James Damore, Google, and the YouTube radicalization of angry white men

Damore became an 'alt-right' hero after Google fired him over his views on women. Did Google-owned YouTube play a role in reinforcing those ideas?

For the YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, the Google manifesto was personal and painful. After reading the news of engineer James Damore's 10-page memo criticizing diversity initiatives, her daughter asked: "Mom, is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?"

Wojcicki recounted the conversation this week in a widely cited essay on sexism in tech in which she denounced the arguments advanced by Damore as "tragic". Her reflection did not, however, address the role that her own company's video platform may have played in spreading the questionable scientific claim that women are biologically less suited to tech.