I read the entire blog post and found nothing sexist or racist about it. For some reason people have come to think that any dissent of established liberal beliefs is sexist, racist or some other malady that requires re-education, shaming and finally termination. What happened to you fucking people. You used to be the cool kids, now you are the fucking right-wing prudes you once detested.
Are all of the assertions made in the post entirely perfect and accurate? I don’t know, but I do know one thing for sure, YOU DONT KNOW EITHER. Why deny the fact that women are biologically different than men and perhaps those biological differences create innate differences that cause women in general to pursue a slightly different path than men? Experiments with young chimpanzees show that male chimps tend to play with toys that encourage engineering other such constructive endeavors (bulldozers, building blocks, etc…), whereas female chimps tend to play with toys that bring out their natural inclination towards nurturing children (dolls, food finding etc…). These results do not force women down a different path, but the underlying biological processes that lead to these preferences do tend to nudge women one way and men the other.
Further, the author points out, correctly, that offering programs to improve the abilities and career placement of one group, while not offering it to another causes friction that is probably undermining whatever racial and sexual harmony exists in the company. If Person A is offered training but Person B cannot take part in that training, it creates animosity on both sides. Person B feels left out of a potentially valuable training program, while Person A may feel they are being given this opportunity, not because they are deserving, but because they are less capable than Person B. I would cite this growing sense of animosity as a major factor for why this memo was written in the first place.
You are afraid to let other people feel comfortable expressing their point of view. That to me is the beginning of totalitarianism. You are the Nazi here, not the blogger. You shame, shun and terminate anyone with a dissenting opinion. This will only work for so long and then you will have to figure out how to ENGAGE intellectually with people who hold differing points of view. How can you claim to be tolerant when you cannot tolerate someone who even questions your ideals and offers real-world insights that may help you achieve the diversity you seek.
