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by compcoffee 2815 days ago
Come on. What is the point of exaggerating his argument so? There are some holes in it without having to resort to an utter strawman.
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The holes in his argument didn’t justify his termination, however. Not sure if some folks are too attached to that outcome, but the accusations against Damore are beyond parody.
I’m not saying he should be fired. I’m saying that it’s a misrepresentation to say that he only claimed that there are differences between the sexes in aggregate.
I wasn't actually speaking about you specifically, but where did Damore "go beyond claiming that there are differences between the sexes in aggregate" and specifically "women are less capable of [Damore's] job"? And how do you square that with the memo's disclaimers that he's speaking about population level differences? I think I've read that thing a dozen times now to try to find anything that resembles the claims Damore is accused of making, and I can never seem to find them...