Yes, that controversial Google diversity rant matters. Like, really matters.

Think you don't need to care about the super inflammatory Google diversity manifesto that dropped this weekend? Think again.

The tech community has been abuzz since Saturday about what the leaked document — which is full of all kinds of sexist and racist commentary masquerading as an intellectual exercise — actually means. Plenty of people have argued it doesn't mean much. After all, it's just the thoughts of one exceedingly white tech bro, right? Wrong. So very wrong.

To review, the screed was reportedly penned by James Damore (the software engineer who Motherboard identified as the document's author), who engages in healthy dose of mental gymnastics to make the case that a) women are biologically different from men and that's why they don't get tech jobs and b) Google is not welcoming of conservative viewpoints and isn't open to rethinking its efforts to diversify. Read more...