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		golemotron on Aug 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversi... > On the one hand they need to grow their pool of talent and make the non majority to feel comfortable It isn't useful to make people comfortable in a way that is easily destabilized by other information (be it opinion or scientific research). It's actually terribly fragile and it does a real disservice to people.

mc32 on Aug 8, 2017 [–]

True but they just can't impose received knowledge the way an authoritarian regime could.

There are advantages to having absolute power over people. But the disadvantages (corruption and despotism, for example) are too great.

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