Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him James Damore defends his controversial memo on Bloomberg TV
From Bloomberg
The former Google engineer, whose controversial memo has triggered a nationwide debate on gender differences and diversity efforts in technology, defended his views in an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg Television, saying company executives are smearing him in its wake.Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/fired-google-engineer-says-company-execs-shamed-and-smeared-himJames Damore, who until Monday worked as an engineer on video and image search at Alphabet Inc.’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, said he initially shared the 3,300-word memo internally a month ago. But it was only after the memo went viral that company leaders banded together to make him an outcast, he said on Bloomberg TV.
When he initially circulated the memo, “no one high up ever came to me and said, ‘No, don't do this,’ even though there were many people who looked at it,” Damore said. “It was only after it got viral that upper management started shaming me and eventually firing me.”
The memo, which was leaked to the public over the weekend, argues that conservative viewpoints are suppressed at Google and that biological differences between men and women explain in part why so few women work in software engineering. Even if someone in Google management had agreed with some of the arguments put forth in his piece, they wouldn’t have felt safe speaking up, he said.
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Strange diversity at Google where only their idea is right. An excellent way to stifle debate! You don't have to agree with everybody, which is the tolerant way to go, but to fire the one that you disagree with is to defeat the very cause that you promote. If we all speak the same thing because of threats hanging over our heads, we have already lost our freedom.
You play with fire and you will get burned eventually. He had to know how this was going to play out...
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