- Thread starter
- #21
6. “That real-world facts are no obstacle to advancing these ideological slanders was demonstrated in July 2017, when a Google engineer named James Damore wrote an internal memo addressing the assumptions behind such programs, specifically the claim that women were blocked from entering STEM fields because of patriarchal oppression. His memo, which he called “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” examined the many factors besides possible anti-female bias that might lie behind the lower number of women programmers.
Studies show, for example, that women are generally more interested in people, while men are more interested in things, which could account for some of the difference. Moreover, the generous incentives provided by Google, the National Science Foundation, and universities to lure women into engineering, along with the general left-wing attitudes of Google employees as revealed in their subsequent attacks on Damore, provide strong evidence that choice rather than gender discrimination is the decisive factor in determining women’s presence—or lack thereof— in STEM fields.
Google’s response to Damore’s internal memo was to fire him…”
Daniel Greenfield, “The Google Gulag: The Internet Cannot Remain in the Hands of a Corporation That Hates Free Speech,”
FrontPageMag, August 9, 2017,
https:// www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267519/google-gulag- daniel-green-field
Free will and independent decision-making is the real reason......not oppression, sexism, xenophobia, etc., etc........
Studies show, for example, that women are generally more interested in people, while men are more interested in things, which could account for some of the difference. Moreover, the generous incentives provided by Google, the National Science Foundation, and universities to lure women into engineering, along with the general left-wing attitudes of Google employees as revealed in their subsequent attacks on Damore, provide strong evidence that choice rather than gender discrimination is the decisive factor in determining women’s presence—or lack thereof— in STEM fields.
Google’s response to Damore’s internal memo was to fire him…”
Daniel Greenfield, “The Google Gulag: The Internet Cannot Remain in the Hands of a Corporation That Hates Free Speech,”
FrontPageMag, August 9, 2017,
https:// www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267519/google-gulag- daniel-green-field
Free will and independent decision-making is the real reason......not oppression, sexism, xenophobia, etc., etc........