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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by weberc2 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:08PM (#15043233)
Yeah, the outrage is fake or they wouldn't have to invent statements he didn't make. Fake outrage is pervasive among progressives. It mostly spreads as ideology. It seems to be attractive to exaggerate one's hardships to amplify the perceptions of one's accomplishments while diminishing the accomplishments of those you hate.

Regarding the response received, I was talking about the firing and public flogging. And Google created the headlines for firing him so questionably.

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by weberc2 on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:50PM (#15047767)
The public flogging bit was figurative. You're mistaken about my claims, but since you're resorting to ad hominems, I feel pretty good about my case. I think you're more determined to have an unproductive conversation than I am to salvage it, so I'll let you have the last word, but I won't stick around to read it.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by richmarr on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:55PM (#15049655)
> You're mistaken about my claims, but since you're resorting to ad hominems

At no point have I "resorted to ad hominems", nor do I see anything that could have been misunderstood that way.

Perhaps you're referring to when I asked you to differentiate your position from partisan mud-slinging?

Note that I made that request after you'd written a diatribe about how the left manufactures feigned offence to silence its critics. And now you're upset that I'm using ad hominem attacks?

Fascinating.

> I feel pretty good about my case

You haven't made a case. A case involves making a point and then supporting it using evidence, which at no point have you done. Instead you've argued using rhetoric and unsubstantiated claims, which is a very different thing.