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Damore, trying to make an earnest intellectual contribution, got a lot of people really upset, and they campaigned to have him destroyed. This is the most visc
by jariel 7y ago
Damore, trying to make an earnest intellectual contribution, got a lot of people really upset, and they campaigned to have him destroyed.
This is the most visceral and obvious example of an outrage mob possible.
- abstractbarista 7y agoI feel bad for anyone who disagrees with this. Their bias prevents them from seeing the world as it truly exists.
- wpietri 7y agoI feel bad for anyone who believes that their political opinions just happen to represent "the world as it truly exists".
- jariel 7y agoGoogle is entirely full of vindictive people with blatantly political opinions - many who have acted with obvious malice towards others, so spare us the hypocrisy. If this were truly a matter of 'opinion rocking the boat' - then there would be a bunch of other firings, policy changes etc. - but that is not the case at all.
- wpietri 7y agoDamore's action was explicitly political. Its whole point was that Google was just too darned left, and foolish for being so. One can't reasonably try to reach a large audience with something intentionally upsetting and then be surprised that those people are in fact upset. Freedom of speech cannot mean freedom from other people's speech.