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Re:The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore by turtleofdeath on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:24PM (#15023666)
Right, and I get that your counterpoint is against the person above you. However, that doesn't change the context of Damore's argument, which is saying that interests may differ due to differences in cognitive ability and that the difference may help to explain the gender gap.

Those differences are well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition

And a lot people are ignoring the context, instead pulling straw men out of the text to fight, rather than arguing the substance of the memo itself, context included.

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Re:The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:29PM (#15023703)
> And a lot people are ignoring the context, instead pulling straw men out of the text to fight,

If its pulled out of the text, it's (by definition) not a straw man.

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Re:The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:44PM (#15023777)
No, a straw man is something that looks like the other person's position, but isn't, and is easier to defeat in an argument.

Can you pull out of the text something that is not the author's actual position? Of course you can. It happens all the time.

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