Google and its parent Alphabet Corporation have played the political correctness game adroitly, not simply “fitting in” but actually help create and sustain the culture of high tech progressivism that dominates the Bay Area and other tech meccas. For years, it has skated by on a useless motto, “Don’t be evil,” as if that vague injunction settled all moral questions.  But any institution that prospers mightily will attract critics, anxious to substitute their priorities for the decisions management makes, preferably in the wake of a settlement that enriches lawyers and the purportedly offended victims.  Such is Google’s fate, as its high-pressure meritocracy has run up against the PC dogma that claims every possible demographic slice of humanity has precisely the same talents and aptitudes, so any differential in the pay or responsibility for different demographic segments in the workplace can only be explained by discrimination. The...(Read Full Post)