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by bitmunk 1320 days ago
Damore was (with a lot of benefit of the doubt) totally clueless. Sure, he'll talk about how he thinks that discrimination is bad, and how he doesn't approve of sexism. He turns around and says that women are just neurotic and "more people focused", based on suspect evidence.

Of course you will point out that he was juts talking about the population, and reducing people top that is very bad mkay. He is totally not talking about the fine gals at Google! I could believe that he believes this, but the end result is that the 20% of Blind that is just misogynist assholes get more brazen.

Manu (lightly!) criticized his company with lighthearted cartoons. Demore in practice called 30% of his coworkers neurotic weaklings.

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> are just neurotic

His claim was that women on average score higher in neuroticism of the Big Five personality traits. Very different from "just neurotic".

> suspect evidence

The psychometric stuff seems pretty solid to me. Are you a science denier?

There’s no reasoning with these people. They’re buck broken to the core.