whitemale

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by whitemale 9y ago
> We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. You seem to only take issue with one side of the "ideological battle", it's almost like you just banned the account because someone said some
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by whitemale 9y ago
> False claims aren't conspiracy theories. Are you saying that conspiracy theories are all true? > I'm not sacrificing truth to point out your mistake. You are wasting 100% of your effort on arguing semantics instead of eng
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by whitemale 9y ago
I'm going by this definition: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspire Claiming that across the US women get paid 20% less than men, for doing exactly the same work with exactly the same qualifications with every
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by whitemale 9y ago
If my argument is "mistaken", why are you focusing on the language that I used instead of just disproving my argument? I would also be interested that if the gender wage gap is real and it is as believers describe it, how would yo
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by whitemale 9y ago
> People here might be more willing to respond to your question if you didn't refer to a highly researched Washington Post article as a conspiracy theory. People don't have to respond, trying to dodge the question with an appe
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by whitemale 9y ago
If this conspiracy theory would be true, companies would only hire women, because they are 20% cheaper. Why is this not happening?
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by whitemale 9y ago
> A colleague was groped. She didn't report it. What do you think should happen to people who grope other people? > A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers. What's the alternative? How in y
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by whitemale 9y ago
Ask yourself the following questions: - would you intentionally treat women badly? - are you responsible for the actions of other men?
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by whitemale 9y ago
> suggesting that we've not hit natural diversity levels yet. What is the natural level and how did you find it?
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by whitemale 9y ago
> The reason promoting diversity (e.g. in tech) is good is because there is a shortage of qualified people. Are you implying that for some reason we don't hire qualified women if there are no men to fill in the roles? Would love to
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Debating this memo is like debating about crime statistics every time a black person gets shot by the cops. There are people that understand the role social forces play in inequality, and there are those that don't know and don&#x
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Also, the article seems to think missing out some weak-ass graph and a link to wikipedia as irrefutable proof that this guy knows what he's talking about and everyone is out to misconstrue his words. Nope. You do realise that this
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Also, the article seems to think missing out some weak-ass graph and a link to wikipedia as irrefutable proof that this guy knows what he's talking about and everyone is out to misconstrue his words. Nope. You do realise that thi
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by whitemale 9y ago
> To me, that's a pretty extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary proof. The extraordinary claim here is that there are less women in tech due to sexism from men and we have yet to see the extraordinary evidence. > So do w
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by whitemale 9y ago
> train them to properly identify their own unconscious biases > not once have I seen an inferior female candidate picked over a superior male one because of a diversity initiative What if you have an unconscious bias and didn't
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by whitemale 9y ago
This makes me wonder if Google will at some point start introducing algorithms that will block search results that dare perpetuate that men and women are not totally equal biologically. The same justification they used to fire their employe
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by whitemale 9y ago
> through his memo, has created a hostile workplace for women at Google. Can you point out the part of his memo that created a hostile environment for women?
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by whitemale 9y ago
Stop nitpicking about pointless semantics.
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by whitemale 9y ago
Should people not be allowed to build a startup or a company where some groups of people might feel unwelcome?
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by whitemale 9y ago
I'm pretty sure if we go back long enough and stretch our imagination we'll find out that the nazis were also the result of video games. :)
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by whitemale 9y ago
Preamble: I am not defending the guy mentioned in the article, his only defense could be that he was drunk(not good enough imho). What about when at a nightclub? What about women who rely on easily misinterpret-able body language? What if t
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by whitemale 9y ago
That's a different kind of experience. If you would want to build race cars, most likely you would want to hire a person who can design race cars instead of people who know how to drive them. A man can be just as good at dealing with c
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by whitemale 9y ago
> A man's perspective on these issues is always going to be an academic rather than experiential one. So should we make decisions with "feelings" instead of rational logic?
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Not sure why we immediately need to jump to the trope that a more qualified male candidate would be passed over. This is the original piece comment we are talking about: > He needs to be replaced by a woman It's evident that t
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by whitemale 9y ago
Are you implying that men are incapable of those sensibilities?
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by whitemale 9y ago
What is your solution to this problem then?
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by whitemale 9y ago
> have gone to great lengths to accommodate women (as they should) Why should they put more effort to accommodate women than they do to accommodate men, isn't that sexist?
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by whitemale 9y ago
Like the gender wage gap? (invented by the left, turns out to be a conscious misinterpretation of statistics)
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by whitemale 9y ago
Can you elaborate on why you think it's a flamewar topic?
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by whitemale 9y ago
We need to start compiling list of these conferences so that people know what to boycott. When I go to an event like this I want to see the best, I don't care if all of the speakers are white males or gender fluid apache helicopters.

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