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by ankushnarula 3046 days ago
I read it. And I'm even more skeptical now:

> ~ statements about immutable traits linked to sex — such as women's heightened neuroticism and men's prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution — were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment, notwithstanding~ effort to cloak~ comments with "scientific" references and analysis, and notwtihstanding "not all women" disclaimers.

"Effort to cloak" and quotation marks around "scientific" are giving something away about the author.

> Moreover, the Charging Party reasonably should have known that the memorandum would likely be disseminated further, even beyond the workplace.

Damore "reasonably should have known" someone else was going to violate workplace confidentiality and code of conduct by leaking the document to the media? This seems like a failure of the employer not the employee.

> Once the memorandum was shared publicly, at least two female engineering candidates withdrew from consideration and explicitly named the memo as their reason for doing so.

This is the evidentiary component of the argument - which pivots on the not-so-reasonable "reasonably should have known" assertion.