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0 pointsmanfredo8y ago0 comments

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.

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notfromhere8y ago

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.

manfredoOP8y ago

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

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