In an interview aired Tuesday on CNN, James Damore — the former Google engineer recently fired for his controversial comments on diversity in the workplace — said “he does not support the alt-right.”

“Just because someone supports me doesn’t mean that I support them,” Damore said. He called himself a “centrist.”

Damore was fired after his memo — which argues that men are better represented in tech than women because they have a “higher drive for status” — was widely spread online last week.

Damore was pressed by the accuracy of his assertions, though, by CNN’s Laurie Segall. “Computer science, it hasn’t always been dominated by men,” Segall asked. “It wasn’t until 1984 that the number of women studying computer science started falling. So how does that fit into your argument as to why there aren’t more women in tech?”

Damore said the decline in women in the tech industry was because jobs were “more like accounting rather than modern day computer programming. It wasn’t as lucrative so part of the reason so many men go into tech is because it’s high paying. I know of many people at Google who weren’t exactly passionate about it, but it was what would provide for their family and so they still work there.” But Segall once again pushed back: