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The cherry picking of this article is extreme. A company chooses to not employ someone based on a multiple page essay and this article takes a sentence and trie
by ej_campbell 9y ago
The cherry picking of this article is extreme. A company chooses to not employ someone based on a multiple page essay and this article takes a sentence and tries to make it look ridiculous.
- Helloworldboy 9y agoYou should actually read the multi-page article. And not the version hacked apart by tech "journalists" to remove the citations.
- Niksko 9y agoCitations are worthless when the reasoning that is citing them is shoddy. If you cite things, it makes the facts that you're referencing true. It doesn't make the logic of your argument true.
- Helloworldboy 9y agoObviously it's appropriate to remove the citations from someone's work then, right? No bias there :^)
- insickness 9y agoWhat else from that essay was grevious enough to fire him?
- jonathankoren 9y agoThe whole thing made a textbook hostile workplace. He said the people around him only got their jobs because of their race or gender and were therefore incompetent.
- freedomben 9y agoIt's pretty clear you didn't actually read it. I didn't at first either because I trusted the sources I was reading to give me a fair summary. That was a mistake. I didn't necessarily agree with what he said, but it was nowhere near as bad as what 90% of sources were reporting.
- mikeash 9y agoI read it and I think it was just as bad as people said. It just happened to be stated in friendly, neutral-sounding language.
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- yawn3000 9y agoAgreed, Damore's essay was a rambling, illogical mess. Only revered by weak minds who'd already been fooled by alt-right ideology. He deserved to be fired. His conduct after his firing vindicated that decision too. The dullard even had his Twitter handle as "Fired For Truth", as if he'd written some incontrovertible work of brilliance, rather than the actual half-baked mess he spluttered up.