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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlt-Right Activists Call for Google Boycott After Employee Is Fired for Anti-Diversity Paper
Google fired a software engineer yesterday in response to public outrage over the mans 10-page screed against women being represented proportionally in tech companies. But the firing has become a call-to-arms for alt-right voices on the internet who are crowdfunding money for the engineer, James Damore, and are now calling for a boycott of Google.
The calls for a boycott have gained steam on Twitter, where names like Mike Cernovich, Michael Tracey, and Paul Joseph Watson have joined the chorus of people with usernames like CNNisRetarded, TheMuddyCuck, and Grammar Nawtsy in being angered by what they call diversity crybullies.
Some of the calls to boycott the tech giant refer to getting red pilled, a term popular in alt-right circles for when people see reality clearly. The term comes from the 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix, where the hero takes a red pill to see the real world around him. In this case, alt-right activists believe that getting red-pilled means you can see the misandry inherent in Googles decision to fire the engineer.
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Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)I wish I could boycott Google some days. They've basically taken over my phone.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Initech
(99,909 posts)Wake up snowflakes!!!
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)1) Few good things ever come from manifestos.
2) Guy should have been fired for writing almost entirely in bullet points.
3) He could have at least used a numbered list