07-23-2023, 05:54 AM
I am interested in the current lives of two academic/tech oriented guys who ran afoul of current year values and had their careers upended. I'd also like to hear about anyone else you know of who are like them, and what became of them.
James Damore - former Google engineer
Famously fired from Google in 2017 after he took the diversity and inclusion team's request for feedback at face value. His linkedin says he's currently a software engineer at an unnamed startup as of 5 years ago, who knows if that's still the case. Seems to make a tweet every few months, last tweet in February this year. Maybe he's doing okay.
Julian von Abele - former(?) Columbia University physics student
Not as famous, but his transgression would be considered more severe. After being sick of hearing about white privilege on campus, he was filmed saying white people are awesome and invented the modern world (these statements have been factchecked by real American patriots as TRUE). I have heard he was going to graduate by 2021, but I have no idea what happened to him beyond March 2019, the month of his last tweet and an interview with The Atlantic. He had published some papers and a book before this, but I see nothing since.
James Damore - former Google engineer
Famously fired from Google in 2017 after he took the diversity and inclusion team's request for feedback at face value. His linkedin says he's currently a software engineer at an unnamed startup as of 5 years ago, who knows if that's still the case. Seems to make a tweet every few months, last tweet in February this year. Maybe he's doing okay.
Julian von Abele - former(?) Columbia University physics student
Not as famous, but his transgression would be considered more severe. After being sick of hearing about white privilege on campus, he was filmed saying white people are awesome and invented the modern world (these statements have been factchecked by real American patriots as TRUE). I have heard he was going to graduate by 2021, but I have no idea what happened to him beyond March 2019, the month of his last tweet and an interview with The Atlantic. He had published some papers and a book before this, but I see nothing since.