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Damore likely knew that he was protected from dismissal by California state law, which prohibits a firm from firing an employee for his political beliefs. I would say the complaint to NLRB was more an insurance policy to that same end. For a company to fire someone who had filed a NLRB complaint is considered illegal retaliation. That gave Damore two good reasons to believe he would not be nailed to the cross for the memo. That is why he was surprised that they ignored these legal protections in favor of summary virtue signaling. Damore anticipated he was dealing with a rational organization and he actually proved the opposite is true.[/quote]
I'm not familiar with all the ins-and-outs of California employment law (though I am employed in California), but I am doubtful that protection for political beliefs extends to protection for stating them in a disruptive manner. A pretty good defense for Google that his firing was not about his political views but rather about the impact his actions had on his workplace is the fact that none of the people who indicated support for his views were rooted out and fired.

And again, while I'm unfamiliar with the relevant statute in detail, I know in general filing an NLRB complaint is not automatic protection against firing. You have to demonstrate that your firing was specifically retaliation for filing the claim. It's highly unlikely that Damore can make that case.

Honestly, I'm fairly certain Damore knew he would be fired. The swift support he's gotten and the speed with which he's filed legal complaints suggest this was all staged to drive toward a judicial review of diversity policies in the private sector. It's a tactic used frequently by the left and right to drive policy change via the court system. I'm fine with the system being used this way, but let's not pretend Damore is a victim. He's no more a victim than Rosa Parks was, who also acted specifically to get her case brought before the courts. But I would say only one of these people is truly a civil rights activist.[/quote]

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