[throwaway19937]

Timnit's position is a direct result of her actions and internal reputation at Google.

No one forced her to do any of the following things:

1. Griping about the racist reviewers of her paper on Twitter.

2. Sending an email to a internal list criticizing Google's behavior and telling people to stop working on diversity.

3. Demanding the names of reviewers and threatening to resign if they weren't provided.

#2 or #3 would get you fired or cause your resignation to be accepted any place that I've worked.

#1 wouldn't get you fired but it's not going to help your career.

[tb303]

even if i agreed with you about some of those points (and i worked at google 2013-2015, internally criticized many of their processes, and was lectured about "my place" at google), everything you said is independent of reading into someone's motives. you're arguing with a point i am not making at all and trivializing the abuse timnit subjects herself to in going public with this.