Please don't start this flamewar for the hundredth, at least, time. It's predictable and predictably nasty, the two things we most need to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This whole thread is a dumpster fire.

Sadly most even remotely political topics have started to turn into one, even on HN.

It's getting to the point where I wish moderators would just downrank such topics to position 20+ or outright ban them front the frontpage.

Or at least slap some clear "POLITICAL" tag on it and give users a filter option.

Can you link to where he said that as specifically as possible? I have read his paper and it doesn't say that.

Is it simpler but less civil to just to call out an entirely false representation of Damore’s position, than to entertain it asking for evidence?

The hope is that people who are in good faith will look for the evidence and through their failure to find it come to change their views.

Why should this opinion (just for the sake of argument assuming that it is, which I don’t think) have any effect on his employment status if there were otherwise no problems?