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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by tracker1 on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:23PM (#20619148)
Worth mentioning TFA is wrong about the Damore memo... it wasn't suggesting that women are less disposed to be "good engineers" only that they are less disposed to seek out a career in engineering to begin with. Quality isn't a part of it. But that doesn't fit an SJW narrative.
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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by JSavageReal on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:20PM (#20621131)
Was going to mention this as well. Vice deliberately misrepresenting the point of his memo and explicitly mentioning that it's "unscientific". Well no sh, it's a memo. I wonder if there's an agenda there?
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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by xenadu02 on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:01PM (#20619536)
That's not even remotely true. I've addressed it many times here in the HN comments. I'm just tired of repeatedly giving the same explanation over and over.
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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by tracker1 on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:34PM (#20619277)
TFA mentions specifically "good engineers" and the point wasn't about quality, it was about the overall pool. That's all I was saying. It's about the false framing.
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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by sfkdjf9j3j on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:10PM (#20619620)
Here's an extremely detailed refutation that was published about two years ago: https://medium.com/@tweetingmouse/the-truth-has-got-its-boot...

It's on the first page of google search results for "refutation of james demore memo", as are several other similar pieces.

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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by mieseratte on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:38PM (#20619914)
That article is just rife with attacks on Damore’s character based on speculation and hearsay, and semantic games.
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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by sfkdjf9j3j on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:02PM (#20621727)
No it isn't? Which sections are you talking about?
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