The Silencing of Conservatives

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Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Everything about the response to the Googler’s manifesto is wrong.

I would have expected, if people had actual — factual — points they could make against the manifesto they would have made them. Instead we have mischaracterizations, name-calling, and now — silencing.

Take Yonatan Zunger’s response. He starts with an ideological belief and then attempts to “educate” the author. In brief the three sections of his response are:

  1. There are no differences between men and women. See (unspecified) other places for confirmation of this fact.
  2. The fact that women are more social is a Good Thing in Engineering. (As long as it is a Good Thing we can acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.)
  3. Merely proposing that such differences — in average — could exist makes it horrible for women to work! After all, no woman is different — on average men are stronger so every woman is weaker than every man! Didn’t you know? /s

And then there is the silencing. The response from the “Vice-President for Diversity” was even better. There are, she said, so many ways for Googlers to express themselves — more than she’s ever seen in a company. Of course, you have to express yourself in The Correct Way otherwise you will be fired. But you have so many ways to express yourself The Correct Way!

This weird and wonderful time we live in echos the dunking of witches! Lord help us.

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