One still happens today and has received zero essays from PG, despite it still being an issue in the tech community, and the other doesn't actually happen.
> In 2020, Shor was fired by Civis Analytics after tweeting a summary of an academic study about protests by Omar Wasow, a black political scientist at Princeton University. Shor's tweet read "Post-MLK-assasination race riots reduced Democratic vote share in surrounding counties by 2%, which was enough to tip the 1968 election to Nixon.
"In 2020, 8.9% of employed LGBT people, including 11.3% of LGBT employees of color and 6.5% of white LGBT employees, reported being fired or not hired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity."[1]
Your dude david who "serves as head of data science with Blue Rose Research" is barely a blip.
Shockingly low considering it’s self reported. I would expect far more people to latch on to any excuse for getting fired or not hired besides “I wasn’t that good at my job”.
Have you considered the possibility that oppressing gay people and firing people with unpopular opinions are both wrong and should be opposed?