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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by wyclif on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:12AM (#16411478)
This is false. Damore did not get fired "because he thinks women are inferior" which is a simplistic, uninformed, and cartoonish version of the controversy. Damore was fired by Google for writing about scientifically supported sex differences and the social ramifications of those differences:

https://youtu.be/agU-mHFcXdw

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by salvar on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:26AM (#16413030)
Brushing all of this off as "scientifically supported sex differences" is quite simplistic, uninformed, and cartoonish by itself.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by wyclif on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:28AM (#16418955)
Brushing all of what off? The controversy itself? No, that's not what I did at all. I recognise that it's controversial; I simply don't think most people commenting on it have read Damore's memo, especially if "women are inferior to men" is the mangled message they managed to extract from his writings.
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