Fired Over Free Speech?
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From the Center
Google's firing of memo writer strikes nerve in Silicon Valley
A Silicon Valley culture war pitting liberal-leaning tech firms against a small conservative cohort took on new intensity on Tuesday after Google fired a male engineer for a memo that decried the company's commitment to hiring women.
From the Left
Google Was Right to Fire the Memo Writer
That his sexist manifesto even gained traction at the company suggests its workplace culture has a long way to go. On Saturday, Motherboard reported that an anti-diversity manifesto penned by James Damore, a software engineer at Google, had gone “internally viral” at the company—and then, after Gizmodo obtained and published the 10-page document, it went viral-viral. The screed aired its author’s qualms with diversity and inclusion initiatives at Google, programs he deemed a waste of time because women are inherently less suited for technical roles than men. Or as he...
From the Right
Lena Dunham and Google Demonstrate Why Our Free Speech Culture Is Slipping Away
Progressive corporations enforce an ideological monoculture. Dissent and get fired.
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