On 08/15/2017 10:45 PM, #$%$ %$%$ #$%&ed forth an edited copy of a
message to the People For Internet Responsibility mailing list.
This edited message contained many confusing edits, including edits to
Lauren Weinstein's address, the name of the mailing list, its domains,
and Lauren's social media URLs. These edits materially misrepresent the
original source of the message as well as its content.
In the interest of accuracy I am including a copy of the message from
Lauren himself without the edits.
----- Forwarded message from "PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility)
Announcement List" -----
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:05:09 -0700
From: "PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List"
Subject: [ PFIR ] SciAmerican: Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn't a
Hero
To: pfir-list@pfir.org
SciAmerican: Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/google-engineer-fired-for-s...
He presents himself as a courageous defender of truth.
Google, in contrast, is an "echo chamber" that is "intolerant
of scientific debate and reasoned argument." Damore notes that
Noam Chomsky, the linguist and social critic, once wrote: "The
smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly
limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very
lively debate within that spectrum." But Chomsky has
expressed abhorrence for research into cognitive differences
between different groups. In his 1987 book Language and
Problems of Knowledge Chomsky wrote: "Surely people differ in
their biologically determined qualities. The world would be
too horrible to contemplate if they did not. But discovery of
a correlation between some of these qualities is of no
scientific interest and of no social significance, except to
racists, sexists and the like."
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