Re Google Engineer Fired or Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan () gmail com>
> Date: August 15, 2017 at 5:08:55 PM EDT
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Google Engineer Fired or Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero
>
> Prof Farber,
> [for IP, if you so deem]
> Damore wasn't canned for the views he holds, just that he chose to express them in the medium he did. I work in 
> Silicon Valley. While I suspect my colleagues are broadly left-of-centre, I don't know for sure and I don't care if 
> my boss voted for Trump, donated to prop 8, or supports putting my bones into Trump's border wall. Would it worry me 
> if they did? Perhaps. Would it disturb me if they were to discriminate against me for a silly reason like the colour 
> (or lack thereof) of my skin? Yes. The action Damore was calling for in public is what got him fired, not the views 
> he held. -- H
>
> > On 15 August 2017 at 09:36, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 15, 2017, at 12:33 PM, John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dave, thought your list might find this post interesting. John Horgan
> > >
> > > Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn’t a Hero
> > >  
> > > There is nothing admirable about a white male arguing that white males are biologically more fit for jobs in tech.
> > >  
> > > I’m on vacation, trying to ignore the world’s madness, but I just spotted “Why I Was Fired by Google” in The Wall 
> > > Street Journal, by software engineer James Damore, and I can’t let it pass. Damore was canned for a memo in which 
> > > he attributes “the gender gap in tech” to biological differences between men and women. 81 percent of Google’s 
> > > employees are male.
> > >  
> > > In his memo, Damore says females are on average less ambitious and more prone to “neuroticism” than males and “have 
> > > a stronger interest in people rather than things.” Damore claims these male-female differences are “exactly what we 
> > > would predict from an evolutionary psychology perspective.” That is, the differences are innate, bred into us by 
> > > natural selection...
> > > ​
> > > For more see https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/google-engineer-fired-for-sexist-memo-isnt-a-hero/
> >
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