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Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by hashberry on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:41AM (#14980780)
> I just dont understand how people who are supposed to be so smart can be so dumb.

Aspergers or something similar. Watch the Jordan Peterson interview. He's not well-spoken and he's not even that passionate. It's a joke the mainstream media is calling his memo a "manifesto" when it was just his attempt to analyze gender and diversity in his own socially awkward way. This really is about outrage culture.

Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by mywittyname on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:58PM (#14984192)
He definitely has that arrogance and entitlement complex that some Really Smart developers tend to have. I kind of got this impression from his email, especially when he postulates that competitiveness and self-reliance are traits of excellent developers while being collaborative and people-oriented are traits that bad developers have.

Once I saw him in this video, it became pretty clear that he's one of those entitled developers that you really don't want to be stuck on a team with.

Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by losteverything on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:53PM (#14982280)
Who is Jordan Peterson and whom did he interview?
Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by mikeleeorg on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:14PM (#14982504)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU

Here's the video of the interview.

Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by jshevek on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:25PM (#14983198)
Jordan Peterson is great. He's a thoughtful, honest person who is delightfully transparent in his efforts to make sense of the universe. He publicly spoke up in support of free speech, and therefore become a target to be intimidated and harassed by - well, the usual suspects. When he refused to back down, he became a minor celebrity among those who value free speech and who are concerned by the recent rise of totalitarian ideology on the left.
Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by lanterk on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:56PM (#14983520)
Except he blatantly misconstrued what Bill C-16 was.
Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo? by confounded on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:16PM (#14986342)
Which totalitarian ideology is on the rise, on the left?