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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by chisleu on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:59AM (#15025044)
Most importantly to me, it was written directly as a response to a request for comments on the subject. People made it out to be a rant someone just threw out there, but it wasn't. It was also published a month before, and internal polls at Google found it to be non-offensive.

That doesn't stop people from whipping up mass hysteria about it.

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by weberc2 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @06:59PM (#15032045)
Personally, I like how the criticisms have shifted from outrage over statements Damore never made (and contexts in which he never posted) to sharp criticisms of his "unprofessional delivery" as though a post on a discussion board needed to be better than most published academic content. I can't frankly imagine a more conciliatory delivery. Of course, we mustn't blame the folks who are cultivating faux outrage; this is clearly James' fault... /s