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According to the Guardian[1], "Damore initially told the Guardian he would answer questions by email on Monday, but then stopped responding to inquiries. He had
by pdkl95 9y ago
According to the Guardian[1], "Damore initially told the Guardian he would answer questions by email on Monday, but then stopped responding to inquiries. He had a few brief email exchanges with reporters, including at the New York Times, Bloomberg and the rightwing site website Breitbart."
If he wanted to get his side of the story out after being fir4ed, he could have taken advantage of any of many news organizations - which range across the political spectrum - that were offering a platform to speak from. Instead, he stopped responding to those requests and gave an interview with an "alt-right", "men's rights" activist host, Stefan Molyneux. This is one of the worst things he could have done if he wanted to avoid being associated with misogyny.
I get the impression that a lot of people are not familiar with how fascist ("alt-right") propaganda works. While Molyneux's audience is large, interviewing with the NYT or Breitbart would have reached a larger audience, so this isn't about getting his story out. This isn't about the contents of the memo and the bad science about sex-linked preferences. It's about repeating the idea as many times as possible until the idea of discriminating against women becomes normalizes as a legitimate political question.
The lawsuit itself is similar: it keeps people talking about discrimination. The propaganda works regardless of the outcome of the case. If you want to see a very good explanation of how this type of propaganda works, see this[2] explanation of how "Triumph of the Will" probably influenced your mental model of the Nazi party.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/09/james-damore-google-memo-youtube-interviews https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/09/james-dam...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1Qm1Z_D7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1Qm1Z_D7w
- leereeves 9y agoPerhaps he read the articles about his memo and refused to work with those media organizations that took his remarks out of context and ignored his clear statement that: > Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions. The Guardian misrepresented the memo, why would Damore trust them to publish the interview honestly?
- pdkl95 9y ago> The Guardian misrepresented the contents of the memo, why would Damore trust them to publish the interview honestly? An argument about how the Guardian's supposed misrepresentation of the memo is would conveniently distraction away from my main point: he ran straight to an alt-right misogynist for his first interview instead of taking any of the other options.
- leereeves 9y agoLike Bloomberg? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engineer-damore-i-feel-google-betrayed-me-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin...
- pdkl95 9y agoYes, he went there after interviewing with the alt-right misogynist.
- leereeves 9y agoYou're making an awfully big deal out of the order of interviews.
- pdkl95 9y agoNo, the order is not important. The point that your three replies have carefully avoided is that it was his choice to associate himself with a prominent alt-right misogynist. You even suggested that he really avoided mainstream sources fearing misrepresentation, which means Molyneux must was his safe space.
- leereeves 9y agoGuilt by association is a rather weak argument. If the best evidence you can find for your proposition is that he once spoke with someone, you should drop the idea. > he really avoided mainstream sources fearing misrepresentation Not "fearing". Having actually experienced misrepresentation. Also, not "mainstream", far-left, like The Guardian.
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