On Monday, the former Google engineer fired after he asserted in a memo that biological causes were responsible for the tech industry's gender inequality sued his former employer claiming that he was discriminated against as a white man with conservative political views. The former Google engineer, James Damore, caused an uproar last year when he wrote the internal memo, which later became public. In the months following his firing, Damore has become a popular cause among right-leaning U.S.