James Damore

James Damore is an engineer who circulated a memo saying, "We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism" - mirroring the viewpoint that forced a Harvard University president to resign several years ago. Google thereupon accused Damore of "advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace".

After being fired by Google, Damore wrote:

• I committed heresy against the Google creed by stating that not all disparities between men and women that we see in the world are the result of discriminatory treatment.

At least one university professor said that Damore's 10-page memo was scientifically accurate. The professor pointed out:

1. Neither the left nor the right gets diversity completely right
2. The social science evidence on implicit and explicit bias has been wildly oversold and is far weaker than most people seem to realize
3. Google has, perhaps unintentionally, created an authoritarian atmosphere that has stifled discussion of these issues by stigmatizing anyone who disagrees as a bigot and instituted authoritarian policies of reverse discrimination
4. The policies and atmosphere systematically ignore biological, cognitive, educational, and social science research on the nature and sources of individual and group differences.

Other supportive comments

Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge called it a

• good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech James Damore: "This Is Why I Was Fired By Google" - ZeroHedge

A pseudonymous poster wrote:

• James specifically posted it In response to a request by google for critical and controversial thoughts on equality in the workplace. James starts out by explaining that it is wrong to take the average of a group of people and assign that value to each individual, at no point does he say individual women or any other individual from a group can't do well. Instead it is a well reasoned and cited document. Later on it was backed by at least 6 experts in the fields of biology and psychology, citing scientifically accepted causes for differences beteeen groups of people. It outlines how cultural taboos create opportunity inequality by attempting to force outcome equality through sexist and racist bias. Because he was right, it inflamed SJW and the corporate monoculture so badly no one even read it before resorting to a strawman argument set aflame from the torches of seething angry internet warriors.

See also

• Larry Summers
• Differences between men and women
• Outcome inequality
• Virtue signaling