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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mc32 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:53AM (#14954831)
Right but IIRC, they fired her for perf issues, she retaliated with harassment or discrimination.

Here they fired him not for perf (defensible) but for difference in opinion (maybe defensible but icky) not anything bad he did. I think he stands a better chance than Pao's retaliatory suit.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by DanBC on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:30AM (#14955017)
> Here they fired him not for perf (defensible) but for difference in opinion (maybe defensible but icky) not anything bad he did.

He wrote the manifesto and distributed it within the workplace. That's absolutely an action he took at work, that's a thing he did.

See also the Shoe Rebellion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12022280

You don't have freedom of speech at work. Apparently in the US that's not a freedom of speech issue until the Government says you can't say certain things at work.

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