James Damore, the software engineer who was fired from Google after writing an internal memo alleging women are underrepresented in the tech industry because of biological differences, struck back in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Friday.
In his op-ed, Mr. Damore said the tech company was "almost like a cult" with its "own leaders and saints, all believed to righteously uphold the "sacred motto of 'don't be evil'," he wrote, according to The Hill.
"The viewpoint I was putting forward is generally suppressed at Google because of the company's 'ideological echo chamber'," Mr. Damore wrote in the op-ed. "My firing neatly confirms that point. How did Google, the company that hires the smartest people in the world, become so ideologically driven and intolerant of scientific debate and reasoned argument?"
Mr. Damore added he thought the company would fail if it continued to "silence open and honest discussion … unable to meet the needs of its remarkable employees and sure to disappoint its billions of users."
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