By Harper Neidig - 01/08/18

James Damore, the programmer who was fired from Google last year after circulating a memo that argued women are less biologically suited for tech jobs, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging that it discriminates against conservative white men.

Damore and David Gudeman, another former Google engineer, filed the lawsuit in Santa Clara Superior Court on Monday on behalf of all current and former employees who have been discriminated against for being white, male, conservative or a combination of the three.

“Damore, Gudeman, and other class members were ostracized, belittled, and punished for their heterodox political views, and for the added sin of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians and/or males,” the 62-page lawsuit reads. “This is the essence of discrimination—Google formed opinions about and then treated Plaintiffs not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in groups with assumed characteristics.”

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Damore alleges in the court filing that he was mocked and insulted by coworkers for the views expressed in the memo.

In one email included in the lawsuit, a coworker wrote to Damore, “Feel free to pass this along to HR. Keep them in the loop for all I care. May as well do it early. You’re a misogynist and a terrible human. I will keep hounding you until one of us is fired. F**k you.”

Damore’s lawsuit comes just days after former female employees filed their own revised lawsuit against Google alleging gender pay disparities at the company.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/367...ination-against