Allen Esp
Allen Esp
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

It’s odd that you are asserting that the left benefit from superior reasoning skills when the logical fallacy you are exhibiting here is so basic, it can be summarised as; “I am intelligent and I have certain beliefs, therefore people who don’t share my beliefs are not intelligent.”

You then go on to back up your argument with a bunch of vague anecdotes, non sequiturs and ad-homs all the while deriding others for their inability to think scientifically and their poor reasoning skills.

Who knows why tech leans to the left? Maybe individuals concerned with technological progress tend to also be politically progressive? But this is a question of mindset rather than intelligence. It may surprise you to learn that tech is not the only industry that employs intelligent people.

For example, Neurosurgeons, a group not known for its lack of intelligence or education, are statistically mainly political conservatives.

The Banking, Finance, Hedge Funds and Private Capital sectors also statistically lean right. Your assertion that right-wingers are incapable of understanding complex mathematical proofs and algorithms is quite hard to defend.

You’re right however, that James Damore’s firing from Google had nothing to do with his political beliefs, rather it was a result of Google’s political beliefs. Damore just presented the results of research carried out by evolutionary psychologists, the problem arose, as it so often does, when the findings didn’t support the prevailing ideology.

The left love to sneer at the religious right for being anti-science because the theory of evolution doesn’t support their beliefs. James Damore presented research that suggests that the gender disparity in tech can, at least in part, be explained by the process of evolution then suddenly the left found themselves in a position where the theory of evolution doesn’t support their beliefs either. There’s a certain Schadenfreude in that.