No matter how you feel about what the engineer said, today is a dark day for freedom of speech and freedom of thought. And before you reply saying that people

No matter how you feel about what the engineer said, today is a dark day for freedom of speech and freedom of thought. And before you reply saying that people don't have a constitutional right to freedom of speech at work, consider that the engineer wouldn't have been fired if he had written a memo extolling Google's diversity practices. He wasn't fired because because he was speaking his mind, he was fired because he said something that some people didn't agree with.