Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech

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4. Totally misleading article.

Questioning the efficacy of a diversity policy is important if the diversity policy is to function correctly. It is also not the same as "questioning women in tech."

Saying, "[Damon] argued that the low number of women in technical positions was a result of biological differences instead of discrimination," is a blatant mischaracterization because it implies that he sees the gender differences as ONLY biological, which is not true. He clearly acknowledges how bias could influence the disparity. He just doesn't accept that the disparity is explained by one cause.

The memo didn't rely on gender stereotypes, it relied on a vast body of research on gender. To suggest otherwise is ignorant at best and an outright lie at worst.

When we misrepresent views just because they contradict the ideology we believe, we are no better than the conservatives. This pattern of behavior is dangerous as well because it distracts us from people who actually hold sexist views against women. Damon is not a sexist. And his firing will only support the notions of right-wing conspiracy theorists.

It also makes it harder for us to have successful anti-Trump efforts. At this point I know so many typically Democratic-leaning voters who are disgusted by these kinds of falsehoods and become less and less likely, by the day, to identify as liberals or Democrats. So ask yourself how what happened her actually helps us enact liberal policy solutions to our nation's problems.