The fiasco of James Damore

 Posted on November 29, 2018  (Last modified on December 4, 2018)  |  6 minutes (1246 words)  |  #Opinion  #Equality   •  Other languages: Esperanto

Here is a topic that has plagued me and rubbed me the wrong way entirely since I first heard of it. It’s the topic of James Damore, the Google employee who was essentially fired for wrongthink. A man who advocated diversity and inclusion, but was fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes. The background of this topic is as follows. In July 2017, Damore wrote a document titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” after a meeting on diversity invited feedback(1). [Read More]
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False dog whistles

When saying what you mean is not enough

 Posted on July 19, 2018  |  4 minutes (844 words)  |  #Opinion 

Lately I have been thinking a lot about why it is so difficult to disagree with certain progressive ideas—you disagree on one point, and this is interpreted to mean that you must hold an opinion you do not have. For instance, if you suppose that the earnings gap cannot exclusively be attributed to discrimination, you must hold the opinion that women are inherently worse performers in the workforce. I find this line of reasoning incredibly frustrating. [Read More]
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Amsterdam time

Why we should use cities, not timezones, to indicate time

 Posted on April 23, 2018  (Last modified on April 28, 2018)  |  3 minutes (548 words)  |  #Opinion   •  Other languages: Esperanto

We will meet at three o’ clock GMT, the first of May. [sic] This is a subject on which I am extremely pigheaded. Often, when I am planning an online meeting with people who live in other timezones, they wish to choose a time and date using the GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) timezone. And often, that causes misunderstandings. The cause behind the misunderstanding is normally daylight saving time (henceforth called summer time). [Read More]
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