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It does though. For instance, were any articles framed as [More than X Google workers condemn firing of James Damore], despite that actually being the case? The media, universities and other elite institutions always support the "SJW cultural domination" stance on all these issues and the discussion is always framed from that perspective.

You'll find similar framings such as [More than X GitHub workers condemn GitHub's deals with ICE]. You'll never find [More than X GitHub workers condemn removal of meritocracy rug], despite that also being the case. You may not like me pointing this out, but that's how it happens. It's not cognitive dissonance to see that that's how these things go.

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"You'll never find [More than X GitHub workers condemn removal of meritocracy rug], despite that also being the case"

How would you know it's the case unless, say, 1200 GitHub workers sign a letter of protest as they did in the case of Google?

Sure, we could imagine that 1200 GitHub employees objected, but that's not the same thing, is it?

People are afraid of being labeled a bigot and having their careers ruined because they have a nuanced opinion about an issue related to identity politics.

The cognitive dissonance is that a huge number of highly respected people in the field, and coworkers, said "yeah, this was racist bullshit", and the actual paper in question has been seen by a lot of people by now.

But if you are committed to the stance that racism doesn't exist and this is all a grand SJW conspiracy then you have to grasp at straws to ignore the overwhelming number of experts disagreeing with you.

I don't believe in experts. They have no power to change my mind about any social issue whatsoever. So them saying "this is racist" means nothing to me. There is no cognitive dissonance. You're projecting it into me because you think I think like you, that I care about what experts have to say, when I don't.

It was a technical question about the predictive power of language models, the biases encoded in them and the results of their use in a large system like all of Google's connected products.

But I guess to your particular faith-based ideology the mention of race makes it a "social issue"? Anyway I'm sorry I misclassified you and in the process insulted your religious beliefs. That wasn't my intention.

Thank you for your apology. My religion is very important to me and it really bothers me when people think I care about experts. Universities and other buildings of high density intellectual activity should be thoroughly demolished with tanks & tractors (and without the people in them, of course), the charade has gone on for too long.

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