Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by jshevek on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:36PM
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The situation is more dire than that link suggests.
It isn't just that some people are too emotionally reactive to be directly involved in a reasonable conversation.
We are currently shutting down even the possibility of a conversation among any set of a large group of people, because some people in that group are uncomfortable with it.
They aren't even willing to sit out the conversation that makes them uncomfortable, they are insisting that nobody else be allowed to have the conversation within the larger community.
It isn't just that some people are too emotionally reactive to be directly involved in a reasonable conversation.
We are currently shutting down even the possibility of a conversation among any set of a large group of people, because some people in that group are uncomfortable with it.
They aren't even willing to sit out the conversation that makes them uncomfortable, they are insisting that nobody else be allowed to have the conversation within the larger community.