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1.) It's not so simple. There are social mechanisms at play that will lead to a segregated workforce if we do not combat them. In today's world it takes effort to maintain a diverse workforce. As as to whether its a good thing, I think that a) diversity of people means diversity of ideas and solutions, and b) diversity in workers helps combat some of the social mechanisms that would keep the workforce segregated. It is also of the uptmost importance to note that raising diversity in the workforce is orthogonal to compromising on the quality of workers.

2.) Yonatan Zunger's response to the manifesto has been highly shared, but I think his essay "Tolerance is not a moral precept" is an important framework when talking about this issue. The basic premise is that by adopting tolerance as a social norm, we are not agreeing to also tolerate intolerance. Companies like Google have set out the edict that all their workers should be treated with respect. By questioning the inate abilities of a large portion of the workforce, the manifesto's author is doing great damage to the attitude of tolerance that allows Google to operate. He isn't be prosecuted by the government, but he is necessarily being expunged from an enviromenent that he is incompatible with.