Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Discrimination Against Conservatives, Whites AndMales

legalinsurrection ^ | January 8, 2018 | Kemberlee Kaye

[MarvinStinson]

Commenced by James Damore, Google employee terminated after release of internal memo on “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was reportedly fired for circulating a memo critical of the company’s diversity policies, filed a complaint alleging Google discriminates against conservatives, whites and men.

Buzzfeed reported Monday:

The author of a controversial memo that sparked debates about gender and diversity at Google sued his former employer on Monday, alleging that the company discriminates against politically conservative white men.

James Damore, who was fired in August for internally circulating a manifesto that argued Google’s gender pay gap was the result of genetic inferiority, said in a lawsuit filed in Santa Clara Superior Court that the search giant “singled out, mistreated, and systematically punished and terminated” employees that deviated from the company’s view on diversity. Damore and a second plaintiff, David Gudeman, another former Google engineer, are seeking class-action status for anyone that identifies as conservative, Caucasian, or male.

The men are being represented by Harmeet K. Dhillon, the Republican National Committee’s committeewoman for California.

“Google’s management goes to extreme — and illegal — lengths to encourage hiring managers to take protected categories such as race and/or gender into consideration as determinative hiring factors, to the detriment of Caucasian and male employees and potential employees at Google,” the suit reads.

Entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber“, the memo was largely misreported as suggesting a genetic deficiency among women in the tech field. The memo says no such thing. “We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism,” Damore argued.

Damore joined Ben Shapiro a few months ago to tell his side of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPGXkPVw93A

“Google’s open hostility for conservative thought is paired with invidious discrimination on the basis of race and gender, barred by law,” the complaint alleges. “Damore, Gudeman, and other class members were ostracized, belittled, and punished for their heterodox political views, and for the added sin of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians and/or males. This is the essence of discrimination—Google formed opinions about and then treated Plaintiffs not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in groups with assumed characteristics.”

Here’s the summary paragraph from the Complaint:

2. Plaintiffs bring this individual and class action on behalf of themselves and on behalf of a class and subclasses defined as all employees of Google discriminated against (i) due to their perceived conservative political views by Google in California at any time during the time period beginning four years prior to the filing of this Complaint through the date of trial in this action (“Political Class Period”); (ii) due to their male gender by Google in California at any time during the time period beginning one year prior to the filing of this Complaint through the date of trial in this action (“Gender Class Period”); and/or (iii) due to their Caucasian race by Google in California at any time during the time period beginning one year prior to the filing of this Complaint through the date of trial in this action (“Race Class Period”) (Political Class Period, Gender Class Period, and Race Class Period referred to collectively, as “Class Periods”). These violations also subject Google to claims for violation of California’s Business and Professions Code section 17200 et seq.1

The complaint in full (pdf.):

James Damore v Google – Class Action Complaint

https://legalinsurrection.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/James-Damore-v-Google-Class-Action-Complaint.pdf

[Seaplaner]

“Google’s open hostility for conservative thought is paired with invidious discrimination on the basis of race and gender, barred by law,” the complaint alleges. “Damore, Gudeman, and other class members were ostracized, belittled, and punished for their heterodox political views, and for the added sin of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians and/or males.

Perhaps "news" media, entertainment media, and many government offices and departments might be sued on similar bases, n'est ce pas?

[MarvinStinson]

Sounds good to me.

[TMD]

I’ve worked in a large Aerospace company for 35 years. It’s slowly being infected by millennials and being influenced by the Human Rights council. Last year my manager had to attend a mandatory “white, male manager” training class. I kid you not!! He said part of the training was talking about how the majority of successful engineers in the company are white, married, male, Christians and how they (the managers) should look outside of these traits when it comes to hiring. I like to say that I don’t like diversity, I like to work with people who are smart and work hard - as a result, diversity takes care of itself....I think I can only get away with this because I’m female....

[roadcat]

I think he should win a million dollars from the lawsuit. It’s open war against white males in hiring practices. If it were based on pure ability, okay, but we all know there is a PC trend of hiring quotas based on gender, race and liberal mindset. That PC trend needs to be eliminated, in favor of hiring based primarily on ability and experience for the job. I faced open hostility at work for putting up a US flag in my cubicle, while others had communist pictures up with no problem. Hypocrite liberals abound.

[PGR88]

Google has the deepest pockets of all. Hope he scores big

[Albion Wilde]

James Damore, who was fired in August for internally circulating a manifesto that argued Google’s gender pay gap was the result of genetic inferiority,

It's been awhile since I read it, but I highly doubt he used or even implied "inferiority"—differences are not determinants of human worth, but rather they are of human capability in various fields. If there are traditionally fewer women completing STEM education, but STEM companies require 50% women employees, discrimination against better qualified males is the implicit result, unless women are so superior that a handful of them is worth a boatload of men in STEM. Highly unlikely.

[Albion Wilde]

Students in STEM Fields by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

Key Points
Male students are about twice as likely as female students to enter STEM fields; among both men and women, about 40% of those who enter these fields complete a credential and about a quarter earn a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field. About twice as many Asian as white, black, or Hispanic students enter STEM fields. Completion rates are lowest for black and Hispanic students, with only 16% of those in each of these groups who enter STEM fields earning bachelor’s degrees in these fields, compared to about 30% of the Asian and white students who enter these fields.

Source:
Reproduced from Trends in Higher Education page of College Board web site

[TXnMA]

Perhaps "news" media, entertainment media, and many government offices and departments might be sued on similar bases, n'est ce pas?

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I submit that "Academia" -- from Pre-K to the most exclusive university -- belongs at the head of your list. Without the rancid brainwashing that is our "education system", the others would not have been so foully tainted.

[killermosquito]

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