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I am surprised how big this 'manifesto' got. Imagine how surreal this must be for Damore. In regards to the explosive nature of this episode, I think it is in

I am surprised how big this 'manifesto' got. Imagine how surreal this must be for Damore. In regards to the explosive nature of this episode, I think it is indicative of the people who seem to be going progressively more insane's realization that their little social engineering experiments curry no favor in the halls of reality and their misguided efforts are rapidly being washed out to the sea of history while the scattered sand from their tantrums is being transformed by the tide into a nice, orderly and peaceful beach for those of us in the reality-based community to enjoy.

macspoofing 9y ago
>Imagine how surreal this must be for Damore. I'm not 100% convinced that he didn't expect this. Some of the points he raised are valid and people should be able to agree to disagree. But the points about biological differences being responsible for women not being interested in STEM are controversial. I don't think Science is there on that - so raising them in this kind of a manifesto is inflammatory.
- onli 9y ago
  If you want to see to which points science does have something to say, you might be interested in watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw. This presentation by Steven Pinker got posted yesterday in one of the other comment threads, and I found it to be an excellent pre-existing discussion of the merits of the memo.