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> So would you say that Damore is creating a victim identity for himself, or that he is an actual victim? Based on interviews I have seen with him, he feels as
by js8 9y ago
> So would you say that Damore is creating a victim identity for himself, or that he is an actual victim?
Based on interviews I have seen with him, he feels as a victim, but isn't creating any "victim identity", because he (somewhat) rejects the notion that he is a part of some group.
At least that's how I think one can answer your (somewhat loaded, frankly) question about somebody without opening their brain. Creating "victim identity" requires that there is a social group that one associates with, because the whole point of doing so is to find allies.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoHe has repeatedly identified himself with conservative thinkers, which he claims are victims.
- js8 9y agoIIRC in the Bloomberg interview linked from the article, he explicitly rejects that he would identify with alt-right (that's because the interviewer asks about it), and explains that he is pretty much a centrist. He does claim though that conservatives are victims of bias in Google, but that doesn't mean he _identifies_ with them. Kinda similar worldview to Jonathan Haidt, for example.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoHe explicitly identified himself as a classical liberal in his essay, which most people today call libertarian. He feels that this group is a victim in the Valley, and he identifies as being part of this group.
- drewbuschhorn 9y agoIf there's one thing this year has established, it's that we're all centrists, from the "create a white ethnostate" to "blackbloc anarchy forever" people. Not that you could ever take people at their word for their beliefs and politics, but its seems especially disingenuous in this case.
- js8 9y agoI disagree, I don't see any evidence that he is being dishonest.