He was fired because he was in a hiring position and publicly expressed bigotry.
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What did he say that was bigoted?
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That women are consritutionally worse at programming. Its untrue, dumb and actionable.
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1/ Did you read the whole thing? I don't think he could have gone farther out of his way to say the opposite, that given any one particular
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I think this is a better take on the issue...https://www.economist.com/news/21726276-last-week-paper-said-alphabets-boss-should-write-detailed-ringing-rebuttal …
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A really terrible article that ignores science
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And makes false statements about the content of the memo.
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Great article by Weekly Standard, but what strange times we live in that they are standing up for science and not Nature & Scientific Am!!
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Still not clear whether innate sex differences account for 20:80 split in Google SWE. Correlation is not causation.
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I agree that it's not clear. But it's going to get any clearer if we ignore (half) the science!
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*not. It's NOT going to get any clearer if we ignore (half) the science.
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The “tyranny of opinion” of the majority has the same effect as censorship enforced by law.
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When everyone lives “under the eye of a hostile and dreaded censorship” by their fellow citizens, there will be no free inquiry.
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I've worked in companies for > 40 years. If a person's speech is in opposition to company culture, he shud be fired. Not a free speech issue
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No company should only listen to one side. Especially one that can censor others.
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He shud be able to offer his opinion to management, but if he publicizes opinions that damage the company, they have the right to fire him.
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He published internally, one of his colleagues leaked it.
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Google & other tech companies encourage women to aspire to tech roles. They don't want women to feel second class. Damore shud respect that.
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I don't want to feel 2nd class. That's a pretty open ended argument.
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