Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by coldtea on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:23AM
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Of course they did. When the press is on a witch hunt, and somebody is made to be the scum of the earth, people want to distance themselves from them. And if they hear what said person said framed as an "anti-diversity manifesto" (as if that was what it was), "sexist" etc, they would obviously say they "disagree with his interpretations of their research".
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by j2kun on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @10:21AM
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So you're questioning the integrity of the scientists Damore cited...to give more credit to his argument. Neat how that works.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by coldtea on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @10:53AM
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No, I'm mentioning a common reaction during witch hunting / moral panic / etc scenarios.
(Plus I don't consider people as solid blocks. One's reaction towards the media is not representative of the integrity of their work, one's family life is not representative of their public persona, and so on. Galileo bowed to the Inquisition, but his work is still solid).
Doubly so if, as it often happens, what they were asked to comment on were not the writings themselves in full, but a straw-man summarisation of them by journalists and related pundits (on which everybody seems to argue about).