Noam Chomsky ***** ***** *** ******* ***** - [ PFKR ] SciAmerican: Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero

[Razer]

On 08/20/2017 04:06 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> On 08/20/2017 11:03 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
>> 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" <pfir at pfir.org> -----
>>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:05:09 -0700
>> From: "PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List"
>> 	<pfir at pfir.org>
>> Subject: [ PFIR ] SciAmerican: Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn't a
>> 	Hero
>> To: pfir-list at pfir.org
>>
>>
>> SciAmerican: Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero
>>
>> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/google-engineer-fired-for-sexist-memo-isnt-a-hero/
>>
>>   	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."
> How can something be "of no scientific interest"? That's rather a
> "Ministry of Truth" sort of statement.

Because the only people who would really care are people with agendas,
and that's the truth.


Rr



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