When the dominant culture opposes the scientific data...

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei

James Damore was a Google employee who submitted a short pdf to an internal Google group called "critics", asking them to evaluate whether the company was out of line or whether his thinking was out of line. His memo (linked below) criticized the methods (not the goal) of Google's diversity program using the current, well established scientific understanding of the issues.

He was fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes".

The memo: https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf

After reading Damore's paper I found it most interesting that his goal was to make a BETTER diversity program, not to oppose diversity. He was proposing that Google alter their internal operations to make the job itself more appealing to "under-represented" groups (based on the scientific data), rather than simply discriminating against "over-represented" groups based on the assumption that there's some kind of evil bias as the sole cause of the diversity gap.

I also found it interesting how many people commenting on the issue around the web were immediately stereotyping him as a terrible bigot and criticizing his position when they clearly hadn't read it. That's the part that bothers me the most.