On managing outrage in Silicon Valley
One of my first exposures to this &quot;manifesto&quot; was on Twitter with someone starting a thread with &quot;Google has a Nazi problem.&quot; The majority of the other responses I read either attacked the author, dismissed the entire text in whole, and&#x2F;or refused to actually argue the paper&#x27;s points because they saw them as so ridiculous or &quot;obviously&quot; wrong.<p>I read the paper. I don&#x27;t see at all how it relates to fascism, Trumpism, or whatever you want to call it.<p>I am against discrimination, and that includes positive discrimination.<p>If there were factual inaccuracies in what the author wrote, why not discuss them? Why not use high-quality sources to validate your argument? I wish it was the opposite, but I don&#x27;t have the time to research the psychological&#x2F;sociological perspectives on these issues. Human civilization has grown thanks to being able to specialize. I specialize and (hopefully) make contributions in one field, but I depend on others that have specialized elsewhere to provide knowledge and resources I can depend on.