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

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Sun Aug 20 18:35:56 PDT 2017


On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 05:49:42PM -0700, Razer wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Yep, the only people who really care about facts, have an agenda, so
STFU about these particular facts, or face the wrath of Razer, the
intellectual fraud.



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