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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by 013a on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:56PM (#16098967)
The document went through multiple layers of abstraction. Very few people actually read it. Instead, some news outfit reported on it relatively accurately, then a less scrupulous outfit wanted clicks so they sensationalize it, then a third party reads both of those articles and averages their opinion on it somewhere in the middle. Repeat. As the information becomes more popular, we get sponsored snap stories and Facebook news box summarizations that are even more inaccurate, based on bad interpretations and abstracting away so much content that the information is useless. Radical leftists enter the picture and distort it even more to accomplish their own political ends. No one reads the actual article.

Its two problems our industry literally created: Sensationalist click farming and information overload. Our industry does not take these problems seriously enough. Damore was fired because of the outrage, not because of the article, but the outrage was manufactured by a sensationalist click machine and information overload culture literally championed by the company he was fired from.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by lurr on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:33PM (#16100810)
> Very few people actually read it.

You need to learn that people can have a different opinion then you, having read the same document.

> Damore was fired because of the outrage, not because of the article, but the outrage was manufactured by a sensationalist click machine and information overload culture literally championed by the company he was fired from.

Correct, and that's why his lawsuit is BS. He caused outrage both externally and internally. You had an employee that others would refuse to work with.

Of course he was fired.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by 013a on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @10:48AM (#16106990)
There is nothing in my comment to suggest I hold the opinion that everyone who has a positive opinion about what happened didn't read the document. Rather, I just stated a fact: Very few people read it, relative to the number of people who have opinions on it.

His lawsuit is not BS; you should try reading the court filing. He has multiple examples of Google HR officially condoning systemic racism and sexism. Who knows how it will come out, but he has a case.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by flukus on Monday January 08, 2018 @09:32PM (#16103043)
> Correct, and that's why his lawsuit is BS. He caused outrage both externally and internally.

How did he cause an external outrage? Did he leak the document to the press? Did he speak to the press at all?

There are quite a few people to blame for the external outrage, but he is not one of them.

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