Ritual Defamation

  Globalization and digital media have made ritual defamation a widespread practice. One such example is the dismissal, by Google, of the engineer, James Damore. He was accused of violating the company’s code of conduct. Damore published a document called “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”. In this memo, he criticized pro-diversity measures. According to him, they represented an ideological bias that negatively altered Google’s performance. Regardless of the opinion we may have of Damore, who later suffered harassment, his case supports the idea of how collective thinking prevails and represses the subjective. In effect, whatever is politically correct and the opinion…