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It's funny how you try to spin this around and claim that it's me who lives in an echo chamber, not the extreme-leftist mass media and SJW 'science'. So it's o
by kirillkh 9y ago
It's funny how you try to spin this around and claim that it's me who lives in an echo chamber, not the extreme-leftist mass media and SJW 'science'.
So it's okay from your point of view that major news outlets, such as Bloomberg TV, switch into propaganda mode and start making anti-factual claims, such as 'there is no research to support the idea that there are biological causes for the lack of women in tech' [1]. It might be too much to expect commercial media to be objective, but outright fabricating facts is nothing less than betrayal of everything journalism stands for.
Is that a singular case of leftist propaganda? Far from it. If you took a look at Google News the week this story was hot, you'd see your run-of-the-mill articles that open by twisting facts in the title. E.g., 'Anti-diversity manifesto' was apparently considered a mild way to describe it [2]. Some of them proceeded to make false claims, e.g. that Damore was "criticizing the company’s efforts to increase diversity" (no he was not, he considers diversity a good thing and suggests better ways to increase it) or arguing that Google "should stop offering programs to minorities and women" (he was only discussing racist and sexist programs, not _all_ programs) [3].
As to 'fake news' - I take it you're trying to paint me as a Trump supporter. So let me tell you I'm not one, and I didn't even know what that was all about (as I never bothered with US mainstream media before) before it hit me where it hurts with the Damore story. Now I don't know how much pro-Trump media twisted facts, maybe it was the same. All I know is I was shocked to find the mainstream US media to be so ideologically charged as to attack a guy for his [very mild and well-substantiated] opinions with forged facts and labels. Because I know that guy could have been me.
In summary, you, together with the mainstream US culture, need to pop your own obvious, well-documented and plainly visible ideological bubble before you start making claims that people with true liberal, pro-science, pluralistic views like myself are in one.
[1] https://youtu.be/s4WoeOkj2Ng?t=2m1s https://youtu.be/s4WoeOkj2Ng?t=2m1s
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/5/16101978/google-employee-wrote-anti-diversity-manifesto https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/5/16101978/google-employee-w...
[3] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/google-fires-employee-who-wrote-10-page-anti-diversity-manifesto https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/google-fires-employe...