Here’s Newsweek on that Google diversity memo:
The alt-right is furious Google fired James Damore over the anti-diversity memo https://t.co/dkYvTtHySV pic.twitter.com/1UMKwq42eB
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 8, 2017
The “alt-right” apparently now includes Ben Shapiro and Eric Weinstein, a managing director at Theil Capital:
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro dubbed Google’s managers “corporate fascists” and the tech giant a “leftist monopoly” and, in one of several tweets about the issue, suggested Damore should “immediately declare himself a woman and sue Google for discrimination based on gender stereotypes.”
Eric Weinstein, managing director of Peter Theil’s investment firm Thiel Capital, wrote a widely shared tweet to Google asking the company to stop “teaching my girl that her path to financial freedom lies not in coding but in complaining to HR.”
Shapiro, as we all know, has been a target of the alt-right for months:
"I have the award for most hated Jew of 2016. It's a statue of a frog with a picture of a gas chamber." –@benshapiro
— Unnamed ?? Driver ?????? (@I___drive) August 4, 2017
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And Weinstein voted for Hillary Clinton and is a big supporter of women in the technology industry:
I mean … uh … I voted for Bernie … before I voted for HRC. And I fight for women in tech fields because we need them. Is this April 1? https://t.co/HddV0LPDXj
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) August 8, 2017
Weinstein ever tweeted that the biological differences between men and women make women better coders:
It's far more likely that women will one day be found to be better at coding than men, than that both genders will be exactly as good at it.
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) August 8, 2017
Time for an apology and a correction, Newsweek.
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