We're talking about a particular person and a particular book -- Chaos Monkeys -- and it was non-fiction, and a memoir. Fiction I would imagine would be given more leeway, but I guess we'll have to see when it comes up.

> Source: my own experiences in the criminal justice system and Chaos Monkeys, by Antonio Garcia-Martinez (a Y Combinator alum!).

Makes me think even harder about the _real_ reason Apple canceled him.

The work of Facebook's illicit media team has led to many, many prosecutions. They intentionally keep quiet about it because the reaction to a headline like "500-member Child Porn Ring busted on Facebook" isn't "Geez, I'm glad Facebook is keeping us safe," it's "Wow, maybe we shouldn't let our teenagers on Facebook" -- a reaction that significantly hurts their bottom line, and tips off the ChiPo folks besides.

Source: my own experiences in the criminal justice system and Chaos Monkeys, by Antonio Garcia-Martinez (a Y Combinator alum!).

I'm choosing a specific sentence that has been highlighted as unacceptable and is meant to disgust. I'm sure there is much more to the book Chaos Monkeys than "SF women weak," yet he was fired for that comment within his book, with no care given to context.

Hence the question, why the double standard?

Have I defended the firing of the author of the book Chaos Monkeys? Is it permissible to believe that no one should be fired for what amounts to political views?

I read it exactly the opposite. A few years ago my wife was recommended Chaos Monkeys by somebody. It was stunning what he had willingly written down to share with the world. Every few minutes she'd explode in horror at the next even more outrageous thing in the text. Instead of being the expected book on silicon valley, it was fascinating because this person was so proud of being a tremendous asshole to everybody.

The book is not a satire. Not even a little. It is absolutely completely honest and the author is a complete jerk.

Is this the book? Chaos Monkeys, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28259132

Being reassigned as opposed to fired is quite the privilege.

Everyone in the comments is viewing it as completely different than the Damore fiasco because this racist blog post was written in 2007, but are we forgetting that Antonio Martinez wrote Chaos Monkeys 5 years ago and was fired for it now? [1]

What's the difference between:

1) Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naïve despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit

2) If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing

I think it's absurd that the former is worth firing and the latter isn't. Google has a reputation to be a more 'progressive' company than Apple; is that just code for undertones of anti-semitism?

[1] https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/employee-fired-for-s...

This is not someone I would hire for a leadership position. Chaos Monkeys, autobiographical in nature, is by his own admission enough insight into his character and integrity to show he is unfit to lead a diverse group of employees.

If the position he was hired for was in fact that of a low level engineer conceivably who ever hired him did not think it would present too much of an issue? Just doesn't sound like a good cultural fit and I can understand the pushback from folks who would have to work with him as part of a team.

I have always considered my professional reputation to be something that took my entire career to cultivate, but can be tarnished inadvertently with one misstep. Probably why I haven't published a book of my personal escapades, and definitely why I don't tweet every thought that pops into my mind.