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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by dguaraglia on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:12PM (#15023591)
What's your point? The same could be said of "conservative parties are a platform to neo-Nazis and white supremacists" it doesn't imply all conservatives are neo-Nazis and white supremacists, but... "the implication."
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by nailer on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:23AM (#15025570)
My point is that you wrote:

> the memo makes a whole case... how "leftists" are violent.

Which isn't true.

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by dguaraglia on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:02PM (#15032482)
So you don't think that singling out "leftist violence" in events where there were "alt-right violence" is choosing one side?

Or accusing "PC authoritarians" of stifling diversity of opinion? (violence is not just punching people)

Or accusing "the Left" of denying science regarding biological differences between individuals? (there's a huge difference between "taking with a grain of salt, considering there's a lot of societal factors that might play a bigger role" and "denying")

Damore does a really good job of adding a lot of disclaimers and caveat emptors around a lot of his arguments, but he really didn't put that much effort into hiding his derision for "the Left."

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by nailer on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:03AM (#15035562)
You still haven't acknowledged that you wrote something that has since been proven incorrect. I'm reluctant to continue the conversation because of that, but:

> So you don't think that singling out "leftist violence" in events where there were "alt-right violence" is choosing one side?

James's discussion of left violence is because Google is a left wing company.

If Google was a right wing company, then saying "Google has mainly right wing politics but has avoided the violence associated with far right groups" would indeed by apt.

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by weberc2 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:25PM (#15024737)
Those are different statements. The memo didn't say "liberal parties are a platform to authoritarians and antifascists". If it had, I would agree with your characterization. The strawman arguments in this drama are staggering. I guess Damore couldn't have been all wrong if his critics depend on mischaracterizations and other fallacies.