Both are Google Employees who got fired for rubbing their superiors in the wrong way.
> whose continued employment would open the company up to a risk of lawsuit
If protecting google from a lawsuit is your main concern, aren't you for firing her?
The memo of James isn't as much a threat to bottom line or a lawsuit as unveiling some unethical practices (which she allegedly is up to due to her ethical concerns).
My point is precisely you can't have it both ways and be consistent.
What will those rooting for Google to fire James Damore have to say now? I bet there is a significant overlap of those supporting her now with those rooting for Damore's firing. And Damore didn't make any demand, just a memo.
I see many support her (from a justified? knee jerk reaction?) that being fired from a corporation for questioning it's bottom line is due to the power dynamics. The support to Timnit Gebru (provided her demands are provably good, but only hurts google's bottom line) would be more powerful/rational if the same people will vocally support Damore.
Even if supporting a worker being fired without complete information is a justified position to take based on corporate dynamics, some have started making this into ugly race issue. Some are `supporting` her in the lines of "She was black and hence was fired". If people are judging others as racist just based on tweets now, Jeff Dean seems the opposite of such smear. Even if Dean was a corporate zombie pulling the trigger to save the company bottomline, calling him racist for that without evidence for the latter is insane.
There seems to be a sick trend in progressive politics in US to move away from supporting workers and start making everything into a race issue with no justification.
> whose continued employment would open the company up to a risk of lawsuit
If protecting google from a lawsuit is your main concern, aren't you for firing her? The memo of James isn't as much a threat to bottom line or a lawsuit as unveiling some unethical practices (which she allegedly is up to due to her ethical concerns).
My point is precisely you can't have it both ways and be consistent.