ybsmaR belaC
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

For the rest of this document, I’ll concentrate on the extreme stance that all differences in outcome are due to differential treatment and the authoritarian element that’s required to actually discriminate to create equal representation

And that’s exactly what he did, with a plentiful scattering of qualifiers, note also his particular rails against “social constructionism” and that Google should just accept that the natural limit of diversity in tech has already been reached.

This isn’t a case of nitpicking a single sentence that he wrote or paragraph, but viewing the broad concept and argument of the entire piece. Thus, singular quotes from it are not directly representative of its whole.

Thanks for providing the link to the full piece, with that chart and the hot links still attached. I don’t know why giz got rid of them either. Disappointingly, they primarily went to Wikipedia pages or typical newspaper articles and the occasional specialist website promoting fringe beliefs and perspectives. Ultimately the burden of proof is on him, not me or you. In that regard, you may feel that I mis-characterized what he was saying, that’s your right and I’m not going to spend hours pulling out quotes from his piece in an attempt to prove my stance. Because as I said above, it’s the whole of the piece, the heart of it, not the freckles on its skin.

To that point, many of the statements he made about himself, I find to be disingenuous at best. Such as his labeling himself as a liberal. The Westboro Baptists call themselves Christians. If one defines a Christian as a follower of Christ, nope, they aren’t that. If one defines a Christian as someone that ignores the teachings of Christ and focuses on the most hardcore aspects of the Old Testament, then they are Christians in that regard. Definitions shift, just 150 years ago the typical Christian stance in the US was assimilate or be destroyed, just ask all of those dead Native Americans. Now, average Christianity is a bit more accepting and much less violent.

Pardon the tangent, but I like to use metaphors and analogies to broaden the perspective.

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