Something I've noticed...
Aug. 10th, 2017 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinisterporpoiseEver since my politics have swung a bit more to the left after seeing how people in my situation are treated, I seem to be getting interrupted a lot more by the roommate before I can finish the point. Oddly, this happened to me in my Everquest II guild when speaking with someone who believed Alex Jones offered real news.
And sadly, there are some good points in the Google employee's manifesto, but he tried to make it about diversity and sexism, when he had ideas that Google might have been willing to try if he hadn't made it an "us vs them issue." Sadly, now that he's put his paper out there on the Internet, he's destined to become a hero of MRAs and the alt-right when at first he merely had a more conservative position
And sadly, there are some good points in the Google employee's manifesto, but he tried to make it about diversity and sexism, when he had ideas that Google might have been willing to try if he hadn't made it an "us vs them issue." Sadly, now that he's put his paper out there on the Internet, he's destined to become a hero of MRAs and the alt-right when at first he merely had a more conservative position
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Date: 2017-08-13 03:23 am (UTC)Yeah there are disproportionately more Autistics in certain fields. But sexism and the phenomenon of women and enbies being all but shut out of certain fields pervades *other* fields, as well, *not just Autistic dominated fields*.
— Ben
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Date: 2017-08-13 04:16 am (UTC)