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Re:James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his le... by dragonwriter on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:39AM (#14989509)
Being able to list potential problems with being too far to either political extreme doesn't make you a centrist. Someone to the left of the center of the left, or the right of the center of the right, much less either side of the overall center, can easily do that.

You can be pretty far out and still see the guy two steps farther out as dangerously deluded.

Re:James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his le... by mpweiher on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:50AM (#14989609)
Sure. He could be a raving lunatic right wing whacko for all we know. But that's not in his document, and not in his interviews.
Re:James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his le... by dragonwriter on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:56AM (#14989678)
> But that's not in his document

Neither is anything that would support him being described as a “centrist”.

Re:James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his le... by mpweiher on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:12AM (#14989809)
To repeat the quote from the top of the thread:

"Neither side is 100% correct and both viewpoints are necessary for a functioning society or, in this case, company. A company too far to the right may be slow to react, overly hierarchical, and untrusting of others. In contrast, a company too far to the left will constantly be changing (deprecating much loved services), over diversify its interests (ignoring or being ashamed of its core business), and overly trust its employees and competitors."

This is exactly a centrist position.

Now you can reasonably argue that on balance the document isn't centrist. I think you're wrong, but reasonable people can disagree.

That there isn't anything in there that would support a description of centrism is trivially false.

Re:James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his le... by dragonwriter on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:52PM (#14991803)
Its not centrist position, unless "centrist" is so broad as to include every position not at the farthest extreme of either the left or right, as anyone not at a far polar extreme could agree with it.