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Do you have any reason to believe Beale isn't just talking out his ass trying to boost his own persona and relevance? I find it particularly suspect the way he

Do you have any reason to believe Beale isn't just talking out his ass trying to boost his own persona and relevance? I find it particularly suspect the way he tries to align Damore with his interests and politics. "He says he doesn’t know if Damore has read his guide, but is following the playbook." This looks to me like Beale is trying to make everyone view Damore as a member of the alt-right. It makes the left see them as a growing organized group that's waging war. It's the same tactic that terrorist groups use when they take credit for attacks that they in reality had nothing to do with. It makes them seem bigger and scarier if people think they're organizing all these attacks around the globe.

geofft 9y ago
> Do you have any reason to believe Beale isn't just talking out his ass trying to boost his own persona and relevance? It's a good concern - but Beale's concrete and measurable involvement with the Hugos and with Gamergate makes me inclined to believe he's not at a loss for followers or in need of magnifying his own influence. To be clear, I don't think Damore is a member of the alt-right, nor do I think that Damore planned to disrupt anything at Google. (The best explanation to me is that he was earnest about the points in the memo, had a little bit of the why-can't-I-answer-this-from-first-principles tendency that is incredibly prevalent in tech, and got coopted by alt-right folks, yes.) I believe there are lots of other people at Google doing this, though, on purpose.