Re: [RC] What does a politically correct company do when it is demonstrably wrong?

[David Block]

This is the actions of a corporation that has fully converged into Distributive 
Social Justice. 

It is driven by Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) which I refer to as Social 
Justice Wankers. If you do not utter the leftard progressive position on all 
matters you are to be silenced and expelled from their society, and unemployed 
if they can arrange it. You should starve, heretic. 

There is a problem with this logic that has revealed itself with the election 
of Trump. SJWs don't seem to think "Wow, a person I respect thinks something I 
disagree with. Maybe I'll think about this different perspective." They think 
"Wow, this person I thought I respected outed himself as a hater."

They don't rethink the idea. They rethink the individual.

Ditto the Fascist Anti-Fascists, who, unironically, wear the black of Hitler’s 
SS and Gestapo. I will be trying to go to the Brave web browser shortly, 
getting off of Chrome. 

David 

> On Aug 12, 2017, at 10:09 AM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical 
> Centrist Community  wrote:
> 
> What does a politically correct company do when it is demonstrably wrong,
> empirically wrong, in the values assumptions it makes ? 
>  
> Answer:  If the company is Google it retreats into psychological denial,
> it doubles down on its discredited values  -because, when all is said,
> its leadership is ideologically driven and closed minded.
>  
> All in the name of enlightened values and scientific progress, of course.
> 
> Google has became a parody of itself, a joke, a laughing stock.
> 
> Why does a mega-corporation commit suicide?  That, Horatio, is the question.
> 
>  
> BR comments
> 
> 
> 
>  
> The Federalist
> 
> The Science Says the Google Guy was right about Sex Differences
> 
> A myriad of distinguished professors and social scientists have
> already confirmed what James Damore wrote in his Google memo:
> Men and women are measurably different.
> .
> By Glenn T. Stanton 
> August 11, 2017
> 
>  
> The Google guy behind the infamous gender memo 
> ,
>  James Damore, is a troglodyte. An embarrassing, knuckle-dragging, 
> flat-earther who is under the silly illusion that men and women have inherent 
> differences. Google properly fired him for just being stupid. At least that’s 
> the fashionable story.
> 
> But the truth is that it was Damore who got it right. (And his main concern 
> was how to get more women working at Google, after all.)
> 
>  
> -
> 
> Most of us know exactly why gender parity doesn’t exist in Silicon Valley. 
> It’s not because they are consciously (or unconsciously) denying employment 
> to women who are seeking jobs there. Actually, quite the opposite. It’s the 
> fact that while women outpace 
> 
>  men in college attendance today, those interested in STEM 
> programs lag 
> significantly behind . Other professions tend to 
> interest them more. In fact, the annual U.S. News/Raytheon STEM Index 
>  
> reported last year that enrollment among women in such programs declined from 
> 2015 to 2016.
> 
> U.S. News reports that “Women may lag behind men in areas like engineering, 
> for example, but they far outstrip men in earning biology degrees.” For 
> instance, women make up 80 percent of the students enrolled in the Cornell 
> University College of Veterinary Medicine. Wendy Williams, a professor in 
> Cornell’s Department of Human Development, explains that “Women are choosing 
> to do different things. Everyone doesn’t want to be an electrical engineer or 
> to do computer science, and that’s not a failure or flaw.” Allowing women to 
> choose what they want to do, without external and ideological pressure, is 
> empowerment.
> 
> We know that men and women are hard-wired differently—not better, not 
> worse—in part because of the breakthroughs in two very interesting fields of 
> scientific inquiry: one is the hard science of neurobiology and the other is 
> the softer science of cultural anthropology and evolutionary psychology. 
> Let’s first examine the findings of neurobiology from the last two decades or 
> so.
> 
> The Case from Neurobiology
> Two of the earliest experts to write on this issue are the British team of 
> geneticist Anne Moir and science journalist David Jessel in their 
> groundbreaking book Brain Sex 
> . Based 
> on their own work and that of others, Moir and Jessel explain with equal 
> parts boldness, clarity, and sureness:
> 
> … The truth is that virtually every professional scientist and researcher

[RC] What does a politically correct company do when it is demonstrably wrong?

[BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community]

What does a  politically correct company do when it is demonstrably wrong,
empirically wrong, in the values  assumptions it makes ?  
 
Answer:  If the company is Google it  retreats into psychological denial,
it doubles down on its  discredited values  -because, when all is said, 
its leadership is  ideologically driven and closed minded.
 
  
 
All in the name of enlightened values and  scientific progress, of course. 
Google has became a parody of itself, a joke, a  laughing stock. 
Why does a mega-corporation commit  suicide?  That, Horatio, is the 
question. 
BR comments 
 
The Federalist 
The Science Says the Google Guy was right  about Sex Differences 
A myriad of distinguished professors and social scientists  have
already confirmed what James Damore wrote in his Google  memo:
Men and women are measurably different.
.
By _Glenn T.  Stanton_ (http://thefederalist.com/author/glennstanton/)  
August 11, 2017 
The Google guy behind the infamous _gender memo_ 
(https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf)
 , James 
Damore, is a  troglodyte. An embarrassing, knuckle-dragging, flat-earther who 
is 
under the  silly illusion that men and women have inherent differences. 
Google properly  fired him for just being stupid. At least that’s the 
fashionable  story. 
But the truth is that it was Damore who got it right. (And his main  
concern was how to get more women working at Google, after all.) 
- 
Most of us know exactly why gender parity  doesn’t exist in Silicon Valley. 
It’s not because they are consciously (or  unconsciously) denying 
employment to women who are seeking jobs there. Actually,  quite the opposite. 
It’s 
the fact that while women _outpace_ 
(http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-college-enrollment-gains-leave-men-behind/)
  men in  college 
attendance today, those interested in _STEM_ 
(https://www.livescience.com/43296-what-is-stem-education.html) programs _lag 
significantly behind_ 
(https://archive.fo/7Oji2) . Other professions tend to interest them more. In  
fact, the annual _U.S. News/Raytheon STEM Index_ 
(https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-17/the-new-stem-index-2016)  
reported last year that 
enrollment  among women in such programs declined from 2015 to 2016. 
U.S. News reports that “Women may lag behind  men in areas like 
engineering, for example, but they far outstrip men in earning  biology 
degrees.” For 
instance, women make up 80 percent of the students  enrolled in the Cornell 
University College of Veterinary Medicine. Wendy  Williams, a professor in 
Cornell’s Department of Human Development, explains  that “Women are choosing 
to do different things. Everyone doesn’t want to be an  electrical engineer 
or to do computer science, and that’s not a failure or  flaw.” Allowing 
women to choose what they want to do, without external and  ideological 
pressure, is empowerment. 
We know that men and women are hard-wired  differently—not better, not worse
—in part because of the breakthroughs in two  very interesting fields of 
scientific inquiry: one is the hard science of  neurobiology and the other is 
the softer science of cultural anthropology and  evolutionary psychology. Let
’s first examine the findings of neurobiology from  the last two decades or 
so. 
The Case from Neurobiology
Two of the earliest experts to write on  this issue are the British team of 
geneticist Anne Moir and science journalist  David Jessel in their 
groundbreaking book _Brain Sex_ 
(https://books.google.com/books/about/Brain_Sex.html?id=WOPgAfHjljoC) . Based 
on their own work and that of others, Moir and  
Jessel explain with equal parts boldness, clarity, and sureness: 
… The truth is that virtually every  professional scientist and researcher 
into the subject has concluded that the  brains of men and women are 
different. … [T]he nature and cause of brain  differences are now known beyond 
speculation, beyond prejudice, and beyond  reasonable doubt.

 
 
 
Moir and Jessel anticipated the Google meltdown  in this observation: “
There has seldom been a greater divide between what  intelligent, enlightened 
opinion presumes—that men and women have the same  brain—and what sciences 
knows—that they do not.” Thus, “It is time to cease the  vain contention that 
men and women are created the same. They were not and no  amount of 
idealism or Utopian fantasy can alter that fact.” 
This does not necessarily bode ill for  women. Northwestern’s Alice Eagly 
is a feminist scholar emeritus and major  contributor to the field of the 
social psychology of gender difference. She  explains in an important journal 
article entitled _“The Science and Politics of Comparing Women  and Men,”_ 
(http://faculty.smu.edu/chrisl/courses/psyc5351/articles/sex%20differences.pdf
)  that in dealing in male and female  stereotypes in the popular and 
professional literature, “the stereotypes of  wo