Posted on 08/10/2017 12:12:18 PM PDT by reaganaut1
For any readers who don’t know about this case already, “it” refers to Google’s decision to fire an engineer because he posted a ten-page internal memo that took issue with some of the firm’s policies, especially its “diversity” stance.
(The text of the memo, written by James Damore, is available here, but note the misleading characterization of his writing as a “screed” – much of the leftist media treated Damore’s work as if it were something scarcely this side of Mein Kampf.)
In a nutshell, Damore, who says here that he wrote the memo after taking part in a Google diversity program, criticizes the way the company goes about fostering diversity. It’s calm, carefully worded, and supported by science. Nevertheless, it caused the company’s leadership to blow a gasket. Damore delenda est!
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai explained the company’s decision to terminate Damore, saying that while “we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves,” Damore’s affiliation with the company could no longer continue because “portions of the memo cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.”
This is reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, where people who dared to think were apt to be labeled “deviationist” and sent to Siberia. Because he dared to question some aspects of Google’s diversity mania, Damore is a deviationist. He can’t be sent to Siberia, but he can be fired, never again to either use his evident engineering talents for Google or make other Googlers feel hurt or afraid because there’s a dissident lurking around.
Many people are asking this $64,000 (or perhaps more like $64 million) dollar question: Does Damore have a legal case against Google.
Some people think he does.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I’m studying the French Revolution a bit. Interesting how the Left back then praised liberty & equality, then proceeded to kill everyone that even slightly disagreed with the party line - including those who pulled off 90% of the Revolution in the first place.
They got away with firing someone for his views. An employer can do whatever it wants. Yes, it’s wrong, but they can do it. There is no recourse.
All the major corporations have gone over to the left, and are enforcing the new laws of fascism regarding thoughts about gays and m*slims. There is no freedom of speech or opinion.
When the government does it, it violates the Constitution, so it needs to rename what it’s doing and to use “nice” words, like “hate” speech, and the various phobias.
He could sue but, since the joke of a judicial system has been stacked with libs and fags, he'd lose.
Damore must have known that he was entering an intolerant snake pit when he got hired. That would make a lawsuit more challenging.
Robespierre met his karma..............
Corporations “are enforcing the new laws of fascism regarding thoughts “.
They have no choice if they are to defend against ‘equal rights’ suits.
So it’s really the government that is banning the speech- despite the First Amendment.
It’s probably illegal, but as much weight as Google carries, they’ll almost certainly get away with it.
1. Don't trust HR. They don't work for you. They work for the company.
2. "Free speech" isn't really free of consequence, especially in the workplace.
3. When a company asks for feedback, they aren't really asking for feedback.
4. When a company says "diversity," they're really talking about discriminating against white men. They're not talking about diversity of opinion. They don't want to know the truth.
5. Your coworkers will, by and large, throw you under the bus to show how virtuous they are and to get in good with management.
So Pichai said they say they support workers expressing themselves, but they really don't.
I highly recommend the movie, “The REd Pill” to anyone reading this. It appears, from the ten page document, that this guy has seen that movie and is quoting some info from it.
It looks like, thanks to the publicity and response this letter is getting, along with the environment into which it has been thrust, that we may be seeing the end of the feminist movement as we know it.
That is a very good thing for both men and women.
I believe the terms: 'Left wing', and 'Right wing', came from the French Revolution. I'm not sure if this part is true, but a pastor claimed that the Revolutionist socialists were so anti-Christian that they insisted that they wanted to be known as the 'goats on Christ's left hand' - and to have nothing to do with the sheep on Christ's right hand. Thus they called themselves the Left.
The official etymology is that the Socialists wanted to be associated with the 'commoners' who sat on the left side of the National Assembly, and not the aristocrats who sat on the right side - but I suspect that the pastor's claim has some truth to it. The socialists of the French Revolution were definitely anti-Christ and anti-God.
I can only presume how you have gained such insights, but you are spot on.
Maybe he can make a case that Google is a hostile workplace? Seems interesting that their diversity chief said all okay, only to then have the CEO fire the guy. Anyway, I’m sure he has a case, likely use Google’s own policies and practices against them. Did the guy use the internal forum incorrectly or was the topic just inconvenient?
Thanks. As you might have guessed, these insights came through hard experience.
Everyone who wants to last in the corporate or government work force should take that list to heart.
Yes. He told the truth.
Actually it's easy to create a targeted survey sent to one or a few selected individuals but ostensibly randomly distributed.
The effort is to get the unsuspecting, suspected employees to be on record with their unPC opinions and make a firing easier to stick.
Bkmk
I just finished the ten pages.
When Google fired him, they proved his point.
That is a VERY well written docuement that presses most of the buttons on the PC world in which we now live. It nails them to the wall. It will be fun to see how this plays out both in the court of public opinion and in a real courtroom.
He said nothing in there that I saw as damaging to anyone. They just don’t like the concepts he rightly brings up.
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