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You have now changed the reason you're claiming she was fired, first it was asking about people's identities now it's that she wanted people to stop working. This leads me to believe that perhaps you reached your conclusion first, and are trying to find evidence to support your preferred result rather than the other way.

But even now your claims are at best only half true, reading the email she says people should stop working on DEI things specifically, as they can't be successful without executive sponsorship and execs only pay lip service. Is that criticism wrong?

But don't let truth get in the way of a good story, right?

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Nope, that falls under:

> She had a reputation for accusing her colleagues of bigotry and other toxic behavior.

She's not accusing an colleagues of bigotry, she's stating leadership doesn't support diversity initiatives enough and this leads to rank and file employees wasting their time. How is that toxic behavior?

And again, what does any of that have to do with a review panel? That's what you claimed she was fired for, the review panel.

Did you read her email? She accused her colleagues of "silencing marginalized voices", among other things. That's an accusation of bigotry.

It really isn't. If you're assuming that the only reason one might do a bad thing is because they are a bad person, then sort of maybe, but even then, bigotry is pretty specific and one can silence marginalized people for all kinds of reasons that aren't bigotry (naivete, for example)

I have no problem with this person who probably had legitimate issues with Google but "You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognised by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organisations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company" is a pretty clear and cut accusation of bigotry to me.

How exactly would you fail to acknowledge somebody's humanity thanks to "naivete"? I'm making the presumably safe assumption that she is not a sentient piece of lint.

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