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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by postnihilism on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:36AM (#14954357)
The part where he implies the massive disparity of representation between men and women in tech (17% percent of technical roles at Google, 15% at Facebook) is due to small and inherent physiological differences, which make women inferior at performing in those roles, rather than hundreds of years of structuring our society and culture to favor men. It is an invalid argument.
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by rufus_2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:55AM (#14954842)
> Hundreds of years of structuring society and culture to favor men

Utterly ahistorical nonsense.

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by postnihilism on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:33AM (#14955030)
Could your great grandmother vote?
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by rufus_2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:27AM (#14955328)
Could your great grandfather opt out of war?
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by saalweachter on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:36AM (#14957644)
Yes?

At various times (in the United States) men have been able to opt out of war by: hiring a replacement to take their place; being a conscientious objector and taking a non-combat role; being born at the right time to not be drafted, and choosing not to volunteer; enlisting in a branch of the service unlikely to see combat; pleading a hardship; finding a doctor to claim you are medically unfit; just walking away (desertion, as long as it was not during combat, has historically be inconsistently punished).

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by makomk on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:50PM (#14961813)
One of the major criticisms of conscription in the US is that, in practice, whether those methods of avoiding conscription were actually available depended on race, class and how wealthy you were. So only some men could actually take advantage of them; the rest were screwed. (This conflation of the experience of a few better-off men with the experiences of men as a whole seems to be quite common in many social justice circles for some reason.)
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by saalweachter on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:45PM (#14963684)
Of the four older men whose draft stories I know personally, two had exemptions (hardship/agricultural labor), but one went to war anyway, one enlisted as a pilot in the National Guard, and one lucked out by having the draft end before his number came up. None of them were particularly wealthy or influential, although all of them were white.
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by oh_sigh on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:19AM (#14954636)
Where exactly did he argue that?

I get the feeling that this document is what Scott Adams talks about when he writes that two people can sit in the same movie theater, look at the same screen, and watch two different movies play out.