[ThA0x2]

FWIR:

Justine Sacco still suffers from severe PTSD and has to attend regular counselling.

Adria Richards fell off the face of the planet, was chronically unemployed for a while, then finally ended up at a no name company, probably making peanuts compared to where she was.

James Damore was also similarly unemployed for a while, was in several lawsuits with Google, and claims to be working at a start-up, but he may also just be freelancing since he's effectively unemployable.

Those are all long term consequences, so, you're effectively wrong here.

[footlose_3815]

James Damore threw away an engineering job at Google with a long, generalized, and internally-shared rant about women, listing off their "Qualities". He then tried to start a lawsuit making it about his politics, which never went anywhere.

Why is there sympathy for this man?

[ThA0x2]

>He then tried to start a lawsuit making it about his politics, which never went anywhere.

Settled out of court for a non-disclosed amount. That's somewhere, so, you're wrong.

>Why is there sympathy for this man?

Data-driven adults place a high value on facts and truth. Virtue signalers don't.

[friendlybus]

It was scientifically sourced and he did not spread it himself, others did that on 'his behalf' whilst also stripping out the sources.

[footlose_3815]

He sourced things from scientific journals, but he pieced them together to fit a narrative that he knows better about what women want. It wasn't a good argument.

[friendlybus]

Uhhh, no? He didn't say that. The comments you're giving are grasping at straws for a negative interpretation of his memo.

[NotSammyHagar]

The facts of his case are he went on bizarre and unsupported rant against women. Are you going to support the thesis that women are inherently intellectually inferior and that hiring practices that encourage hiring people from diverse groups are enforcing intellectual idiocacy?

[joshuamorton]

Adria Richards is actually an interesting case. She was "cancelled" for cancelling someone else. One of the major criticisms of the Harper's letter is that people speaking out about injustice have historically faced severe retribution, and that the recent concern about cancellation is only in response to this retributory cannon being pointed toward those "in power".

I can't see the people who are today concerned about Cancellation standing up for Adria Richards were that to happen again today. See the recent argument between Yann LeCun and Timnit Gebru for a somewhat analogous situation.

The backlash against the person perceived as trying to cancel someone else was much greater than the initial "lash", so to speak.

> James Damore was also similarly unemployed for a while

Not a very long time though. And the lawsuits were ones he chose to file.

[ThA0x2]

>Not a very long time though.

It was for a long time. He may actually still be unemployed.

>And the lawsuits were ones he chose to file.

No one said otherwise.