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The Google Firing: A Disturbance in the Force
Apparently a quite healthy dose of the Silicon Valley tech workforce believes that James Damore, the software engineer fired by Google, shouldn’t have been. It seems that this is a story that won’t go away and it continues to generate quite a lively debate online, in the media and presumably in breakrooms and watering holes in and beyond Silicon Valley.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether stridently left-of-center corporations like Google, Facebook, Apple, and others will tamp down their active Social Justice Warrior agendas, initiatives or pronouncements; and whether some of the greater workforce will begin to challenge some of the notions pushed by their respective human resource departments of implicit/unconscious bias, bigotry, misogyny, racism, and oppression that are considered the predominant reasons for lack of gender, race, or ethnic equity across disciplines in these companies.
