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He did nothing wrong.

He did several things wrong, and simply _stating_ that he did not does not make it true.

He did nothing wrong, and simply _stating_ that he did does not make it true.

Saw an interview that he now has his GF filter stuff he writes. Why do people that think he did nothing wrong think he now does this?

Obviously he did. Weird that is not obvious. But Google does not need a reason.

BTW, the fact that a former Google engineer is sitting at home unemployed would suggest he did do something wrong.

I think Damore's firing was more due to

1. The memo being leaked.

2. After being leaked, misrepresentations and even outright falsehoods about the memo being promulgated online.

Remember, the memo was being circulated within google for a month before his firing. This suggests that Google did not see the need to take punitive action against Damore due to the memo, but rather that it was the reception of the memo by the media that made Google fire him. Anecdotally speaking, most of the people I've encountered that read the full memo (as opposed to articles about the memo) think it wasn't worthy of firing.

I don't need to work at Google to know that circulating a memo at work about how your female coworkers are less qualified because of genetic factors is a stupid idea.

This statement was never made in the memo. The notion that it was stems largely due to point #2 in my comment above.

Because Google unjustly firing somebody is obviously impossible.

Google is a US company. In the US when someone does what Damore did you get fired. It is just how it works. It might not be fair.

It is also why Damore is at home unemployed. Nobody would hire him.

I think part of the confusion on this matter is employment is very different in the US versus many other parts of the world.

In the US and CA you can be fired for farting in a meeting.

We'll see if the courts agree with you.

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