James Damore dumbass Manifesto got him fired, now thinks KKK names are cool.
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Listen, you guys need to sit down and read about some of the history of Silicon Valley / Stanford and the area for the last 100 years. This is in NO WAY a new sentiment from "liberal" California. Lewis Terman, a Stanford professor, was one of the first to bring the IQ test originally developed by Binet in France to the US. Binet developed IQ tests as a way to pick out children who may need additional help and educational assistance. Terman among others brought it to the US and made it into what we see it as today: a hierarchical fixed ranking of persons intellectual abilities. He was also one of the first to suggest groups with lower IQ scores (not just Blacks at the time but also Southern Europeans and even Eastern European Jews) had lower scores likely for genetic reasons. He had no real genetic proof of this as no techniques at the time could even ask that question correctly.
A lot of the "Blacks are dumb and have low IQs due to genetic predisposition" started with him. Fast forward several decades to the 1960s. The Physics Nobel Laureate and transistor co-inventor William Shockley started Fairchild Semiconductor, one of the first semiconductor companies. He is an a$$hole and poor manager causing his employees, like Gordon Moore of Moore's Law, to leave and form what eventually became Intel. Shockley then goes off to a new venture--evangelizing the genetic inferiority of Black intelligence. He was internationally vocal on this and promoted "research" to prove his point. He proposed that the US set up a "voluntary" sterilization plan where people where given $100 per IQ point below 100 (average intelligence) to get themselves sterilized. Since Blacks at the time scored an average of 85, about 80% of the Black population would fall in his program.
Later Shockley helped mentor and support Arthur Jensen at Berkeley who was the godfather of the "IQ is 80%+ genetics and Blacks got the short end of the stick" theory. Most of the alt-right rantings about Black intelligence derive directly from Shockley, Jensen, or Rushton. All of whom were funded by the Pioneer Fund founded by a textile magnate who wanted to deport us back to Africa before we muddied their gene pool. Jensen and Rushton were also key in shifting a bunch of the race rhetoric to saying "Asians are ok/great" because of their higher IQs. They weren't really trying to empower Asians, just use them as an example to kick us down and show how "fair" they were.
This stuff is as Silicon Valley as Apple, Google, or Intel unfortunately. Don't let the bullshyt PR confuse you.
A lot of the "Blacks are dumb and have low IQs due to genetic predisposition" started with him. Fast forward several decades to the 1960s. The Physics Nobel Laureate and transistor co-inventor William Shockley started Fairchild Semiconductor, one of the first semiconductor companies. He is an a$$hole and poor manager causing his employees, like Gordon Moore of Moore's Law, to leave and form what eventually became Intel. Shockley then goes off to a new venture--evangelizing the genetic inferiority of Black intelligence. He was internationally vocal on this and promoted "research" to prove his point. He proposed that the US set up a "voluntary" sterilization plan where people where given $100 per IQ point below 100 (average intelligence) to get themselves sterilized. Since Blacks at the time scored an average of 85, about 80% of the Black population would fall in his program.
Later Shockley helped mentor and support Arthur Jensen at Berkeley who was the godfather of the "IQ is 80%+ genetics and Blacks got the short end of the stick" theory. Most of the alt-right rantings about Black intelligence derive directly from Shockley, Jensen, or Rushton. All of whom were funded by the Pioneer Fund founded by a textile magnate who wanted to deport us back to Africa before we muddied their gene pool. Jensen and Rushton were also key in shifting a bunch of the race rhetoric to saying "Asians are ok/great" because of their higher IQs. They weren't really trying to empower Asians, just use them as an example to kick us down and show how "fair" they were.
This stuff is as Silicon Valley as Apple, Google, or Intel unfortunately. Don't let the bullshyt PR confuse you.
MouseTeeth
All Star
Elaborate?
shadowking
All Star
AndroidHero
Superstar
Fired Google Memo Guy Says KKK ‘Names Are Cool’ in Nonsensical Tweetstorm
James Damore — the ex-Google employee who was fired after issuing a memo bashing diversity policies — used his Tuesday afternoon to blast out a nonsensical tweetstorm praising the “cool” titles of the Ku Klux Klan’s hierarchy system.
The self-identifying “centrist nerd” attempted to make a point about “moralized issues,” tweeting, “The KKK is horrible and I don’t support them in any way, but can we admit that their internal title names are cool, e.g. ‘Grand Wizard’?” The post included a poll with four response options: Yes; No, the names aren’t cool; No, that’s racist; and No, other (see above).
After immediate blowback, Damore followed up with an extremely bizarre line of thinking: he suggested that you do yourself an intellectual disservice by examining the most reprehensible movements in a good vs. evil perspective, since you can no longer “acknowledge any positive aspect” of the group.
While he didn’t name any such positive aspects in the KKK, he did make an analogy seemingly comparing the white supremacist group to drugs and sex: You have to be responsible, but “they can be fun.”
“If you make the actual KKK the only place where you can acknowledge the coolness of D&D terms, then you’ll just push people into the KKK,” he added, “D&D” in this context referring to Dungeons and Dragons — because of course Damore would reference the roleplaying video game when discussing morality.
To summarize, Damore appears to be doing some kind of mental gymnastic routine to justify his weird poll praising KKK titles. His qualm seems to be that some people are totally incapable of reasonably discussing certain topics — even when it comes to what he considers to be amoral details of groups like the KKK.
His full tweetstorm went as follows:
I wonder what are the positive aspects of the KKK, maybe like him they are anti-diversify?
@Pink_Freud @GetInTheTruck
Come defend your idiot boy.
James Damore — the ex-Google employee who was fired after issuing a memo bashing diversity policies — used his Tuesday afternoon to blast out a nonsensical tweetstorm praising the “cool” titles of the Ku Klux Klan’s hierarchy system.
The self-identifying “centrist nerd” attempted to make a point about “moralized issues,” tweeting, “The KKK is horrible and I don’t support them in any way, but can we admit that their internal title names are cool, e.g. ‘Grand Wizard’?” The post included a poll with four response options: Yes; No, the names aren’t cool; No, that’s racist; and No, other (see above).
After immediate blowback, Damore followed up with an extremely bizarre line of thinking: he suggested that you do yourself an intellectual disservice by examining the most reprehensible movements in a good vs. evil perspective, since you can no longer “acknowledge any positive aspect” of the group.
While he didn’t name any such positive aspects in the KKK, he did make an analogy seemingly comparing the white supremacist group to drugs and sex: You have to be responsible, but “they can be fun.”
“If you make the actual KKK the only place where you can acknowledge the coolness of D&D terms, then you’ll just push people into the KKK,” he added, “D&D” in this context referring to Dungeons and Dragons — because of course Damore would reference the roleplaying video game when discussing morality.
To summarize, Damore appears to be doing some kind of mental gymnastic routine to justify his weird poll praising KKK titles. His qualm seems to be that some people are totally incapable of reasonably discussing certain topics — even when it comes to what he considers to be amoral details of groups like the KKK.
His full tweetstorm went as follows:
I wonder what are the positive aspects of the KKK, maybe like him they are anti-diversify?
@Pink_Freud @GetInTheTruck
Come defend your idiot boy.
AndroidHero
Superstar
Damore is now trying to walk back his earlier Tweets.
Can't believe this idiot used to work for Google.
Google dodged a bullet by firing him.
Can't believe this idiot used to work for Google.
Google dodged a bullet by firing him.
AndroidHero
Superstar
generic-username
Superstar
Now surprise here. When a White man starts talking about how there are differences in IQ based on gender, common sense should tell you he is a White supremacists
Ms.CuriousCat
All Star
Grand Wizard, sounds like something from a comic book. Apparently it's Imperial Wizard though.
GetInTheTruck
Member
Fired Google Memo Guy Says KKK ‘Names Are Cool’ in Nonsensical Tweetstorm
James Damore — the ex-Google employee who was fired after issuing a memo bashing diversity policies — used his Tuesday afternoon to blast out a nonsensical tweetstorm praising the “cool” titles of the Ku Klux Klan’s hierarchy system.
The self-identifying “centrist nerd” attempted to make a point about “moralized issues,” tweeting, “The KKK is horrible and I don’t support them in any way, but can we admit that their internal title names are cool, e.g. ‘Grand Wizard’?” The post included a poll with four response options: Yes; No, the names aren’t cool; No, that’s racist; and No, other (see above).
After immediate blowback, Damore followed up with an extremely bizarre line of thinking: he suggested that you do yourself an intellectual disservice by examining the most reprehensible movements in a good vs. evil perspective, since you can no longer “acknowledge any positive aspect” of the group.
While he didn’t name any such positive aspects in the KKK, he did make an analogy seemingly comparing the white supremacist group to drugs and sex: You have to be responsible, but “they can be fun.”
“If you make the actual KKK the only place where you can acknowledge the coolness of D&D terms, then you’ll just push people into the KKK,” he added, “D&D” in this context referring to Dungeons and Dragons — because of course Damore would reference the roleplaying video game when discussing morality.
To summarize, Damore appears to be doing some kind of mental gymnastic routine to justify his weird poll praising KKK titles. His qualm seems to be that some people are totally incapable of reasonably discussing certain topics — even when it comes to what he considers to be amoral details of groups like the KKK.
His full tweetstorm went as follows:
I wonder what are the positive aspects of the KKK, maybe like him they are anti-diversify?
@Pink_Freud @GetInTheTruck
Come defend your idiot boy.
One of Nas friends name is "Grand Wizard" he shouts him out on his albums.
People also think Nazi uniforms looked cool. So what?
Why you mentioning me in this nonsense?
AndroidHero
Superstar
And most people do not think there are positive aspects of the KKK, most people don't think it's a problem to moralize the KKK.
I mentioned him because you were defending this idiot in this thread.