> Hostility is, by its very nature, a violent attack on a person or group. Remember reading about how what Damore wrote was "violence". Wonder what those who s

> Hostility is, by its very nature, a violent attack on a person or group. Remember reading about how what Damore wrote was "violence". Wonder what those who suffered from physical violence such as rape think when "violence" is used in such a context... Then in general it seems like firing him was admitting defeat. Google could have responded by compiling a set of studies to disprove what they claimed were obviously wrong and misguided ideas. Surely they have enough people who know how to compile a research survey. At the same time I bet Damore knew that this was going to lead to termination. He forced their hand publicly and they responded as any beaurocracy would be expected. There was basically 0 chance they would have said "oh thanks for the research and suggestions we will review and redesign some of our policies after you've publicly shamed us". It seemed to them on the surface they won that battle but at the same time the admitted defeat too. It is a bit like someone responding to an argument where peer reviewed research is presented with "well, your mom is fat and you're stupid". That ends the argument, for sure, and the person saying it feels they've won the argument. But everyone else sees it as admitting defeat more or less. The more interesting thing I found was that some "news" outlets like Gizmodo, chose to publish the letter but omitted the research. That seems strange. If one didn't know any better, they might assume they secretly agreed with the points made and did everything they could to promote them further. Few things work as well as deliberate and obvious censorship to make people pay attention.