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Anti-diversity Google engineer fired: BBC News Review

Neil and Dan teach you the language the world's media is using to discuss this story:
A software engineer working for Google, who criticised the company’s diversity policy in an internal memo, says he’s been sacked for perpetuating gender stereotypes.
James Damore had claimed there were biological causes for men and women having different preferences and abilities, which might explain the lack of women in leadership and technical roles.
Google has said it won’t discuss individual cases.
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Key words and phrases
slams
criticises strongly
contentious
causing argument or disagreement
hits a nerve
upsets someone
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Пікірлер: 32

  • @gloirentabala3132
    @gloirentabala3132 Жыл бұрын

    Neil, you're a comedian and I really love the way you make jokes. Can you stop doing that please? 😂😂😂This funny sentence, I love it.

  • @lamoooooooooo118
    @lamoooooooooo1187 жыл бұрын

    Is contentious synonym for controversial ?

  • @weishen9020
    @weishen9020 Жыл бұрын

    Gender equality has been overused nowadays. My professor was told to lower his standard to admit “enough” girls just to keep the gender diversity of my university. So sad for those qualified boys who didn’t get the admissions.

  • @tgchan
    @tgchan7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @tomibru6
    @tomibru67 жыл бұрын

    Your lessons are so gripping. I'm totally hooked on 'em. I love your British accents.

  • @daisychain86
    @daisychain867 жыл бұрын

    I love Dan's stories! :)

  • @khonyoungparents1654
    @khonyoungparents16547 жыл бұрын

    i really enjoy watching and learning a new word from this video. thank you.

  • @AbbasMwali
    @AbbasMwali7 жыл бұрын

    Thanx

  • @jeetubechannel5778
    @jeetubechannel57787 жыл бұрын

    can i text English under the screen please.

  • @davidmessulam
    @davidmessulam7 жыл бұрын

    3:57 ..."between Neil and I".... Mustn't it be ..."between Neil and I"...?

  • @AhmadAlhamwi-ir8xc
    @AhmadAlhamwi-ir8xc7 жыл бұрын

    thanks for these beneficial words :)

  • @khonyoungparents1654
    @khonyoungparents16547 жыл бұрын

    thank you for sharing knowledge to us.

  • @AnnabelleJARankin
    @AnnabelleJARankin7 жыл бұрын

    Of course there are biological causes for femininity and masculinity and they favour different jobs. How ridiculous the world is becoming. How can there be anything wrong with holding that opinion?

  • @jamesdelooeste
    @jamesdelooeste7 жыл бұрын

    The meat of matter is that the men have predisposition to develop the logical reasoning

  • @dylanjohnson2602
    @dylanjohnson26027 жыл бұрын

    Being diverse just to be diverse isn't good

  • @Simte
    @Simte7 жыл бұрын

    Great news!

  • @TKibDi
    @TKibDi7 жыл бұрын

    where can i find the subtitles, please?

  • @arleyantes9321
    @arleyantes93217 жыл бұрын

    Very good news review!

  • @Abu-Aley
    @Abu-Aley7 жыл бұрын

    That smart engineer is the first rational person who dared to speak frankly and criticize the "FAKE" gender equality . Across the long human history we haven't seen women established dynasties, started wars, took the lead for new adventures, solved radical problems, or shaped the mankind history, except in a very few cases, and nowadays, after calling for the "so-called" gender equality for more than a century, we still see very limited number of women took the pioneer or even became equal to man in number in fields, like aviation, war fields, even in many sports like football and martial arts, when they do them there matches are not interesting, why? the answer is pretty as simple as this. The biological and physical differences between man and woman, which many folks under the leadership of the western values, don't believe in it, and they keep resist these crystal clear facts. Seriously, I am not anti-feminist or underestimating the woman's value at all. I had female managers over me in my career path, and some of them I learnt a lot from them, but that because they we worked in a field where women can work in, which is the software business applications. So, this is the point, we must confess that some areas women can participate in and do great job, and some they can't because of their nature, and this is not a hypothetical assumption, as mentioned above, they are the history, the current facts, scientific fact who say this not my opinion or that engineer's opinion. With my all respect to every woman, Regards,

  • @itsuyin9752

    @itsuyin9752

    5 жыл бұрын

    “It’s much easier for some to point to ‘innate biological differences’ than to confront the unconscious biases and obstacles that get in the way of a level playing field”

  • @ItsMe-ox8lm
    @ItsMe-ox8lm7 жыл бұрын

    I love this section!

  • @thaohuynhthach5091
    @thaohuynhthach50917 жыл бұрын

    😘😘😘😘😘😘

  • @user-wn5rc7mv7h
    @user-wn5rc7mv7h7 жыл бұрын

    Guys! Do you acknowledge the existence of men and women?

  • @eMCatErO

    @eMCatErO

    7 жыл бұрын

    of course, but the white women got trolled and are too weak to protect their youngs

  • @lordsonspokenenglishacadem3898
    @lordsonspokenenglishacadem38987 жыл бұрын

    This guy has to shave and hair cut also, I am afraid but presentation is good