So, the fired Google engineer immediately went crying to Breitbart

[suffragette]

Telling, very telling.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-employee-fired-diversity-row-considers-legal-action-james-damore

Damore has now said he would “likely be pursuing legal action”.

“I have a right to express my concerns about the terms and conditions of my working environment and to bring up potentially illegal behaviour, which is what my document does,” he said in an email reported by the New York Times.

In a further email to the rightwing website Breitbart, he reportedly said: “They just fired me for ‘perpetuating gender stereotypes’.”

[B2G]

1. He also responded to the NYT email

I would imagine he's being contacted by every news outlet in the country.

[Kingofalldems]

11. Do you know they contacted him?

Let's see evidence.

[B2G]

13. How do you know they didn't?

He may have, he might have been responding. It just makes sense to me that he's probably being flooded with requests for statements right now. Is that a reach?

[Kingofalldems]

15. I know if Breitbart contacted me I wouldn't respond.

They are fake news. Yet he contacted them either directly or in response. Telling don't you think?

[B2G]

17. Not particularly.

He also emailed the NYT. What conclusions are to be drawn from that?

[Kingofalldems]

18. That he emailed an actual news organization.

[Caliman73]

2. California is an "at will" employment state. Thanks Republicans

That means that unless there is a specific written agreement between the employee and the company (Union contract or such), then the employer can fire the employee for any reason at all.

Looks like he is trying to paint himself as a whistle blower, except that he was arguing in the same direction that is part of Google's current problems with the State and Feds. Google is being looked into for discriminatory hiring practices against women and people of color. This guy appeared to be agreeing with Google's actual hiring practices while criticizing their stance on diversity in tech.

[Phoenix61]

3. Proof that being an engineer doesn't mean

you can't still be a complete dumbass.

[Warpy]

9. There are a lot of one dimensional people out there

who range from adequate to brilliant in their various, narrow fields. Once they stick a toe outside those fields, you are left hoping they have a keeper somewhere to help them stay out of serious trouble.

I can't despise this dumbass, I know how limited he is. I just with there weren't so many others just like him, making women working around him miserable.

[Ninsianna]

16. Was proof required?

With the men sometimes the misogyny is almost a given, they can't handle the competition and it makes them whiny.

*not all male engineers, doctors etc. They're usually fine if they think they're better than their female fellows, but the second they find out different, out comes the ugly.

[Willie Pep]

20. My buddy's sister was run out of her medical group due to sexism.

She is a doctor and according to her there is definitely a kind of "bro" culture among some male doctors.

[Ninsianna]

21. Yikes.

I was bodily shoved out of the way during an anatomy class. Like some guy pushed me away from the dissection table with his girth. Deliberately. Not that he was going to deign to pick a scalpel or anything but he was going to ensure I couldn't see what the prof was showing us.

[RogerM]

4. James Damore, the Google employee fired for his anti-diversity manifesto, is (almost certainly) not

James Damore, the Google employee fired for his anti-diversity manifesto, is (almost certainly) not a victim of a free-speech violation

The First Amendment protects Americans' free-speech rights from being restricted by the government, not their employer.
You don't have a right to use your company's computer system to publish your speech.
"Freedom of speech is the right to freely express an opinion. It is most assuredly not the right to express an opinion with freedom from the consequences."
Even California's pro-worker rules don't appear to protect James Damore, the Google employee who annoyed his colleagues with an anti-diversity manifesto.

http://www.businessinsider.com/james-damore-google-anti-diversity-manifesto-free-speech-2017-8

[PSPS]

6. That's a frequent error

The first amendment, as you explain, involves only the actions of the government hindering one's utterances. It has nothing at all to do with anything beyond that. Many people erroneously believe that the first amendment somehow inhibits the ability of a private individual or company, such as facebook, youtube, etc., to control what they contain. It doesn't. If Zuckerberg and his ilk had any decency at all, they wouldn't carry the snuff and hate material they do. But, as far as they're concerned, all that matters is that they can make a profit off it.

[dalton99a]

8. +1

He'd be laughed out of court

[uponit7771]

14. This guy sounds pretty damn stupid to be an engineer

[Gothmog]

5. This guy is an idiot

[ismnotwasm]

7. He's a MRA-like idiot

Thinks evolutionary psychology makes up for bigoted sexism

[LanternWaste]

10. His memo reads like the family-friendly version of Elliot Rodger's manifesto.

His memo reads like the family-friendly version of Elliot Rodger's manifesto, relies on that same hand-me-down evo-psych-o'babble, and is predicated on the same lack of objective, peer-reviewed sources to support his, erm, premise.

[CincyDem]

12. Freedom of speech is not the same as freedom from consequences of speech. n/t

[Starry Messenger]

19. He also lied on his resume

Speaking of mediocrity being promoted above its level.

"On his LinkedIn profile, Damore lists a “PhD, Systems Biology” from Harvard in 2013. However, a representative from Harvard tells WIRED that Damore did not complete a PhD. He completed a master’s degree in systems biology in 2013."

https://www.wired.com/story/james-damore-author-google-memo-might-sue/

His lawsuit will be laughed out of court.

[suffragette]

22. Great find, Starry. Hmm, something about this makes me wonder if he was hoping to file

A lawsuit. And did this to provoke the actions.

What an ass.

[smirkymonkey]

23. What a whiny, pathetic little broflake!

Whaaaaaah! They won't let me be a sexist ass! It's all THEIR fault!