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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by jbob2000 on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:51PM (#16098895)
It was more about the timing. The memo came shortly after Trump was elected, when many women and minorities were feeling defeated. It was not the climate to try and hold reasoned debate.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by stillhere on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:11PM (#16099168)
In my experience the left was not capable of having reasoned debate even before the election. They prefer to shut it down.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by lurr on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:35PM (#16100829)
On what topic?
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by haihaibye on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:48PM (#16102803)
That humans aren't blank slates.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by lurr on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:25PM (#16103354)
If you're talking about Damore then I believe that's less about what was said and more about how it was stated.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by haihaibye on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:06PM (#16103522)
The context was "the left .. not capable of having reasoned debate even before the election. They prefer to shut it down."

Pre-election a similar thing happened to James Watson and Larry Summers - eg here is shutting down conversation about humans not being blank slates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/us/harvard-chief-defends-h...

"When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill," Dr. Hopkins said.

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