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textgel | 4 years ago

> And yes, obviously people read it that way. He was fired because he wouldn't stop arguing about it, remember?

Various people keep claiming that but there doesn't appear to be any proof of it.

> People acting like sharing a "study" that [minorities] are intellectually inferior is just normal behavior for an engineer.

Quote the part where he says this.

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ggggtez|4 years ago

> quote

I don't need to read it for you. If you walked away from that and didn't notice that the entire thesis is that [minorities] are worse engineers than [majority] then you just didn't read it

And beyond that, it's a moot point, because even if you don't see it, plenty of other people read it that way. Enough people read it that way that he was fired for it. It doesn't matter which citation I make. It's been dissected by hundreds of people in excruciating detail. Go read one of those ready analyses for the gory details and citations. It will be more intellectually fulfilling than rehashing it here again

textgel|4 years ago

Oh isn't that convenient. The definitely racist memo full of racism has so much in it that it is somehow completely impossible to quote any section at all that contains it.

> And beyond that, it's a moot point, because even if you don't see it, plenty of other people read it that way. Enough people read it that way that he was fired for it.

Well you personally are absolutely certain that a document definitely contains racist statements despite being completely incapable of quoting even one. Seems this is an affliction that can affect quite a few people. Well seeing as that's the "logic" you can muster perhaps we should put some sort of protections in place to the shipping industry. After all quite a few people are adamant the world is flat and we don't want to see cruise liners falling off the edge of the world now do we.

browningstreet|4 years ago

> Enough people read it that way that he was fired for it.

Cause there are never culture-wide delusions?

Chris2048|4 years ago

Then, assuming they all agree with you, can you link to one of those people/analyses who quote the racist parts of the memo?

If this is being "rehash[ed] here again" it should be easy enough to find a quote from the previous it was "hashed", no?