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Google forecast the move earlier today when its CEO Sundar Pichai said portions of the memo “violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” I’m going to write a longer piece about this, but this reaffirms a fundamental reality – key sectors of our economy are not only increasingly politicized, they’re increasingly radicalized.
Eric Schmidt has said that one of Google’s founding values was “freedom of expression.” In reality, you’re only free to toe the party line.
Google is a private company and has wide legal latitude to discipline its employees for their speech, but make no mistake — this is a direct assault on the American culture of free speech. It’s a sad fact that your economic opportunities depend not just on your skills, talents, and the way you treat employees or customers but also on your political opinions. Progressive corporate America is bifurcating economic opportunity, and that’s a very bad thing indeed.
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And they say that one of the company's founding values is "freedom of expression." What a joke. https://t.co/2UWUdQk4zl
— David French (@DavidAFrench) August 8, 2017
Guy writes memo complaining that @google is not inclusive of right-leaning political ideology. So they fired him.
They sure showed him. https://t.co/5kJamksbkO
— Ben (@BenHowe) August 8, 2017
Once worked at a conservative law firm. It was well known among the employees that if you expressed views contrary to conservatism, you would one day be shown the door. Of course, the cause would never be because you are a liberal, but all of a sudden your once stellar performance reviews would go south and eventually, you would be out for that reason. There were some liberal employees I knew of, but they had to keep their real political opinions to themselves if they wanted to keep their jobs.
In that kind of work environment it’s wise to at least appear to go along with the program or look for other employment.
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