[PricelessValue]

> Then he started retweeting Breitbart articles and selling "Goolag" t-shirts and threw his credibility out the window

What does that have to do with his credibility or his arguments? His arguments stand on its own merits. Externalities has no bearing on argument. If he said 1+1=2 and then retweeted a breitbart article, does that mean 1+1 no longer equal 2?

[jakelazaroff]

Given that Breitbart, Stephen Molynieux, etc, all basically support the least charitable interpretation of the memo (that women are genetically less predisposed to engineering), his active association with them makes the claim that the memo was a good-faith attempt to improve diversity rather hard to swallow.

Examples:

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/14/haidt-google-memo-c...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/15/heres-why...

[PricelessValue]

> Given that Breitbart, Stephen Molynieux, etc, all basically support the least charitable interpretation of the memo (that women are genetically less predisposed to engineering)

So? Are you saying you disagree? Then state your case.

> his active association with them makes the claim that the memo was a good-faith attempt to improve diversity rather hard to swallow.

Why does it make it hard to swallow? What does damore stating a fact that women being more predisposed to more social careers rather than engineering have anything to do with his stance on diversity? Are you saying that men should be forced out of engineering and women should be forced into it?

So should we take over norway, get rid of women's rights and force the norwegian women to go into engineering?

> http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/14/haidt-google-memo-c....

That link is about an NYU professor who says data and analysis backs up damore's claim.

> http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/15/heres-why....

A lot of good points there.

[dbnoch]

> What does damore stating a fact that women being more predisposed to more social careers rather than engineering have anything to do with his stance on diversity?

This memo only helps this narrative of 'being predisposed' and that is the issue we are trying to get at.

From your last article: "Ladies, apparently, find the aggressively competitive nature of these subjects too “uninviting,” so they drop out." So many assumptions in those articles that I had to stop reading. Please look up logical fallacies.

[pokemongoaway]

So regardless of the facts here, you're on the bandwagon of "guilt by association." That is, "we caught you being friends with communists so we're going to take your job away"?

[jakelazaroff]

I can't edit my original comment anymore, but I'd like to clarify that I mistook the claim of the comment to which I was replying as "association doesn't imply Damore espoused a genetic predisposition between men and women with regard to engineering", which is something other commenters are making in this thread.

I'm not on the bandwagon of "guilt by association"; Damore's claims are ridiculous on their face.

[pokemongoaway]

Which claim of his is the most ridiculous?