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"don’t feel safe making public statements about, say, their belief that women are inherently less intelligent than women" James Damore was destroyed for saying
by jariel 6y ago
"don’t feel safe making public statements about, say, their belief that women are inherently less intelligent than women"
James Damore was destroyed for saying essentially men are different than women.
People are destroyed for implying that 'women menstruate' (!) - because of course the position that 'trans men menstruate' excludes them and is therefore 'transphobic'.
Jordan Peterson is banned from campus for questioning the
way in which we present and interpret 'equal pay' data etc..
Etc.
These are reasonable discussions to be had.
In reality - some groups are using terms like 'hate, racism, harm and violence' to suppress those they disagree with.
I don't think these have popular support, as generally pro-oppression articles meet with pretty strong resistance in the comments sections of the most reliable progressive online magazines, however, these people have outsized power in the media.
- dash2 6y agoThese all reasonable points, but my comment was that this isn’t a good article. Indeed it didn’t mention any of these examples. (Plus it made the very, very silly Stalin analogy.)
- manicdee 6y agoJames Damore was destroyed for ranting against diversity policies, and claimed a lot more than just “men are smarter than women”. He claimed there was significant difference between any man’s and any woman’s intelligence, and that workers should be employed on merit as if they weren’t already selected on merit to start with. Read his whole manifesto before you go simplifying his argument to one point.