I just read the Google piece (permanent IPFS link: https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmYSj4Vyq5RW6jiYsiCJx3FiSc2nRiXz...) for the first time, after being aware of the outrage, and I found myself agreeing with the part about silencing the opposition. The piece is well-written and makes some good points, but the author is vilified just because he is expressing an opinion that goes against the popular political climate.
The line about "mandating increases for women’s representation in the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts" was especially interesting to me, as I can't easily dismiss that point.
Maybe we should engage in discussion, rather than moralizing over diversity, as the piece said?
The author of the OP (Yonatan Zunger) also recently published rather harsh critique of the Google employee at the center of the scandal. I rather felt that the Google employee was well within Zunger's notion of tolerance, and that it was Zunger who was out of line (excusing potential violence against the ousted employee, calling for his dismissal, etc.)
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Is this being reposted here today because of the latest scandal inside Google?
If so, do we really feel that the "manifesto", citing gender differences supported by scientific research, was intolerant?
Or is "intolerance" simply being redefined to mean "disagreement with a particular political agenda"?
I just read the Google piece (permanent IPFS link: https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmYSj4Vyq5RW6jiYsiCJx3FiSc2nRiXz...) for the first time, after being aware of the outrage, and I found myself agreeing with the part about silencing the opposition. The piece is well-written and makes some good points, but the author is vilified just because he is expressing an opinion that goes against the popular political climate.
The line about "mandating increases for women’s representation in the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts" was especially interesting to me, as I can't easily dismiss that point.
Maybe we should engage in discussion, rather than moralizing over diversity, as the piece said?
The author of the OP (Yonatan Zunger) also recently published rather harsh critique of the Google employee at the center of the scandal. I rather felt that the Google employee was well within Zunger's notion of tolerance, and that it was Zunger who was out of line (excusing potential violence against the ousted employee, calling for his dismissal, etc.)