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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by mejari on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:42PM (#15023403)
You can throw buzzwords designed to shut down discussion at me all you want, that's irrelevant. He claims his goal was to have a dialogue, the fact is that he chose a very poor way of doing that. Either his goals aren't what he claims or he misunderstood how to accomplish them.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:08AM (#15024877)
Considering this is one of the most explosively discussed topics on HN and in the industry I would say he's been wildly successful at starting a discussion.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by mejari on Thursday August 17, 2017 @08:43PM (#15042471)
I can start a discussion about racism in the US by going on TV and yelling the n-word, that doesn't mean that I did a good job of opening a constructive dialogue.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by smallnamespace on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:10PM (#15023929)
In all fairness, we it did at least provoke an internal debate, e.g. this discussion.