hurtloam wrote:
Lintar wrote:
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In the memo, which is the personal opinion of a male Google employee and is titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber", the author argues that women are underrepresented in tech not because they face bias and discrimination in the workplace, but because of inherent psychological differences between men and women.
So he got fired for
telling the truth.
There is nothing - absolutely
nothing - wrong with what he wrote, and much of it is patently
obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, which apparently those idiots at Google don't have.
Here's a quote from that article I linked.
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Damore should probably have used fewer words with high negative emotional indices when more neutral ones were available.
He framed his position badly. He could have made the same points in a much more engaging manner, but instead he set out to attack. He just comes over confrontational and bitter and that attitude doesn't foster a positive work environment.
It's like a dog with its hackles up baring its teeth at you.
I didn't get the impression that his intent was to attack. I think he just thought he was being logical, but he suffers from the same situational myopia that has plagues humans for decades, which makes it difficult for one to fully understand the experiences and perspectives of groups of which they are not a part of.
It was not uncommon in the 19th century and early 20th century to find papers on the "primitive man", meaning people who lived in tribal societies, often in Africa or the Amazon, and scientists of the day, who were almost entirely European men, would inevitably conclude these naked tribal people were inferior to white Europeans and this would seem like a logical an obvious conclusion to them because European ideas of superiority were based on technology. So they concluded these technologically less advanced individuals who ran around naked were also less intelligent, less moral, and had less complex societies than Europeans. Of course that isn't actually true. A conversation with your average person from a tribal society would reveal they are just as intelligent and their society is just a complex as "civilized" societies. That even though they wear fewer clothes, they have concepts of modesty...there are appropriate and inappropriate ways to act in their society, and they are not the barbaric savages that just run nilly willy around the jungle that these scientists had pegged them as.
In one instance, I think in the mid 20th century after the dropping of the atomic bombs, one tribesman from possibly an Amazonian tribe, on seeing footage of this, remarked to an anthropologist that the white man calls his people barbaric because they are head hunters, but he knows who he kills, and only kills who he knows, but "civilized" people kill indiscriminately and it was actually they who were barbaric.
10 Aug 2017, 9:09 pm
