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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by verroq on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:33PM (#16099484)
1. Except he never even said women on average are worse. Secondly people being upset is not an argument against the truthiness of statement, no matter how problematic.

2. “How dare he question the effectiveness of affirmative action” is also not an argument.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by lukev on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:49PM (#16099676)
> Except he never even said women on average are worse.

That is literally the whole point of his memo, that women have a different (i.e, worse, in this context) statistical distribution of ability and inclination to the tech field.

> “How dare he question the effectiveness of affirmative action” is also not an argument.

Sure it is. His argument is structured as follows:

1. Negative effect Q is caused by both A and B. 2. We can't do anything about A. 3. Therefore we shouldn't do anything about B.

That's just bad reasoning.

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