I had it on good authority that Anita Sarkeesian was going to purge creativity from gaming, and that Donald Trump would keep the liberals from neutering my favorite pass time. I have literally no idea how that could have backfired on me. All I wanted was ethics in games journalism, I swear. Scout’s honor.

I’m not expecting anything even remotely sensible.

I’m expecting right wing talking points, arguments that we put to bed back in the 90s, and for Trump to do nothing but spout completely nonsensical, irrelevant bullshit the entire time.

50 years ago with that mentality and the LGBTQ movement would have never happened.

but the action was spreading literal terrorist propaganda.

Nazis banned unpopular speech, too.

Actions that are expression of speech. It’s the same as speech. Publishing your views is clearly an act, but it’s also an expression. You’re saying that it’s fine to have unpopular opinions as long as you don’t act to make them public. That’s crazy.

So you’re appauding a country that’s a historic beacon of individual liberty for their oppressive speech laws?

I agree. The last thing we want is freedom of speech or to understand the true horror of what islam is doing to innocent people by violence and intimidation. Three cheers for ignorance is bliss!

Who’s next to face jail for wrong opinions? Someone you like? Will you cheer that?

Am I missing something (article got repetitive and is way long for a simple point) or does this article read like Google is trying (but failing) to apply rules equally? Guy got fired for talking against women and minorities and another got reprimanded for indicating favoritism towards women and minorities. Seems…

“White boys (not only white boys, but especially) are taught not just that they’re entitled to a perfect female partner/servant in the way Bancroft describes, but also that they’re entitled to high status because of their maleness and whiteness; that being white and male are precious gifts that no one can ever take…

Headline is misleading. Google fired employees for violating company policy by creating a hostile work environment. No employees were fired for talking about diversity.

Welcome to the workplace you created snowflakes. You pushed to have Damore fired for expressing nothing but conservative opinions based on cited scientific studies. This is the workplace you wanted, it goes both ways.

After firing Damore for publishing his views, I’m not sure why other employees thought they would be protected when publishing their own views... The reality is that they made it easier for Google to defend their actions against Damore to the Labor Board by demonstrating that they followed the same procedure…

But he’s a bad perrrrrrssssoooooonnnnn and I’m a vicccccttttiiiiiimmmm

And this is why people were fools for not defending Damore, even if they disagreed with him. Expressing opinions that someone will take offense to, will now get you fired. And there is always someone there to take offense.