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* '''link''': [[URL::https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/google-memo-man-women-tech-original-computer-programmers]] | * '''link''': [[URL::https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/google-memo-man-women-tech-original-computer-programmers]] | ||
* '''title''': [[title::Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you]] | * '''title''': [[title::Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you]] | ||
| − | * '''summary''': | + | * '''summary''': [[Summary::“[[James Damore]]'s controversial [[James Damore/Google's Ideological Echo Chamber|manifesto]] says women are genetically unsuited to tech roles. Doesn't he know they were the original computer programmers?”]] |
| − | “The viewpoint Damore is espousing is known as biological essentialism. It's used by people who have been told all their lives that they're special and brilliant, and in moments of insecurity or arrogance, seek to prove this with [[junk science]]. Junk science like "women are biologically unsuited to technical work", which – despite all his thesaurus-bothering, pseudoscientific linguistic cladding (see, I can do it too) – is the reductive crux of his argument.” | + | “The viewpoint Damore is espousing is known as [[gender essentialism|biological essentialism]]. It's used by people who have been told all their lives that they're special and brilliant, and in moments of insecurity or arrogance, seek to prove this with [[junk science]]. Junk science like "women are biologically unsuited to technical work", which – despite all his thesaurus-bothering, pseudoscientific linguistic cladding (see, I can do it too) – is the reductive crux of his argument.” |
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 6 July 2020
- when: 2017/08/09
- author: Holly Brockwell
- source: The Guardian
- topics: James Damore/Google's Ideological Echo Chamber junk science erasure of women
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- link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/google-memo-man-women-tech-original-computer-programmers
- title: Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you
- summary: “James Damore's controversial manifesto says women are genetically unsuited to tech roles. Doesn't he know they were the original computer programmers?”
“The viewpoint Damore is espousing is known as biological essentialism. It's used by people who have been told all their lives that they're special and brilliant, and in moments of insecurity or arrogance, seek to prove this with junk science. Junk science like "women are biologically unsuited to technical work", which – despite all his thesaurus-bothering, pseudoscientific linguistic cladding (see, I can do it too) – is the reductive crux of his argument.”