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by footlose_3815 2175 days ago
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?
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ThA0x2 2174 days ago
>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.

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friendlybus 2175 days ago
It was scientifically sourced and he did not spread it himself, others did that on 'his behalf' whilst also stripping out the sources.
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footlose_3815 2174 days ago
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.
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friendlybus 2174 days ago
Uhhh, no? He didn't say that. The comments you're giving are grasping at straws for a negative interpretation of his memo.
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NotSammyHagar 2163 days ago
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?
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