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One of the ironic things about this is the right has fought for years to empower corporations, and disempower workers, then goes apoplectic when Google Inc sees

One of the ironic things about this is the right has fought for years to empower corporations, and disempower workers, then goes apoplectic when Google Inc sees him as a liability and disposes of him like a used tissue. Damore sees the left as the problem, then files an NLRB complaint to try to protect himself. The biologically IQ-superior Damore might be surprised to find that the worker protections of the NLRB have been systematically hollowed out over the preceding decades by his conservative pals. Conservatives and Republicans fought decades to enshrine the power of corporations and the 1%, and to undermine any worker autonomy. I have to roll my eyes at all this. I guess Damore found out the hard way that he's not part of the biologically IQ superior clique he thought he was part of.

jabv 9y ago
I did ctrl-f for "iq" at diversitymemo.com and only came up with a reference to a comparison Damore made about types of scientific evidence the left or right tend to ignore. The comment in question was not referring to IQ of males or females in any way. So I am not sure where your accusations regarding IQ come from.
supremesaboteur 9y ago
The Right is not fighting for the rights of corporations. They believe that a free society best protects the rights of the little guy
- matt4077 9y ago
  It's just terribly convenient to believe that everything that's good for large corporations is also good for "the little guy". Considering the balancing of these interests (which most people consider to at least sometimes conflict) is the core issue of politics, such a belief would actually render politics useless. You could just appoint the top 10 CEOs and wait for the trickle-down wealth to wash over the masses.
SmirkingRevenge 9y ago
The problem with "whataboutism" is that its an infinite loop. If this were Hobby Lobby or Chick Filet, and an employee wrote an "pro birth-control screed" on their company discussion board, and was promptly fired, many of the people on the right standing up for the Google engineer would currently be defending the rights of big business to fire who they want, and attacking the fired employee for lacking awareness and common sense to know his audience, and to keep his politics out of his work environment, etc. But that's a bit of a cold comfort, since so many of the left are doing that exact same thing now. And do the exact opposite in cases where the situation is the inverse. Basically, most people are hypocrites. How do we get past this garbage? I wish I knew.

jabv 9y ago

I did ctrl-f for "iq" at diversitymemo.com and only came up with a reference to a comparison Damore made about types of scientific evidence the left or right tend to ignore. The comment in question was not referring to IQ of males or females in any way. So I am not sure where your accusations regarding IQ come from.

supremesaboteur 9y ago

The Right is not fighting for the rights of corporations. They believe that a free society best protects the rights of the little guy

matt4077 9y ago
It's just terribly convenient to believe that everything that's good for large corporations is also good for "the little guy". Considering the balancing of these interests (which most people consider to at least sometimes conflict) is the core issue of politics, such a belief would actually render politics useless. You could just appoint the top 10 CEOs and wait for the trickle-down wealth to wash over the masses.

SmirkingRevenge 9y ago

The problem with "whataboutism" is that its an infinite loop. If this were Hobby Lobby or Chick Filet, and an employee wrote an "pro birth-control screed" on their company discussion board, and was promptly fired, many of the people on the right standing up for the Google engineer would currently be defending the rights of big business to fire who they want, and attacking the fired employee for lacking awareness and common sense to know his audience, and to keep his politics out of his work environment, etc. But that's a bit of a cold comfort, since so many of the left are doing that exact same thing now. And do the exact opposite in cases where the situation is the inverse. Basically, most people are hypocrites. How do we get past this garbage? I wish I knew.