Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by nailer on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:42PM
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I read the full memo ( https://medium.com/@Cernovich/full-james-damore-memo-uncenso...) and it didn't seem like that at all. Saying that discrimination exists but differences in gender representation aren't necessarily caused by discrimination didn't seem like 'you're all wrong', not do the 'suggestions' seem like something someone writing authoritatively would make. Not a female engineer so appreciate I may be missing something - what is it?
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by lowbloodsugar on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:22PM
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The first page or so is not about gender diversity, but about "Left biases" and "Right biases" and the statement that "the media, and Google lean left".
He then follows with "Google's left bias has created a politically correct monoculture".
So the difference is between these two statements:
a. I believe X, and
b. You are all leftists. Leftists believe Y. Y is wrong. The answer is actually X.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by nailer on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:20AM
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Saying Google's culture leans left doesn't mean everyone in Google is a leftist. Nor does acknowledging bias imply that people with that bias is wrong - just biased, Eg looking at a specific part of a larger picture. There's a difference.