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Please, quote feminist propaganda with the same level of invective that has been circulated at Google and maybe we have something to talk about. Otherwise, you are just trying to justify the author of a memo that was released at a work place by suggesting there's literature released elsewhere that is as inflammatory.


Here are some Googlers' responses on their internal G+: https://imgur.com/a/S48QN

Some go beyond propaganda and get close to calling for violence. Quotes include: "…you deserve what's coming to you." and "Yes this is silencing. I intend to silence these views. They are violently offensive."

As far as I know, none of these people were fired for their posts.


On the other hand, their names were leaked so that now alt-right trolls can make their life miserable. Don't you think that's a way of silencing people?


Sure, but that's a totally different argument. The one I was responding to was:

> Please, quote feminist propaganda with the same level of invective that has been circulated at Google and maybe we have something to talk about.

I showed a half-dozen examples of Googlers being far more insulting and threatening than Damore's memo. As far as I know, none of them were fired. The double-standard could not be more obvious. Damore was fired for the ideas he expressed, not the tone he used.


Well, if google were to open all their internal memo systems, I'm pretty sure one would be found...

edit: Also, I'm pretty sure there was internal "feedback" related to this memo that was equally hyperbolic towards the author.




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