[jariel]

"You mean consequences for your behavior?"

Outrage mobs are by definition 'consequences for some behavior'.

But the implication that someone should be vilified globally for having an earnest and not entirely unreasonable intellectual opinion makes his responders an 'outrage mob'.

Damore had no malice, ill will, his opinion was made ostensibly for some positive will, among a relatively private group.

If he was beating his wife, then there'd be a legit consequence for his behavior right? And some outrage would be justified.

But that's obviously not the case.

The response is the most 'outrage mob imaginable', with people still 'outraging' themselves on HN years later.

[balls187]

> not entirely unreasonable intellectual opinion

Despite reasoning his point of view well, it does not mean it's right, healthy, or valid.

And while Sexism and Racism are not equal, there do parallel in many ways.

How different is his memo than writings that discuss how the Negroid is a lesser form of human species, and there for it's condition is justified?

Scientifically, there is very little, if anything, that differs between a man and woman performing a job in tech. Why then do women continually report about discriminatory behavior in the work place?

Are they just making things up?

[lliamander]

> Scientifically, there is very little, if anything, that differs between a man and woman performing a job in tech.

Thst wasn't the argument made. The argument wasn't about job performance, but job preference.

[jariel]

You are crossing streams.

This is not about whether Damore was 'right or wrong' - it's about whether he was within his right to make a reasonable statement and not get publicly murdered for it.

Also - your comment has also demonstrated the intellectual dishonestly against him by misrepresenting the thrust of his argument.

There are considerable differences between genders, this is not a scientifically controversial position, and in an entire 24 years of general upbringing, imbued with gendered differences and possibly marginal - but material - biological differences, is going to yield very different outcomes.

There are many fields in society that have unequal gender ratios and it's not remotely specific to 'tech'.

It's obviously a thorny subject, which requires some dispassionate thinking. We don't need people screaming 'Nazi' at the first hint that they might think someone, somewhere committed a 'thought crime' against their personal and very narrow view of the world.

This is the kind of bigotry that is not 'right, healthy or valid'.

The mob is much, much scarier than Damore.

[balls187]

> It's obviously a thorny subject, which requires some dispassionate thinking. We don't need people screaming 'Nazi' at the first hint that they might think someone, somewhere committed a 'thought crime' against their personal and very narrow view of the world.

Speaking of intellectual dishonesty...

"Women are just as equal as men" does not seem to be a very narrow view of the world.

> This is the kind of bigotry that is not 'right, healthy or valid'.

What bigotry is that--calling sexism for exactly what it is?