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Were you not here when the James Damore debacle happened? And he was hardly expressing a political PoV, just trying to marshall some data on good faith to respo

• patmorgan23 6y ago
  And he advocated for policies that would tangibly make the workplace better and more equal like allowing for flex days and for employees to go part time during maturity/paternity leave.
• rootusrootus 6y ago
  The Google engineer, right? I try not to read too much into company politics. Even at a relatively large company it can get very personal. AFAIK he wasn't really deplatformed anyway, he was fired. It seems that the NLRB decided the firing was proper. That's the sum total of my knowledge, and at first glance I don't think it's a good comparison with the larger discussion about deplatforming on public services.
  • manfredo 6y ago
    I'd consider getting fired a much more serious form of ostracism than deplatforming. Getting banned from Twitter doesn't affect your ability to pay rent. I personally put the blame for his firing more on the blatantly distorted and sometimes even outright counterfactual coverage of his message. The number of mainstream and well respected outlets that falsely claimed he wrote that women are biologically less capable engineers, rather than that they lower predilection to enter the field , was disturbing. After his memo Google announced that they wouldn't set quotas for groups beyond the demographic's representation in the field. The people I know at Google felt that the reaction was overblown.