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| James Damore Sues Google for Discriminating Against White Men |
| 2018-01-09 |
| h/t Instapundit [PJMedia] James Damore, the Google engineer who was fired after arguing that the gender gap in tech may be partially explained by sex differences among men and women, just filed a class-action lawsuit against Google in the Santa Clara, Calif., Superior Court. Damore came to fame after he wrote the now-infamous "Google Manifesto," where he pointed out that "differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech." Despite being attacked as sexist by many left-wingers, many academics and researchers also came to his defense, including Toronto-based sex researcher Dr. Debra Soh and Geoffrey Miller, a evolutionary psychology professor at the University of New Mexico. Filed Monday morning, the class-action lawsuit argues that Google discriminates against white conservative men on the basis of their "male gender" and "Caucasian race," further alleging that there is "open hostility for conservative thought" in the Google workplace. Damore is joined by another former Google engineer named David Gudeman, who faced "wrongful termination" in 2016 after three years as a software engineer. Both are represented by the Dhillon Law Group. The lawsuit also alleges that Google employees were awarded bonuses for arguing against Damore’s views. In one example of this, a female employee was awarded a bonus for speaking out against the "wretched hive of scum and villainy" allegedly represented by Damore’s memo. Lets hope it's the first, but not the last, of such actions - affirmative action is an abomination |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Some of the spark plug changes currently approach surgery. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-01-09 14:20 |
| #3 some rather sobering Affirmative Action implications. Certainly some of our people and institutions could use a good sobering upside the head. In any case, discovery should be fun. Personally, I think the man has a point. Most women don't give a poot about techy things like math, machines, computers or programming. The ones who do tend to be quite good at it, from my experience. You see a similar distribution but in the other direction in healthcare. When me Mum was in the hospital awhile back, most of the nurses were gals, but there were a surprising number of guys. I was impressed by their compassion and nursing skills. Me, I'd rather change spark plugs. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-01-09 11:44 |
| #2 If he wins, this could (I say again could) have some rather sobering Affirmative Action implications. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-09 10:35 |
| #1 I hope he wins $100 million. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-01-09 10:26 |