I'm not following your second perspective. If I read you comment correctly, your second perspective would be "Gebru and Mitchell were fired with good cause, bu

I'm not following your second perspective. If I read you comment correctly, your second perspective would be "Gebru and Mitchell were fired with good cause, but people are rushing to their defense only because they are members of a minority". If that's what you meant, I would counterargue: I haven't seen anything in this saga that implies anything of the sort. Simplified, it is my understanding that people either defend the firing claiming that Gebru and Mitchell acted in bad faith or object to it claiming that their only fault was speaking the truth back to Google (who hired them to do so).