[orwin]

And he based some of his example on "facts" tht were debunked in the 70s. In fact i think i remember one of his argument was so easily recognisable as debunked that i thought "Well, writting a paper on sociology without having ever read sociology papers, who taught this guy?". It's not even Donning-kruger, because he did not even had the basics.

I mean, come on, if it was a paper in any other field, even economy, people here at HN would have either ignored him or called him out.

Anyway he was dumb and should not have been fired (unless this essay looked like his work at Google).

[guelo]

The point of my downvoted comment is that Damore is not a good example of censored speech. You guys are on here discussing the essay because it is famous. Millions of people read it. Not sure why I was downvoted for pointing that out except that there seems to be a cult of defending the guy.

[meruru]

Millions read it only because of the backlash, but what about all the people who didn't speak up because of the fear of getting abused by angry mobs and fired? You can't pretend a censorship attempt isn't one just because it backfired and failed.

[guelo]

Maybe there's also an effect where people try to be controversial in order to get attention, because it plays in to a narrative that makes a lot people feel better about themselves because they find someone to blame for their problems. Don't you think?