Papas Levies
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

What you just did was incredibly stupid and harmful. You just put out a manifesto inside the company arguing that some large fraction of your colleagues are at root not good enough to do their jobs, and that they’re only being kept in their jobs because of some political ideas

Isn’t that exactly what the oppressed claim? The bottom line is whether or not their claims are true.

I need to be very clear here: not only was nearly everything you said in that document wrong, the fact that you did that has caused significant harm to people across this company, and to the company’s entire ability to function.

I think this sentence sums up the point of the manifesto: not that certain groups of people are unfit for engineering jobs, besides that is clearly denied at multiple points in the text (in the trait distribution example), but that

Psychological safety is built on mutual respect and acceptance, but unfortunately our culture of shaming and misrepresentation is disrespectful and unaccepting of anyone outside its echo chamber

Personally, I find some of the arguments of the manifesto convincing, like “ Stop restricting programs and classes to certain genders or races” or “ treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group” or “ Focus on psychological safety, not just race/gender diversity”.