[Draken93]

Due to an high amount of work I have to do I was only able to skim through the memo.

It seams as if the memo was written in a good intention. What I took away from the text is that he mostly considers people different, not inferior, because of their gender. It would be dumb to completly disagree with that. I think rational and follow science, therefore I agree on some off his points. I disagree with the extend of his conclusions and imo he sometimes mixes up correlation and causality.

But those are all things one could discuss. He sounds like reasonable guy.

[concordDance]

Google considered that memo an unacceptable thing to post internally and fired him.

[Draken93]

Rereading the memo, I definetly missed some points earlier.

Things like:

- "We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism."

- Followed by him arguing that the attemp to reduce the gender gap (Which is imo clearly a result of sexism) is discriminating the poor white man.

- On Top the strange "Woman on average" part connected to "Once we acknowledge that not all differences are socially constructed or due to discrimination"

My view on the tone of the whole memo changed. One could interpret it, as a "white guy whining about people taking his century old priviledges away".

BUT: I would need to talk with him about it, to really know what his intention was. Again, ignoring his short reference to the IQ tests, I did not have the feeling that he was openly considering certain people inferior. I would still be open to talk to him.

If Google fired him, just for this memo and not because of a combination of other things he said and did, it would be exeggerated. And it would support at least his points on "alienating conservatives"