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Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by thedevil on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:23AM (#16383762)
> actually jewish-marxists plots

Where did you see the word "Jewish". I didn't see it when I read the text, it's not in the relevant footnote, and I did a search and didn't find it.

Regarding the Marxist part: I'm not an expert on this but I believe it's called "critical theory" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory.

Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by UncleMeat on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:56AM (#16383967)
"Cultural marxism" and "marxism" are different things. One was a conspiracy theory with anti-semitic roots and one is a framework of academic inquiry. Guess which one damore mentions.
Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by anon12345690 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:33AM (#16383514)
I've never seen anyone interpret any of that. Also has nothing to do with civil rights but was talking about men and women liking different things, so forcing them in equal ratios does more harm than good.

What exactly didnt make sense to you with that?

Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by ZeroGravitas on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:37AM (#16383537)
You should read the memo. Apparently lots of people just skimmed it, or read a summary. Your sibling comment quotes the exact footnote text where he references the popular anti-semitic conspiracy theory about "cultural marxism"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marx...

"The Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that William S. Lind in 2002 gave a speech to a Holocaust denial conference on the topic of Cultural Marxism. In this speech Lind noted that all the members of The Frankfurt School were "to a man, Jewish", but it is reported that Lind claims not to question whether the Holocaust occurred and suggests he was present in an official capacity for The Free Congress Foundation "to work with a wide variety of groups on an issue-by-issue basis""

Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by marrs on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:45AM (#16383897)
So being critical of critical theory is anti-semitic now? How very convenient!
Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by aaron-lebo on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:26AM (#16383486)
He comes off as a reactionary, for sure. Before someone calls out you for strawmanning, he does go there:

Communism promised to be both morally and economically superior to capitalism, but every attempt became morally corrupt and an economic failure. As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but now the oppressor is the “white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy.”

His entire memo is a distillation of reactionary talking points. That overall impression rather than any single argument is probably what pissed off a lot of his coworkers because these battles are much older than him.