I bet Jeffrey Dahmer didn’t have a history of complaining about cannibalism either, but that doesn’t necessarily make him the good guy.
1. Did in fact go through and pass the internal approval process that he implied it didn't.
2. Was then subjected to a second, intransparent "review" that is not customary practice at Google.
3. The results of that "review" were presented to the author as a decree (which also is not customary practice).
4. And when the author subsequently protested that she would not work under such rules (as well she should) that was taken as a pretext to let her go — without even involving her direct manager.
Under those circumstances, Dean's response is misleading and evasive, a practice often characterized as "gaslighting" or, in the term that the grandparent comment ridiculed, a "micro-aggression".
It's not about whether you're a "white dude", it's what rules you set for "white dudes" vs. "non-white non-dudes".
Did Jeff Dean think Timnit was a white dude and so let her publish, but when he found out she was a brown woman, he said he cannot stand for this?
These 4 points were all taken from the blog post I referenced, which I found well documented and thus credible:
https://googlewalkout.medium.com/setting-the-record-straight...
> Why would they publish multiple of her papers on basically the same exact subject, but then decide they need to stop her at all costs for this paper?
You tell me. If they were truly on "basically the same exact subject", there can't really be a scientific explanation for some to be publishable and others not, can there?
Or, your theories are flawed in some manner and don't actually capture the truth. I'm asking you how previous behavior would fit into the theories that you yourself believe.