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Is this flagged for an obvious reason or is it that the topic is distasteful to some in the community? Reading through the actual complaint[0], as much as I de
by iaw 9y ago
Is this flagged for an obvious reason or is it that the topic is distasteful to some in the community?
Reading through the actual complaint[0], as much as I despise many aspects of the Damore memo, there is a lot of substance (in the complaint itself).
One example is the quote: “If you put a group of 40-something white men in a room together and tell them to come up with something creative or innovative, they’ll come back and tell you how enjoyable the process was, and how they want to do it again, but they come up with fuck-all as a result!”
HR defended this speech, but when substituting in any other class of individuals it would have been violating... It's hard to empathize with the conservative white males that filed the complaint but the substance of the complaint does hold some weight.
[0] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180108-Damore-Complaint_fs.pdf https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180...
- dragonwriter 9y ago> there is a lot of substance (in the complaint itself). All that means is that Damore has a minimally competent attorney. A complaint and the supporting information in a complaint (which isn't required to include evidence at all, that's what trials are for) is constructed to sell the idea of a violation of legal right (and, often, in a case expected tomget public attention, secondarily for PR reasons). It is not, quite often, a fair reflection of what the full evidence in context will show, though to be at all ethical it should be a plausible interpretation of the most favorable evidence when all other evidence is discarded as untrustworthy.