Martita Meier
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Question, I’m recalling that it was *not* James who mass-blasted his doc (I refuse to call it a manifesto… it is really not that important) ☺ …anyway, I thought he only shared it within the diversity group, and an unknown person shared it with Google and the world?

This was the critical point for me. I have no issue with his doc inherently. My fields of study were anthro, bio, evolutionary psych… these are hearty conversations had amongst social scientists.

The way I understood the story was that he wrote this document based on the diversity tenants of Google, shared it with a group from that diversity team, and they didn’t have much to say about it. Later the document was leaked and exposed to the world… and then all of the sudden Google decided that it was a bad thing, and fired him forthwith.

All of this hinges on whether or not he shared the document with the entire company, or if it was shared on his behalf without his permission. If he’s the one that mass-shared the document then that was indeed inappropriate for the exact reasons you state. If he did not mass-share, then it is on Google.

Am I mistaken on the timeline?

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Digital strategist. Interested in politics, and social sciences. Studied psychological anthropology / evolutionary biology.