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Come Monday, technology company Google was still reeling after an internal and controversial memo circulated by an employee went viral. The 10-page memo, which questioned the company’s diversity efforts, was the work of one person, but for CBS it meant a setback for all. “Tech-giant Google’s efforts to improve its image as a company that promotes diversity have been dealt a major setback, in the form of a memo from a male employee,” announced Anchor Anthony Mason during CBS Evening News.
The irony of being disgusted by a diverse opinion, albeit a controversial one, was lost on the network as they played up the memo as a travesty.
“This isn't sort of an isolated or fringe perspective in Silicon Valley,” diversity attorney Joelle Emerson told CBS reporter John Blackstone. “Lots of people from majority group, white men, in particular, might push back against organizations’ diversity and inclusion efforts.”
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