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Been enjoying reading sonyaellenmann's tweets and links for seeing how reasoning around difficult topics works.
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sonyaellenmann Here's the thing: I think we tend to use a lot of stand ins for interpersonal issues that make analysis difficult...
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sonyaellenmann I think that often what the right sees as PC culture is a request that they emphasize and show it in their argument...
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The right thinks they should not have to have or display empathy, but in reality that's how good arguments happen lifehacker.com/utilize-the-steel-man-tactic-to-argue-more-effectivel-1632402742
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on the left - a tendency to see refusal to emphasize (sort of objectivism about arguments) as personal attacks. (Sometimes they are tho)
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And then these all get abstracted into buzzwords and straw men. I wonder if the memo would have been received differently if he steel-man-ed
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Should the Google employee have been fired? Yeah, but for excellent business reasons: as previously noted medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788
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Empathy makes good engineers. And good managers. And good employees. He didn't just lack it, he was against it.
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More than that, the argument showed an lack of curiosity about the other side of the argument, also a marker of a bad employee/engineer.
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More than that though, even if you could make the argument that he wasn't sexiest, the forum and form of the argument was disrespectful.
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*sexist