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His presentation and the way he is representing himself appears to have hit an interesting cultural middle ground. He clearly has the alt right supporting him,
by wonderwonder 9y ago
His presentation and the way he is representing himself appears to have hit an interesting cultural middle ground. He clearly has the alt right supporting him, but he also has scientists and professors from prestigious and relatively liberal colleges publicly supporting the science of his argument. Even commentators on NPR and the Times are supporting him and blaming google.
He does not come across as vengeful, just disappointed, appearing to have just genuinely wanted to have a conversation about what he say as flaw/injustice in the way Google approached hiring.
He is well spoken for the most part and decent looking, that in itself will give this story legs and the media will want to have him on.
Google really made a mistake in their approach to this. I believe that if they had just spoken to him and heard him out in the beginning after he submitted his memo to their diversity department this never would have happened. As another poster said, they could even have just paid him off and have had him sign an NDA to go away.
This is a monumental failure of PR on Googles part.
- dguaraglia 9y agoA monumental failure of PR would've been Google getting sued for gender discrimination if this guy was ever put in charge of a mixed-gender team and someone in the team thought they were being put at a disadvantage. This guy clearly wanted to stir controversy, that's why the memo kept doing the rounds (he says he submitted it to several diversity groups inside of google himself.) I doubt he would've put up with having a "sensible discussion" with Google HR and let it go.
- throwaway12124 9y agoGoogle could easily have blacklisted him from any future management positions. This would have been essentially cost-free to them.
- unityByFreedom 9y agoAnd employee evaluations? Everyone takes part in those.
- throwaway12124 9y agoSure. Again, costs nothing.
- unityByFreedom 9y agoHmm, I have a different understanding of "costs nothing" and what is "easy" in this context. It would've been a lot of work for HR to deal with this internally. As it is, it is also a lot of work for them to deal with anyway. In the long run, it's anyone's guess. Companies set and enforce their values how they please.
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- dguaraglia 9y agoHave you ever worked at Google? No? Then maybe you shouldn't give your opinion on how much it could've costed for HR to cover this fuck up. Just my 2c.
- dguaraglia 9y agoI love how my every comment relating to Damore gets downvoted to crap by randoms. I guess the alt-right idiots are brigading HN to push their agenda now. But then, they talk about being "repressed" by the "liberals." Bunch of whiners, really.