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Except that the google engineer this article refers to was not punished or fired for supporting Trump; he was fired for circulating a memo which claimed there were immutable biological reasons why approximately 50% of the workforce was unfit to work in his industry.

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Please quote from his manifesto where he actually said anything like that. You're both misinterpreting and sensationalizing, which does not help the conversation.

Come on. I think some of his arguments were flawed but that's not what he said. For christ's sake.

He claimed that women are more neurotic and emotional, that it negatively correlates with engineering performance, and that it is the reason why they aren't succeeding.

He claims that, therefore, we should make software engineering more emotional and people-focused.

Which is different to "50% of the workforce [is] unfit". There is at least a statistical aspect that you drop in favor of absolutes.

Even then, that's still not what he said.

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