As Twitchy reported, those who actually read the text of that controversial memo that convinced Google to fire James Damore were surprised to learn just how uncontroversial it was. Despite bogus headlines like CNN’s claiming Damore’s “manifesto” argued that women “aren’t suited for tech jobs,” it turns out that the engineer with a Ph.D. in systems biology from Harvard really was trying to help, or at least he thought he was.
It was no surprise, then, that Damore had to be destroyed in the media as quickly as possible to preserve the preferred media narrative. Gizmodo gave it a shot:
Alert! Developing! Wrong-think investigators @Gizmodo discover that James Damore may have made a joke about masturbation in 2012. #Google https://t.co/T81jSbnRtL
— Christina Sommers ? (@CHSommers) August 9, 2017
As it turns out, left-learning media outlets weren’t content to stop there and raced to see who could be first to discredit the “pseudoscience” of evolutionary psychology, which posits that men’s and women’s brains are different.
That was quick. https://t.co/u1whZsy2on
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 9, 2017
Yes, it was.
Evolutionary psychology is as terrible as you suspect. The rest of science is flawed, too: https://t.co/LRyLPKiIcC pic.twitter.com/8NnqAcozDq
— Slate (@Slate) August 9, 2017
Don’t leave out Salon; they have their own take on the pseudoscience behind Damore’s memo.
Ex-Googler James Damore’s biologically deterministic manifesto is the latest in a long lineage of pseudoscience https://t.co/Bjs7PVZzWl
— Salon (@Salon) August 9, 2017
Recommended
People who say that men can have babies and women can turn into men want to lecture people about true science https://t.co/CSr4WKEclj
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) August 9, 2017
Wow, progs just straight up attacking science now. Remember when the religious were the science heretics?
— Tubes (@timpac) August 9, 2017
What? Remember during her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention when Hillary Clinton declared, “I believe in science”? Remember the March for Science in D.C.? How about the civil rights activist who argued that “you’re just wrong” if you’re not a scientist and disagree with a scientist about science?
Wait, I thought y'all fucking loved science? https://t.co/akqbNDkUIg
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 9, 2017
I have issues w/some overgeneralizing evo psych claims, but this piece is utter trash – shocking for mainstream sitehttps://t.co/XV5rGjjD8r
— Cathy Young (@CathyYoung63) August 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/JimmyMcCordJr/status/895409340613509120
#IFuckingLoveTheScience #ExceptWhereTheScienceConflictsWithMyMessianicReligiousCult https://t.co/uoXONNVIAR
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) August 9, 2017
Party of "science" *restrictions apply
— Purple Dalmation (@purpledalmation) August 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/Quotron_Inc/status/895413331388882944
https://twitter.com/gregb94/status/895415453417209857
I remember when questioning science was blasphemy. https://t.co/hcJqJgUv1H
— Eric Larson (@larsoneric50) August 9, 2017
I am so fucking confused right now. I THOUGHT SCIENCE DENIERS WERE LITERALLY SATAN!!! (via @molratty) pic.twitter.com/b3f9u8leEc
— Anti-Smatter (@mdrache) August 9, 2017
But the science is settled on global warming & men can have babies now. #science
— Leigh?? (@lasj45) August 9, 2017
So basically what you are saying is that science is only useful when it pushes your agenda.
— CWest631 (@Cwest631) August 9, 2017
It's not you that's wrong, it's science! It all makes sense now.
— Will Campbell (@WILLionaire317) August 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/ted7416/status/895429741720854531
It’s like claiming the science proving man-made climate change is settled because 97 percent of scientists say it is … which was a number derived from a study, not a survey.
You guys really have no shame, do you?
— Steve Campbell (@ReformedWriter) August 9, 2017
Does Salon fare any better?
Pseudoscience? Coming from a publication that considers pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation, the irony is astounding. #GoogleMemo https://t.co/jLRCRXQq53
— Christian Lind (@aMusicVideoaDay) August 9, 2017
Written by a non-scientist and cites only one study. https://t.co/IZHYshh2Xj
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) August 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/895343723969601536
* * *
Related:
WOW! SJWs dogpile PROGRESSIVE dad after he calls Google out for sending his daughter the wrong message https://t.co/ldr01Fpx97
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 9, 2017
Join the conversation as a VIP Member