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The people I'm honest with about my politics are people I've sort of slowly sussed out as cool, we're all pretty afraid to state many of our actual opinions be

• mrep 9y ago
  > I don't care very much but there are a ton of people out there afraid of being damore'd. Seriously, here is how it went down from what I remember: Damore writes controversial internal only paper -> another googler takes the document meant for internal only viewing and shares it with the media -> someone removes most/all graphs and citations to make it look more like an opinion piece (most likely to flame up more media attention) -> journalist posts internal document without permission from company. That is at least 2 people going out of there way (in a most likely illegal way too) essentially trying to start a witch hunt on this guy and ruin his life for writing 1 paper just because they do not agree with him.
  • throwaway1748 9y ago
    The real problem is how much of a win that tactic was for Gizmodo and others who published the incomplete document in bad faith. Clickbait sensationalism in media, particularly around race and gender issues, created this environment.
    • Chris2048 9y ago
      And Gizmodo is the new incarnation of Gawker, sued for obnoxious journalism in the first place..
• abusoufiyan 9y ago
  Just want to point out that this is life in America for most minorities / women. We all have conversations amongst each other we would never have in front of others precisely because we know that our white / male bosses will take it poorly and treat us differently if they hear it.