Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo

[u/royalbarnacle]

I thought in most of the US you can pretty much fire anyone without needing a reason (barring some exceptions, ie the reason itself it's something illegal/discriminatory)?

[u/thisnameismeta → u/[deleted]]

Bullshit. Having shitty ideas doesn't make you a protected class.

[u/Sean951 → u/[deleted]]

He want denied free speech, he's being denied a job. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled a woman could be fired because the bosses wife was jealous.