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Not an argument
by lol2143651 9y ago
Not an argument
- Barrin92 9y agothere is no need for one. Google is a company, not a marketplace for people's prejudices. They have every right to shut discourse like this down, and they should because it is insulting to every women working at Google. The good thing about being a company instead of a townhall is that you don't need to accomodate adolescent men feeling insecure about their female coworkers.
- TimTheTinker 9y agoI didn't see anything in the "manifesto" that seemed insulting to women... care to elaborate?
- Barrin92 9y agosaying that women are biologically worse engineers would be the primary candidate
- TimTheTinker 9y agoI didn't see that at all. What I understood him to be saying was that on average (across society), there are various biological differences. I don't see any insult there, intended or not. I thought his only intent was to argue against institutionalized discrimination.
- thehardsphere 9y agoIt was. Apparently, lots of people either haven't read the "manifesto", or have but have read into it something not explicitly stated by the author. I think some critics have claimed that the things explicitly stated by the author implictly mean something bad, but they haven't actually made the effort of showing that conclusion is supported by anything the author wrote.
- orangecat 9y agoWhich he did not say. The discussion on gender differences was providing possible reasons why women may be less likely than men to pursue engineering careers. It says nothing about the relative ability of women who do choose that path.
- s_kilk 9y agoReplying with a standard maga-snowflake quip is also not an argument.
- yvhhjbb 9y agoIs this Reddit? Eff off. Thanks!
- sctb 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14939770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14939770 and marked it off-topic.