Have you read James Damore's essay? If you look at only the abstract theory, there wasn't a whole lot of 'think differently' or rebellious points of view in there. Totally identical mindset to the status quo establishment. He just decided to be rude while presenting his arguments using non-technical language, and pointing out things about people that they're powerless to change. That's what makes it scary. For example, no one would have thought the worst of him if he wrote a treatise talking about behavioral correlations between samples having or not having the sry gene and called out publishers for suppressing such statistics. Instead he called women neurotic. Not a great way to speak truth to power.
Not defending the rest of damore but the neurotic thing is a reference to well known research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism. The fault in that case lies with whoever named a technical research concept using a word that already had negative popular associations.
