Can Google Get Away With It?

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.

Well, Patton said you don't want to die for your country, you want the other SOB to die for his. Likewise, while experience is certainly the best teacher, it's even better if you're taught from someone else's experience, not your own.

So, while the engineer in question takes the fall, how many thousands - if not millions - of STEM white males have now figured out the game? If everyone knows there are significant, biological and genetic differences, then who really cares if everyone mouths some ridiculous party line?

Isn't one of the hallmarks of being a conservative as being able to deal with reality, and adapt? At the end of the day, if a company you happen to work for (or is a customer) which is gaining market share because of their lies, then who cares if you're personally making bank?

Politics and the public square are where opinions matter; not the private workspace. Everyone got on Kapernick for confusing these two separate environments. Work is where you toe the line, do what you have to do to make money - within the law - and don't let it effect your emotional behavior.

That's what wimps do - it's a feminine characteristic unbecoming in men.

Gab‏Verified account @getongab 10h10 hours ago

August 2017:

James Damore fired
Sargon banned on Twitter
Diamond and Silk demonetized on Youtube
Drudge's tweet censored

This is war.

>> An employer can do whatever it wants. Yes, it’s wrong, but they can do it. There is no recourse.

I think that’s reasonable, so long as it applies both ways. What if an employer decides to fire someone for supporting a leftist cause or saying something non-conservative? I imagine that all he11 would break loose and there would be a civil rights lawsuit or something similar.

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