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" who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering"

This is not what he argued as far as I can remember.

Heraclitusstudent says

Anyone think this has a chance against Google?

If it goes in front of a jury it might.

He definitely has a chance. His firing was complete SJW BS. I hope he makes tens of millions of dollars in damages.

anon_45790 says

This is not what he argued as far as I can remember.

Yup, Yahoo has SJW'd their content again.

What he actually said was that Women find interest and motivation in different things, so they approach problem solving differently, and cited not ONE but TWO psychology, peer reviewed, studies to back up his point.

anon_45790 says

" who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering"

This is not what he argued as far as I can remember.

This is also not what I heard him say on Bloomberg.

Persecution is good. It is easier to maintain a persecution complex with occasional de facto persecution.

I reread the memo again. As far as I can tell, this may be the one triggering sentence in the memo that got him in trouble:
I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
He would have been better off saying preferences and personality traits.

I think there is a chance

anon_3e01a says

the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes

Does anyone doubt that this is factually correct?

There is plenty of science to back up varying distribution of abilities between the genders. To take a trivial example, men can lift greater weights than women on average. This is not open to scientific debate, only to ideological distortions.

The typical distortion is to misrepresent the argument as saying that all men can lift greater weights than all women. Damore was careful to point out exactly this kind of misrepresentation as a near-certain response to even the slightest questioning the SJW Koran.

I'm a big Jordan Peterson fan boi, so I'm kinda shocked to take the counter argument here.
Fearless leader, are you saying lifting weights explains the [un]equal representation of women in tech and leadership? The rest of the memo is fairly airtight, but you can drive a truck through abilities. Abilities could be taken as a pejorative term. Not sure why I didn't notice it when the memo came out originally. From what I can tell, he did a good job footnoting the preferences part, so maybe it comes down to a poor word choice.