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OP paywalled, but what's funny is that your comment could be read in two completely opposing ways: 1. Zuckerberg tells employees not to mistreat diverse views
by Radim 8y ago
OP paywalled, but what's funny is that your comment could be read in two completely opposing ways:
1. Zuckerberg tells employees not to mistreat diverse views like Google did with Damore
2. Zuckerberg tells employees not to mistreat diverse views like Damore did at Google
I find there's a bi-modal distribution in how people interpret Damore's memo. It's like that blue-gold dress debate again:
1. evil sexist falsehood propaganda by a closet neo-nazi, meant to hurt
2. a well-sourced, accurate and well-meaning text by a nerd, meant to help
I read Damore's memo and reached my own conclusion (which is irrelevant to my point so I won't even state it), but isn't this dichotomy fascinating?
- mcintyre1994 8y agoHis memo just seemed to me like the view a Republican holds on a polarising topic - so it's not surprising it splits into two polarised bimodal responses in my opinion.
- benatkin 8y agoTo me, there seem to be reactionaries on both the left wing and the right wing - the horseshoe effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
- cm2187 8y agoI think part of the problem is largely calling "right wing", "alt-right", "bigot" any view one disagrees with.
- bachbach 8y agoHorseshoe Theory is not true. Your supporting link says it has no substance - it's a simple meme that is wrong. This subject annoys me because I am convinced that not only does the Horseshoe Theory have no predictive power - but also that it denies something which really is true - that political violence can come out of the Center aka from Liberalism. This is a huge blindspot in modern political culture. Conflict coming out of the Center would be a true Black Swan event.
- andai 8y agoIf you assume the most ignorant of motivations and the worst of intentions, it relieves you of the responsibility to consider the person's perspective in earnest. I mean, it does no such thing, but that's how it feels, internally, and that's what generally happens.