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This is not a fact, it's an unproven allegation in a lawsuit filed by a known fraud represented by a lawyer known to have engage in unethical misrepresentations. The lawsuit is hoping to find evidence of this spurious claim of it makes it to the discovery stage.

Edit: His lawyer has made multiple misrepresentations of voter fraud in California, going as far as accusing innocent individuals of voter fraud. She's been investigated by the CA State Bar several times for unethical behavior. As for Damore, he's made several false statements about his time at treatment at Google that have been refuted by multiple non-biased sources.

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It's all very interesting. The lawyer is a woman, born in India. She should be very vocal against Damore, right? Instead, she is exposing bigotry inside Google. I see the same screenshots already posted here previously. Of course they have names, dates and all other details, and all this information can be easily checked during the trial. I don't think Dhillon would be stupid enough to make it up.

This is going to be very interesting...

> The lawyer is a woman, born in India. She should be very vocal against Damore, right?

No, you can't predict a person's opinions by their ethnicity and gender. Nicky Haley is an Indian-American woman, and is a leading GOP politician and supporter of President Trump. Clarence Thomas is an African-American male, and possibly the most partisan conservative on the Supreme Court.

You realize this pretty much proves the people arguing in favor of diversity's point right? (rhetorical question)

I didn't say it was a fact, I said it was a summary of what is alleged in the lawsuit. It does include evidence though and I haven't seen anyone deny it. I have also seen Google and other tech giant employees tweet out stuff like this regularly so it seems very likely to be true.

But it's not a fact yet, just accusations as you say.

Could you please cite sources that prove that Mr. Damore is a fraud and that his lawyer has done unethical things? This is the first I've ever heard of either claim.

I don't know how they could make these things up and get away with it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTCqa-XX0AA6DJs.jpg There is the name of the person, their message sent to other Google employees, that they got reported to HR - how on Earth could this be an "unproved allegation"? It's all easily verifiable. If Damore and his lawyer were fabricating this, it would be an equivalent of a professional suicide. And an incredibly stupid and pointless thing to do.

I was giving GP the benefit of the doubt in assuming they were referring to some other incidents outside the lawsuit that showed Damore is a fraud or his lawyer is unethical.

I mean, I've heard Damore be accused of all kinds of things, but I haven't heard anyone say he's a fraud before. I just assumed it's a detail that got lost in the discussion about whether or not he's a terrible sexist and/or racist. I haven't heard of his lawyer before so I wouldn't know anything about that.

In court cases, that is the mission of the attorney: To make their claims look persuasive and indisputable. In many/most lawsuits, if you only hear one side you will find it very persuasive. Wait until you see the other side's persuasive and indisputable arguments before you judge. That's why courts work the way they do, and why cases are not tried in the court of public opinion.

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