It's damage if it drives good engineers out of the company. By firing him the company is attempting to reduce the damage by indicating that this memo does not represent Google nor is it even under discussion.

Yeah, I heard he eats babies by the "progressive media" as well.

Maybe I should believe that too, and be completely ignorant about the contents of the actual document....

<insert rage, anger, mad flailing of arms>

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