds to survive.