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"The latter suit was filed by plaintiff James Damore, an engineer who was fired from the company last year for distributing a memo that suggested men were bette
by rendall 9y ago
"The latter suit was filed by plaintiff James Damore, an engineer who was fired from the company last year for distributing a memo that suggested men were better suited to certain tech jobs than women. "
Excuse me. Hold on. Aaaaararrrrrarrrrgh!!!11!!! Sorry. Had to get that out of my system.
It is frustrating to read the same misapprehension over and over and over.
Once again: James Damore's memo suggested no such thing.
He said that men and women tend to have different interests; and that engineering jobs at Google, as they are implemented, tend to favor engineers whose personality attributes are those that are typically held by men. He then went on to explain how Google might change the jobs so that it would be more appealing to those whose personality traits typically align with women. There is nothing about how men are more suited.
Something is seriously wrong with society when journalists at WSJ (et. al., et. al., et. al.) do not have enough reading comprehension skills to read, and understand, Damore's memo.
- DanBC 9y agoWhen multiple degree educated people who use language as a tool of their job continue to misunderstand what damore said maybe the problem is with his piss-poor communication, and not their understanding. When very many people who read his document come to the same conclusion maybe, just maybe, that's what he actually said.
- GhostVII 9y agoI'm not a particularly well educated person and I could still clearly see that Damore was talking about preferences not abilities (he explicitly said it in the memo if I remember correctly). Seems more like the degree educated people aren't reading the memo very carefully.
- cpncrunch 9y agoHe was talking about preferences and abilities.
- apta 9y agoWhile I haven't read what he wrote, it may not be directly due to bad communication. I'm strongly inclined to believe that anyone going against the grain on this matter, even with logical and study-backed arguments will not end up in a good position (see e.g. Jordan Peterson).
- rendall 9y agoJordan Peterson is doing quite alright for himself, especially after the Channel 4 interview.
- rendall 9y agoI really wish it were that. I really wish I could bring myself to believe it. Because the alternative is that emotions, driven by political identity, overwhelms the thinking circuits of vast numbers of otherwise intelligent, compassionate and thoughtful people. So that when a thought-leader such as Gawker calls Damore's memo a 'screed', this exact same characterization is broadcast and repeated over and over and over by anyone who, in some sense, identifies with Gawker. That's terrifying. I would much rather believe that Damore is a misogynist. It's like everyone keeps repeating "Electrolytes: it's what plants crave." only it's "Damore's anti-diversity screed."
- therealdrag0 9y agoIt's not the clearest communication, but can we blame him? He's an engineer on the spectrum. On the other hand it feels like the journalists are reading into it what they want to read because controversy/black-and-white opinions get more clicks.