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Re:The fired Google engineer wrote his memo after he went to... by ajross on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:54AM (#14970497)
Exactly. Really, this is the strongest, best-constructed and best-applied "anti-SJW screed" we've seen yet. Gamergate sucked young-white-male-techies in, but made no sense to anyone else. This is the spin they should have taken from the beginning. "Guy got fired by Google for making perfectly reasonable points about why women aren't good at tech" is something every conservative can get behind.

Clearly Google messed up here and walked into a trap.

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Re:The fired Google engineer wrote his memo after he went to... by josteink on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:18PM (#14970787)
He never said women are not good at tech.

He said on average, as a group, they are less interested in tech, but that we should treat everyone as individuals.

That's not very controversial, now is it?

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Re:The fired Google engineer wrote his memo after he went to... by ajross on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:23PM (#14970854)
Semantics. He said that the women Google was hiring were not as good as the men that Google is hiring. The point of his thesis was that Google was hiring too many women (and minorities, since the programs he was attacking target both, though he avoided getting into specifics on this one).

That's, yeah, rather controversial. How would you feel if your coworker and all his friends (c.f. all you guys posting here) felt that you were sub-par? Would you tell your female coworkers this to their face? "I don't think your gender is not good at tech per se, but you personally were hired from a too-large pool of candidates and that makes you not as good at your job as I am. You probably shouldn't have been hired".

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