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

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Sun Aug 20 16:06:43 PDT 2017


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)
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> 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.

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