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You should read the Breitbart interviews then. There are screenshots of Googlers on internal G+ saying they maintain blacklists of people they won't work with for political reasons, or sometimes, even just because someone spoke up and said "hey, blacklisting your colleagues isn't a good idea".


I'm guessing most are probably women (or close allies) who basically don't want to work with people like Damore.

My kids are half-Chinese. If one of my coworkers said "these half-breed children are polluting our race", I'm pretty sure I'd shy away from working with them. Damore basically implied that Google lowers the bar for female engineers (which it does not), and therefore immediately cast doubt on the quality and merit of his female coworkers.

If I was a woman, I might decide I don't want to work with someone who feels I'm not really supposed to be there.


They were men, actually. Again, rather than speculate, I suggest you get over your fear of Breitbart and just go read the interviews.

Damore didn't say or imply what you're claiming either. I wonder how carefully you read what he wrote, if at all. He talked about interest at the population level. He didn't claim female Googlers weren't as good as male Googlers. That was a strawman thrown about by people who couldn't argue with his actual points and so preferred to argue with something else.

So - lots of assumptions on your part, all wrong. Not the type of data driven analysis I remember Google exalting, back in the day.




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