Great article! One note. Under point 4: "It is striking to me that the manifesto author repeatedly lists race alongside gender when listing programs and prefe

Great article! One note. Under point 4: "It is striking to me that the manifesto author repeatedly lists race alongside gender when listing programs and preferences he thinks should be done away with, but, unlike gender, he never purports to have any scientific backing for this. The omission is telling. Would defenders of the memo still be comfortable if the author had casually summarized race and IQ studies to argue that purported biological differences — not discrimination or unequal access to education — explained Google’s shortage of African-American programmers?" I reacted to the one mention of IQ in the memo, which seems extremely suspect: "Just as some on the Right deny science that runs counter to the “God > humans > environment” hierarchy (e.g., evolution and climate change) the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)"