You circulate anything which can be reasonably described as a “manifesto” criticizing your company’s hiring practices, and you’re not already in a senior leadership position or a recognized expert on the subject, you’ve begun a countdown which will end with your removal from the building and termination as an…

I think google was probably making the decision based on “do we want to get sued for wrongful termination by one employee, or do we want to get sued for a hostile work environment by every single one of our female employees?”

To be fair, it wasn’t his job to figure out how to handle gender diversity in tech.

He was willfully creating a hostile work environment for everyone who he had singled out in that memo, and he is unrepentant about it. It’s pretty cut and dry, really.

I think regardless of the rightness or wrongness of his comments, if he had gone to his bosses directly instead of posting it to a semi-public forum, he might still have his job. Yes, in this context a system visible to thousands of employees counts as semi-public.

Anyone who sends a 10-page manifesto on ANY subject as an office-wide email should be fired.

How is following the law messy, exactly?

All of the people in this thread agree with you because they are men.

Fact is people can be fired for any reason (except reasons that fall under obvious discrimination based on race/ethnicity/sex/etc. and that clearly isn’t the case here), including reasons such as expressing assholic views. So yes, his opinion can be a fireable offense if the higher ups say so.

There is plenty of room for stupid on the internet, of course, but not inside a company where he’s expected to work with and manage the very people he verrrrry publicly called less-qualified for “biological” reasons.

this is where it gets messy. labor laws compelled Google to act when coworkers complained he had created a hostile work environment, and his intent in creating that environment is sort of not the point.

No one on the left disagrees there are differences between people on an individual level. The place we disagree is when it comes to population level differences in things like IQ— we generally say that the tests are biased. I mean, we know they’re biased. People aren’t getting smarter, yet we need to adjust for the…

The dude who wrote this screed in the first place can’t hold a discussion otherwise he wouldn’t trash people in secret. The people he knows know that they can’t talk to him without getting something like, “Blacks cause all the crime,” or “If we’d let the free market handle it, it’d regulate itself.” C’mon guy. You…

There’s no discourse in claiming that moral issues should be de-moralized, or that empathy should be de-emphasized. Amorality and lack of empathy are quite literally the hallmarks of sociopathy.