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Re:Google Sets Rules to Curtail Employee Debate by stcredzero on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:05PM (#17411869)
the problem is he was using it as a justification to argue that his female coworkers didn’t meet the same hiring bar, and that in general some just don’t make better engineers

That's not how I interpreted his memo, and I think the widespread emotionally wrought interpretation of his memo in that fashion reveals virulent groupthink. Didn't a large number of women not go to work because of induced "feels?"

You can a introduce hormones to a xy and watch it grow secondary sex characteristics.

That's strong evidence for at least a partial physiological basis of gender.

To say that the research is in and we know anything with any certainty is hubris of the highest order.

Then why would holding an opinion evoke such a strong response?

I invite you to really reflect and consider, are you sure we have equal oppertunity? Are you sure? If you are, then you’d be willing to switch places with a poor black woman, because you’d still end up where you are now right?

I dated a creole woman for 9 years and asked her to marry me. This last paragraph of yours speaks for itself, in terms of the presence or absence of ideological groupthink. If that poor black woman had the same cultural upbringing as my ex-girlfriend's maternal grandmother, then sure, why not?

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