Quite refreshing to hear a European voice in this debate (not suggesting that she represents all Europeans -- but it definitely strikes a chord with me). She's

Quite refreshing to hear a European voice in this debate (not suggesting that she represents all Europeans -- but it definitely strikes a chord with me). She's wrong about one thing though: Damore was fired, basically, for making a well-meant, if amateurish, attempt at institutional design, ... , he was fired, in short, for thinking on his own. No, he was fired because Google is already neck-deep into being investigated by the DoL for gender pay discrimination [1] and they have a class action lawsuit coming up about the same issue [2]. He was fired for the same reason that they recently hired a chief diversity officer [3]. Believe me, at that point they would do almost anything to avoid those cases turning south (and what that would mean for the corporate public image), and giving voice to someone who has even the slightest doubt about diversity in the workplace is a big fat political No-Go. James Damore made the mistake of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, that's all. [1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pay-disparities-women-labor-department-lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa... [2]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-women-discrimination-class-action-lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-wo... [3]https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/29/google-hires-intels-former-head-of-diversity-as-vp-of-diversity/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/29/google-hires-intels-former...