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James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The author of the controversial memo that upended Google in August is suing the company, alleging that white, male conservatives are systematically discriminated against by Google. James Damore was fired as an engineer after a manifesto questioning the benefits of diversity programs was widely passed around the company. In a new lawsuit, he and another fired engineer claim that "employees who expressed views deviating from the majority view at Google on political subjects raised in the workplace and relevant to Google's employment policies and its business, such as 'diversity' hiring policies, 'bias sensitivity,' or 'social justice,' were/are singled out, mistreated, and systematically punished and terminated from Google, in violation of their legal rights."
Look out there, Mr., because President Oprah is coming for you.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
It's a bout time that an ignorant aggrieved white person claim reverse racism as in a thinly veiled white supremacist campaign to further discriminate against and harm minorities.
I agree with President Trump who has committed multiple felonies in his treasonous collusion with Russia's attack on our country, yet walks free and is continuing his crime spree.
As he and Jeff Sessions continue the age of Jim Crow / Mass Incarceration of minorities we should all be saying "White people are the true victims of the racism that our society subjects minorities to."
From the suit: "employees who expressed views deviating from the majority view at Google on political subjects raised in the workplace and relevant to Google's employment policies and its business, such as 'diversity' hiring policies, 'bias sensitivity,' or 'social justice,' were/are singled out, mistreated, and systematically punished and terminated from Google, in violation of their legal rights." So, Google has internal policies to, say, promote "diversity" and this a-hole doesn't like it, raises a big stink causing huge PR problems for Google just so he can claim his SJW cred and we're supposed to feel sorry for him? No. Any employees of mine who went around bad-mouthing my company would find themselves out of a job pretty god-damned quickly. And, NO - there is no law preventing an employer from firing someone for being an asshole.
Not employing someone who passes around sexist memos under some guise of "bettering the workplace" doesn't mean they single you out. And not being sexist or being pro-diversity are not political positions. It just so happens that the sexist, racist, and otherwise negatively prejudiced people tend to be conservative. As you should always do when making a statement like that, remember: Correlation does not equal Causation.
Considering Republicans tend to shit on anything that doesn't directly improve the status of white men, this sounds about right.
I suspect you have the causal chain backwards.
The Republican Party's southern strategy consisted of embracing racism and bigotry in order to gain political power. The Democratic Party's position during this time was to *shed* its Dixiecrat racist wing by supporting civil rights.
Posit, for just one moment, that "protected class" actually exists for a non-partisan reason. I know, wild! Then you have one party which, since the 70s, has embraced racism and bigotry as a political strategy to gain votes. And another that has embraced civil rights and using the government to protect people from racism and bigotry.
Now, suppose you regulary experience racism and bigotry; might it change how you vote? The party that talks about neo-nazis as having good points and calls black people respectively protesting traitors? Or the one that, at least nominally, supports civil rights and is against racism and biotry and treats it as a real problem?
Let's see if the courts are as willing as social media platforms to allow racism and discrimination as long as it's against the "right" people.
Social media platforms are privately owned spaces. As such, they are allowed to discriminate against anyone for any reason. If you do not like how they discriminate then you can build your own platform and discriminate against people you don't like. Alternatively, you can discriminate against nobody and have an entire platform that is swamped by spammers, the most reviled and discriminated against class in existence.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
SJWs are nothing but liers and militant jackbooted leftists. They are so happy to take the government boot to your neck when it is something *they* agree with. lets see if they learned the danger of being statists when other "theys" take the government boot to *their* thoat. didnt think this out, did you?
INB4 "Party swap of 1960 something!". You know, the thing that never happened but that democrats try to push as true.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
In case you are wondering, "Who is this cuck James Damore?" here he is, pictured with two normal-sized men, for scale:
https://www.dreuz.info/wp-cont...
Damore denies allegations made by the two men in the photograph that it was taken shortly after they spitroasted him in a Google break room.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Who, contrary to what many would have us believe, are the real snowflakes.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Google doesn't discriminate against conservative white men. It discriminates against people who create a hostile work environment by sending around racist screeds, regardless of their color, gender, or ideology. This will be laughed out of court.
Yes it is still a racist screed even if it's scientific racism and regardless of how scientifically correct or incorrect it was. We've been through this.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Trump's insistence that the White Supremacist's were damn fine folks whose statues to traitors are more important than something like disaater relief for Puerto Rico.
Except none of this happened, so your entire premise is wrong.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
They asked for comments, not "put out a memo that makes your job (which involved evaluating other employees) untenable".
Regardless of what you think of his views, there is no denying that it made his job impossible because any judgement he made subsequently would be questioned in the light of those comments.
Also, "conservative views" are not a protected class. Political views are a choice, and he won't get very far claiming discrimination. It will be interesting to see what evidence he has for discrimination against white and male staff, or if he is claiming that it's only white&male&conservative in which case he has no case.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Leak internal company documents to the media to push your SJW agenda? Not a problem!
Seems to have been a problem for Damore. If that memo had just been to HR, or had been anonymous he would have been fine. Instead he put his name on it and made it public, to push his agenda.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
A protected class includes any race and any gender. I know it really burns the snowflakes' hearts when they can't legally discriminate against white men.
Funny thing about the term "snowflake". It was coined by that book/movie Fight Club, where the founder of the club tells the white male snowflakes that they are not special. The whole thing is about how white guys are being screwed by capitalism, with shitty jobs and unfulfilling lives.
Frustratingly a lot of white guys seem to be directing their anger at women and minorities now, when it's still capitalism that is screwing them.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
From the memo:
"For example currently those trying to work extra hours or take extra stress will inevitably get ahead and if we try to change that too much, it may have disastrous consequences."
It doesn't sound like he is advocating better work/life balance.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I suspect that it will be a short case. The plaintiff will claim that he was discriminated against by Google for being conservative, and they will roll out the HR termination paperwork documenting how he was abusing other employees because they weren't white. Google is going to fire anyone who is doing that, regardless of their color or gender because they will be sued by victims of said abuse if they don't. They have a really good motive to insure equality and a harassment workplace - mainly an army of drooling tort lawyers eyeing their bank account totals.
There probably are occasional (but rare) instances of straight white conservative men being discriminated against, but I don't think this is it. All this guy is going to do is insure that he never gets hired again, because what employer is going to hire someone with a history of suing their employers?
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
You're right. It didn't go on quite long enough to be a manifesto. It was more of an uninformed rant.
You're a liar, because his "uninformed rant" was sourced.
You're an idiot, just like James Damore, who did not understand the papers he was citing, and therefore got the science wrong. You don't get any points for misusing science. The authors of some of the papers he cited felt strongly enough about it that they came out and said that he got it wrong, so we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is mis-citing papers. You are ignoring this to make your hero seem intelligent and correct, when he is neither.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"