{"id":23515,"date":"2017-08-09T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=23515"},"modified":"2017-10-15T17:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:17:53","slug":"signs-times-washington-post-googles-firing-terrifies-social-conservatives-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/signs-times-washington-post-googles-firing-terrifies-social-conservatives-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Times &#8211; Washington Post: &#8220;Why Google\u2019s firing terrifies social conservatives so much&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LTRP Note<\/strong>: We are posting this article for informational and research purposes and not as an endorsement of the source or of all the content.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/google-logo-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/google-logo-1.png 225w, https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/google-logo-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>By Erick Erickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong> Washington Post<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n\u201cI strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more,\u201d the Google employee wrote. \u201cWomen on average show a higher interest in people and men in things. \u2026 Women on average are more cooperative. \u2026 Women on average look for more work-life balance while men have a higher drive for status on average,\u201d he continued. . . .<\/p>\n<p>According to the tech site Gizmodo, Damore wrote an \u201canti-diversity screed.\u201d Re\/Code referred to it as \u201csexist.\u201d The tech site Mashable assailed anyone who defended Damore as being part of the \u201calt-right.\u201d The problem, chiefly, is that many critics claimed Damore said things he did not and painted the things he did say in the worst possible light.<\/p>\n<p>It is, for example, true that Damore said women suffered from \u201cneuroticism\u201d more than men, but he made clear he was using the psychological, scientific terminology for suffering higher anxiety and having a lower stress tolerance in job and life situations. He did not mean it as a pejoratively as the left painted it. In fact, he did not pull his statements out of thin air or make them up. Damore based his statements on sociological and psychological studies that are accepted by the scientific community, of which he is a part.<\/p>\n<p>Social conservatives are looking at what Google has done and, while acknowledging Google has every right to fire an employee, are concerned this outcome bodes poorly for anyone who thinks differently from the left. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2017\/08\/08\/why-googles-firing-terrifies-social-conservatives-so-much\/?utm_term=.950d633147f3\">Click here <\/a>to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-white text-shadow \">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170929030135\/https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2016-06-22\/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated\">The New Censorship: How did Google become the internet\u2019s censor and master manipulator, blocking access to millions of websites?<\/a>&#8221; 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