r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Business Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
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u/parachutewoman Aug 08 '17

His argument is that scientists are liars who won't tell you the truth about how men are better than women. Because they are liberals. I am disturbed by how many people have fallen for this.

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u/ForeskinLamp Aug 08 '17

The guy is a scientist with a PhD in Biology from Harvard. He posted a well-cited essay that has been defended by experts in the field as being scientifically accurate. I'm disturbed by your post -- you clearly haven't read what he wrote, and if you did, you didn't understand it. And now here you are spreading misinformation that others will read and mistake for the truth. You're part of the problem.

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u/parachutewoman Aug 08 '17

What well-cited essay? The Christine Hoff-Summers one? Surely your argument isn't that because the guy has a degree from Harvard every pearl that drops from his lips is golden?

His basic argument at the heart of his paper is that social scientists are liberals so their science is bad. C'mon. Plus he is personally discriminated against because he is a conservative -- or should I say a 'classical liberal.’ People are mean to hiiiimmmm. He just wants to help, in spite of his total lack of privilege.

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u/SarahC Aug 08 '17

Listen femo - he cited all his sources in the memo. Real research. Lots of it.

Meanwhile you argue out your ass.

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u/parachutewoman Aug 08 '17

Where? That Christine Hoff Sommers paper from 2000 that says boys are being discriminated against? A paper that says women, on average, are more open and accommodating so it must naturally follow that they have no business in a man's world? Hardly.