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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by dingo_bat on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:28PM (#14953833)
> There is a very long list of odious things you can claim "science" justifies;

Does the length of such a list invalidate the items in the list? I don't see your point.

> in fact, it's kind of hard to think of something you can't six-degrees-of-science your way to defending.

Just because something is not directly implied by something else, doesn't mean there is no correlation. If you are working on a mathematical proof, would you give up if you cannot reach the end in 6 (or any arbitrary small number) of steps? Would you declare the assertion wrong? If yes, you're just a bad scientist.

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by tptacek on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:34PM (#14953892)
Again, my argument here is simple: it is hard to think of a horrible thing you could say that you couldn't justify using the logic you presented upthread, which makes your argument seem pretty unpersuasive.