Yeah, they brought attention to their political bias and poor understanding of psychology, while giving this young man a platform. He will doubtlessly be in a better place as a result and more ideological gunk is being brought to light.

He spoke negatively about his own company and brought up a controversial subject. Google didn't fire him because of political bias or because they don't understand psychology, they fired him because people like that aren't good for making money.

[quote]He spoke negatively about his own company[/quote] He critiqued a project they had started running, and the memo was intended to remain internal. I don't know about you, but whenever I've operated in a professional environment, the best companies ask for feedback. A well-sourced memo documenting issues with a current program usually only ever gets the middle-manager that made it butthurt. Literally everyone else finds it valuable. [quote] and brought up a controversial subject.[/quote] He didn't bring it up. He was forced to go to the "Diversity summit". They wanted to shove information down everyone's throat, but Damore had some objections that were either ignored, or he was shamed for even asking about. Prior to circulating the memo, he had reached to his leadrship and nobody would respond. [quote]Google didn't fire him because of political bias or because they don't understand psychology,[/quote] So I guess the CEO saying that he was "perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes" [quote]they fired him because people like that aren't good for making money.[/quote] You got any case studies that people attempting to improve a company are bad for business? Damore was a model employee, and he was going above and beyond and put his neck on the line in an attempt to help improve the company for everyone. Also, if you want to see how much money a company can make by forcing "diversity" onto everything, check how Marvel comics are doing these days. Their whole, "We don't care what our fans think, they are just racist, sexist, misogynists" is really doing gangbusters for their bottom line.

I would agree with everything you just said if the memo didn't get out

More people hearing the truth doesn't change the truth. If a company is damaged by someone telling the truth, then i choose to blame the company for lying (or engaging in deceptive practices) and not the person speaking the truth.

He should have stuck to engineering. On the bright side, perhaps Google will hire a female engineer as his replacement to help disprove his silly assertions.