[textgel]

I don't really get what you're arguing? This seems to be just semantics on a 3rd party comment on a forum.

> The text preemptively claims that people will reject it because they are too politically correct.

The text was right.

> From the beginning it was a slanted criticism of Google’s hiring practices.

Yes, how does this relate to the original point?

[UncleMeat]

> The text was right.

Weird how a lot of academics don't agree.

[textgel]

Quite probably. They're welcome to disagree about the reality we are literally discussing right now, just as there were no doubt members that disagreed with the realities outlined in the letter, and in taking part helped cause the situation (that according to you they are denying) in the first place.

[commandlinefan]

But just as many academics do.

[Chris2048]

A lot more journalist don't agree too, which is perhaps why those academics got so much airtime.

Even in the legal system "expert testimony" can be a dubious process - in the court of press-media there is no bar to cherry-picking.