Re:How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon ...
by lern_too_spel on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:24AM
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He has repeatedly identified himself with conservative thinkers, which he claims are victims.
Re:How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon ...
by js8 on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:32AM
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IIRC in the Bloomberg interview linked from the article, he explicitly rejects that he would identify with alt-right (that's because the interviewer asks about it), and explains that he is pretty much a centrist. He does claim though that conservatives are victims of bias in Google, but that doesn't mean he _identifies_ with them.
Kinda similar worldview to Jonathan Haidt, for example.
Re:How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon ...
by lern_too_spel on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:56AM
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He explicitly identified himself as a classical liberal in his essay, which most people today call libertarian. He feels that this group is a victim in the Valley, and he identifies as being part of this group.
Re:How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon ...
by drewbuschhorn on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:32PM
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If there's one thing this year has established, it's that we're all centrists, from the "create a white ethnostate" to "blackbloc anarchy forever" people.
Not that you could ever take people at their word for their beliefs and politics, but its seems especially disingenuous in this case.
Based on interviews I have seen with him, he feels as a victim, but isn't creating any "victim identity", because he (somewhat) rejects the notion that he is a part of some group.
At least that's how I think one can answer your (somewhat loaded, frankly) question about somebody without opening their brain. Creating "victim identity" requires that there is a social group that one associates with, because the whole point of doing so is to find allies.