I read the memo. Thoroughly. And anyone with a brain and an understanding of all the facets of hiring processes and intimate knowledge of multiple areas of tech, and the climate and state of tech in the USA knows exactly what the article was about. And anyone that can compare, for example, a gender-diverse climate of tech employment like, say, India, to US practices knows what the article was about. (Fun fact, the gender gap is negligible in India.)
And the article was about a man gish-galloping all over diversity hiring practices in tech and virtue-signalling about logic when he repeatedly delivered improper and completely bunk Evo-Sci to back it all up.
Kindof what it seems like many people are doing when replying to the author’s article with distaste, or questioning her PhD and other nonsensical garbage. And when I say this, I mean: prefacing your statements with upholding logic and squashing emotions, when, to be plain, there is no logic to be had. Just the statement of having logic. Which somehow, one thinks, acts as a shield for whatever reason.
He is not the expert on hiring practices in tech, diversity, and so on and so forth. In fact, he was just a maligned and upset manchild who was working with people he deemed incompetent and therefore instead of going to management WROTE A MANIFESTO and emailed his coworkers.
Read the Manifesto. Read it again and actually dig around in the words he is saying. I will be grading you for understanding context clues and citing source material. I will be grading you on interpreting sentence structure and vernacular, and I will be grading you on how thoroughly you research each specific part of his claims. I will be grading you on how well you are able to garner sources on both sides of the Manifesto argument, and I will be grading you on how well you are able to articulate a crafted, pointed rebuttal to the entirety of the original article that you have commented on. And I do mean, entirety.
Because Damore was counting on people being unwilling or able to tra-la-la through his 10 pages of nonsense and parse his buried rhetoric. Which you seemingly describe to be well-versed in. So you can put the effort into this assignment, can’t you?
Submit your homework assignment no later than Wednesday, August 30th, 2017.
