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.
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.
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?
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.
If google would have ignored it, it would have proven him wrong, and would have been quickly forgotten.
Geniuses.
And I also notice their big motto “don’t be evil”. Tell you that from day one they knew they were. Imagine your spouse walking out the door saying a mantra “don’t have an affair”.
Says a lot about them that their motto is “don’t be evil”.
I think this matter might be more destructive to Google than people might think. Google’s only profitable line of business is advertising, but they are being called upon to essentially limit their revenues there via censorship. They might be able to get away with censorship if they’re trusted to only censor that which really should be (calls to violence, etc.). But if it gets out that they’re intolerant of any ideological diversity internally, it stand to reason that they can’t be trusted to protect it externally. I suspect they’ll try to settle with this guy ASAP.
If this had been written by a woman there would have been a totally different outcome.
Back in my days of being a manager here in Silicon Valley they would make you attend ‘training’.
What I learned in training was avoid women in the workplace entirely unless you had to interact with them about their job performance.
Whenever I needed to ‘correct’ a female employee I ALWAYS had a witness, and then took notes.
Feminism has destroyed and hope for a positive workplace.
Not that it is a big deal, but I did my little part and canceled my gmail account, using yahoo now. I hate google and what they don’t stand for...
As an employer I used to be required to keep a poster up of employee anti-discrimination rights. The anti-discrimination list included “Creed”. Do they still have this? is this still a viable anti-discrimination clause and protection?
Creed of course is one’s right to personal opinion.
August 2017:
James Damore fired
Sargon banned on Twitter
Diamond and Silk demonetized on Youtube
Drudge's tweet censored
This is war.
The overlapping area is for people with cognitive dissonance.
Martin Luther King of Google