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Jabanga
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Comment #14975967
>There is no reason to expect that their subset of the population should conform to a general population skew. Absurd. Differences in the general population will translate into dif…
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Comment #14974976
There is nothing to debate against, unfortunately. If I'm being repetitive, it's because the justifications for the firing are so utterly baseless. Also, if the upvote/downvote rat…
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Comment #14974949
>what difference does the statistical differences found between genders in the general population matter for any small subset of that population? With all due respect, this is an a…
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Comment #14974889
The EPI is heavily funded by labour unions which have a major stake in the continued acceptance of central tenets of Marxist/postmodernist ideology, like the existence of race/gend…
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Comment #14974510
>Were it offered merely as a factor which explained some subset of the gender imbalances in STEM, that would be more reasonable. Yes that is a more accurate construction. For the s…
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Comment #14974421
The article that is linked here is written by a PhD in sexual neuroscience, and defends the claims made in the memo as scientifically valid. Instead of responding to the memo, and …
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Comment #14974260
It seems people are fiddling and being their agreeable selves while Rome burns. A Google engineer was just fired, with deafening applause from a multitude of voices, for penning a …
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Comment #14974075
>You're correct, it is a hateful, sexist comment, and I won't take it back or apologize for it. Then you're choosing to not be constructive. Sexism and racism are not constructive,…
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Comment #14974054
They could very plausibly explain the differences in the number of men who write software relative to women. The only explanation is absolutely not "systemic discrimination against…
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Comment #14973987
>STEM fields, especially applied rather than theoretical ones, involve people as much as things This doesn't negate my point. You're correct that I oversimplified: some STEM fields…
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Comment #14973895
Of course there's more to consider than evolutionary psychology.. No one disputes that. What many postmodernists, especially feminists, dispute, is that evolutionary psychology has…
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Comment #14973533
Why? What will I learn?
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Comment #14973480
>The first bullet point is "women are more people oriented". No, the first bullet point is: >Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things Which is true, and …
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Comment #14973421
Notice how you're not actually agreeing or disagreeing with my assertion. You're simple trying to justify the postmodernist take on truth.
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Comment #14973383
I did not say that you're a "hateful, dogmatic, sexist racist". I said that postmodernism and feminism are. Very few people subscribe to all of the beliefs of a particular ideologi…
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Comment #14972070
You're confirming my statement: truth to post modernism doesn't exist as the term is conventionally defined. It is only one particular group's frame of reference and therefore only…
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Comment #14971901
Can you at least admit that your initial comment: that he "defends discrimination against women", is unfounded?
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Comment #14971882
"people like you" another hateful comment and personal attack.
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Comment #14971781
>These 2 lines essentially state that as women are more interested in people, there are some roles they might not be able to perform. That's absurd. You're not even interpreting hi…
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Comment #14971765
Postmodernists and feminists are generally very critical toward evolutionary psychology and hostile toward its scholars, so you're actually supporting my point.
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Comment #14971689
That is the postmodern anti-science belief, which assumes that truth is not really truth. It is just a device used in power struggles between identity groups. It's so extreme that …
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Comment #14971644
No, postmodernism and feminism are rooted in Marxist ideology. Marxist intellectuals shifted to postmodernism in the 1970s after it became impossible to deny that Marxist doctrine …
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Comment #14969697
Do you believe these comments defend discrimination against women? I'm trying to understand how one could see it that way. I see both of these statements as unquestionably true, an…
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Comment #14969682
This is toxic postmodernist/feminist dogma. It frames everything through a lens of identity power struggles. Therefore, whether an argument is scientific and factual is secondary t…