What an incredibly intellectually lazy way of attempting to deconstruct that manifesto this is! > 1.I’m not going to spend any length of time on (1); if anyone wishes to provide details as to how nearly every statement about gender in that entire document is actively incorrect "This is wrong, I don't have to tell you why" is a pitiful statement in and of itself, and perhaps more importantly, is not an argument. The a…
Ad-hominems aside... That's clearly not an ad hominem -- it's not even close to the definition! And, the rest of what you said is even more incorrect. Fortunately, no one is obligated to spend their time to refute your bullshit.
About This Googler's Manifesto
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#12What an incredibly intellectually lazy way of attempting to deconstruct that manifesto this is! > 1.I’m not going to spend any length of time on (1); if anyone wishes to provide details as to how nearly every statement about gender in that entire document is actively incorrect "This is wrong, I don't have to tell you why" is a pitiful statement in and of itself, and perhaps more importantly, is not an argument. The a…
Ad-hominems aside... That's clearly not an ad hominem -- it's not even close to the definition! And, the rest of what you said is even more incorrect. Fortunately, no one is obligated to spend their time to refute your bullshit.
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#14The easiest way to see the article is just fighting a strawman of the original manifesto is to notice the article never directly quotes the manifesto.
To quote the original manifesto would be to normalize hatred.
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#16> What you just did was incredibly stupid and harmful. You just put out a manifesto inside the company arguing that some large fraction of your colleagues are at root not good enough to do their jobs, and that they’re only being kept in their jobs because of some political ideas. The author seems to assume this is obviously false, and neatly avoids the fact that in many companies, industries, and academic settings, t…
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#17The easiest way to see the article is just fighting a strawman of the original manifesto is to notice the article never directly quotes the manifesto.
To quote the original manifesto would be to normalize hatred.
This logic seems an awful lot like a book-burning mentality.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I quote Hitler in a debate about world war 2, am I normalizing the Holocaust?
Yes
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#19Is there any other industry in which private companies shove their "values" down the throats of their employees in the manner we experience in tech?
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#20The easiest way to see the article is just fighting a strawman of the original manifesto is to notice the article never directly quotes the manifesto.
To quote the original manifesto would be to normalize hatred.