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micahbright

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    Comment #15045689

    Go fuck yourself

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    Comment #15045687

    Go fuck yourself

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    Comment #15045682

    I'm angry you want to force me to contribute - you douche. I've been contributing to the poor my whole life

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    Comment #15043072

    I like how you turn a voluntary charitable contribution into forcing other people to pay. If you aren't poor, you should already be making contributions to the poor since you have …

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    Comment #15042995

    >Only if it's a king and you lay diagonally. Try a California King

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    Comment #15024684

    "It seemed like he cherry-picked research that agreed with his views and didn’t seek dissenting research or opinions before sending the document to internal Google groups." - The p…

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    Comment #15024647

    I'm sure you can come up with a better argument. Assuming men are sexist and that you have to prove yourself to them is plainly hypocritical.

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    Comment #15024587

    Fact: women and men have varying distributions in abilities and traits - due to biology Fact: women and men aren't distributed equally in tech and leadership. And your conclusion i…

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    Comment #15024552

    > why should any woman have to overcome the additional barrier of proving that she’s not like other women. Well, she only has to prove it to men that she assumes are sexist or inca…

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    Comment #15024512

    Furthermore, simply look for interviewers who tend to reject women and minorities more often. Remove them from the interviewer pool.

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    Comment #15000911

    The still existing pay gap for men and women, when women make 105% of what men make for the same job title and experience? You need to study more.

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    Comment #14996185

    So, for reference, after taxes a single person takes home what? $80k. That's about $6,666 per month, leaving $2666 after paying rent. That's not including food. Also for reference,…

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    Comment #14996133

    >Seriously, the evidence is quite clear that this attitude is complete nonsense and only works for people that have certain advantages already. Ahem... citation needed

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    Comment #14979732

    Interesting perspective, but: >I’m not remotely surprised, however, that Damore naturally assumes the differences between typically female and male traits mean that men are more sk…

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    Comment #14979638

    >but I'm pretty sure everyone who agrees with that rant probably thinks it's just because of some supposed biological reason. I sense someone is still operating from the ignorance …

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    Comment #14975530

    Ironic, coming at the heels of Google firing someone for being "anti-diversity".

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    Comment #14968818

    So, to bring things full circle: Are you saying it's necessary or desirable to lower the bar for people to fill quotas, however, when someone writes something that you obviously ha…

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    Comment #14965616

    > Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. You're saying this implies …

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    Comment #14964653

    > At what point does saying things ... starts becoming 'creating a hostile work environment'? Certainly well known, supported, and referenced scientific facts, are not creating a h…

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    Comment #14964617

    It's weird, but this is all pretty well known stuff in the fields from which he refers. And, as obsessed as we are with instilling diversity in everything , why even common people …

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    Comment #14964528

    >and then present the conclusions that asians in professional basketball perform worse than others (exactly what this individual attempted to do with women) Could you quote exactly…

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    Comment #14964483

    > Employment isn't a protected right. Nice - you just proved that diversity programs are unnecessary with far fewer words than James Damore.

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    Comment #14951885

    "But, you're wrong. Far more men than women are perpetrators of domestic violence, and far more women than men are the victims of domestic violence. This is true for crimes of sexu…

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    Comment #14944732

    http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-... But like I said - if you use funding to report violence against men, you won't ever get any more funding. So, you ca…

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    Comment #14943799

    According to Dr. B. H. Hoff's (2012, National Study CDC/DOJ) Report on the National Violence Against Women Survey (notice there's no report on violence against men as anyone who sp…