So it sounds like you agree with me that he lacked an understanding of how to behave in a workplace?

I agree only in a sense similar to how people in a wheelchair lack the capability to access public spaces in the same way as non-disabled people do.

It's funny how even in a highly logical technical community the conversations on certain topics are the same as you'd find elsewhere.

To be clear, your analogy is that this fellow lashing out at certain groups of his coworkers can be attributed to their mental disorder you've diagnosed and you've then decided that this is the same as a person in a wheelchair being unable to access certain areas? I'm understanding this correctly? You're sure this is an analogy you think is passably decent let alone one that can be be followed up with you mocking other people afterward...? What are we hoping to accomplish here?

> lashing out at certain groups of his coworkers

Please explain where he was "lashing out" and who those "certain groups of his coworkers" were. Try to be specific.

Ah! The old obtuseness defense. Fun.

You misspelled Socratic Method.

I wonder if you have any inkling of how you're demonstrating my point.

It's not about being politically correct, it's about not implying that your female coworkers don't deserve their jobs.

before someone says "He didn't do that, you obviously never read it", I did and I still believe it's a conclusion that he leads the reader to. Not sure it was intentional.

Also the whole "too neurotic for leadership" bit. WTF was he thinking with that.

I read Demores paper and I didn't get the impression that he thought that about female co workers. To me his main point seemed to be that women by number arnt as interested in tech as males are. On your second point it's easy to look back on the paper and pick at the way some of it comes across but I don't think he ever imagined it becoming the published and the political hot potato it became. Maybe he would have been more careful with the wording if he could have seen into the future, unfortunately we don't have that skill yet.

Totally agree. How in the world could you have Damore on a team with women after the memo is out and people know he wrote it?

I have never bought into this is some social political thing but rather just basic human decency. Never understood how the right wing got a hold of this and my only guess it was Damore or someone from the right wing that wanted this rather obvious HR issue as some social political issue. It is not in reality. Any company would have diciplined Damore including firing. A manager is responsible for everyone including the women.

Google expects people to work with people who openly hate white men. Just take a look at some of their twitter feeds. Damore expressed no such opinion of women he just has a broader explanation for under-representation in tech other than sexism.

Google is a for profit company. Damore obviously did not help that with his views of women and Google did as any company with a brain would do and get rid of him.

Why on Earth do you think a former Google engineer is sitting at home unemployed? You would never want him on a team that had to get something done.

There is so many reasons to fire him and it is California so Google did not even need a reason.

But the more interesting thing is how did the become a right wing thing? Who was able to pull that off and use this as something to gen up the right wing? Is it not a bit manipulative of the right wingers? Do they not see it?

A company with a brain hires a lawyer to look at the issue when an employee expresses concern that the company is breaking laws with their hiring practices. Firing someone who expresses those concerns makes the problem infinitely worse as we are seeing.

> Why on Earth do you think a former Google engineer is sitting at home unemployed?

Because he's busy - see the title of this post.