patronizing act of firing him to “protect” women
I don’t know where this idea comes from.
Not at all, Google fired him to protect ITSELF from women. This guy became a liability, every woman at Google who is unhappy with his review can bring up a lawsuit quoting his memo.
Say, Mike writes on his FB page “I think it’s ok to have sex with a woman if she’s dead drunk”. Then Sarah comes forward and says she’s been raped by Mike at a party. With his note her case is much stronger, even if she’s lying. (So, kick him out from your party before anybody complains)
I sure as hell wish we could have found out
He doesn’t even have a GitHub account.
Google already had failed a few times before the situation exploded. This guy worked for the company for the past 4 years, wouldn’t anybody know his ideas to talk to him? Their “diversity training” sounds like a joke. Should they figure out biases BEFORE providing anti-bias training? Otherwise, it’s like giving a lecture about the Earth interior structure to a bunch of people who think it’s bs because the Earth is flat anyway.
And before that, it looks like his Science education also failed the guy.
