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James Damore simply could not make a polite and well reasoned argument....
Guess this means that the Left is really anti-science, then.
He was more polite and used better reasoning than Charlie Sheen, but both failed to acknowledge that they needed the skills and efforts of others on their teams, and how to communicate effectively with team leadership. I respect James Damore and I love Charlie Sheen, but they could have done better.
It sounds like what you’re saying is that an expressed opinion should be executed with an appropriate level of skill in communications(or perhaps it’s not worthy of protections?).
It's important to show a little respect for the other side, or free speech will be wasted on deaf ears.
thought police, who pretend to be shocked every day when it doesn't align with their thought policing policies
They’re both missing what was missing: The President.
No matter what the comedian’s politics have been since the dinner began letting comics lead the event in 1983, the President of the United States was there to respond. The President got his chance to roast and counter-attack in the spirit of the evening and, yes, in the spirit of unity. President Trump is the first in decades to hold his office and not attend — which last occurred in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan, who called in by phone while recovering from an assassination attempt. Like all bullies, current President “I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon” is a coward. He’s capable of delivering his “witticisms” against the media, Democrats and others only from a safe distance. Like all bullies, he can never engage on an even playing field.
Yessiree, Saturday night he was the funniest guy in Washington, Michigan. No contest.
When I did the dinner in 1993, President Bill Clinton had just come off one of the worst first 100 days in office: the Tailhook scandal, the Branch Davidian fiasco, not getting his budget passed and so on. Yet he showed up, took the hits and brilliantly answered in the spirit of the evening. That takes intelligence.
Wolf was “wildly inappropriate” and “raunchy” and didn’t take the high road? The high road was demolished at Donald Trump’s first presidential debate and is now a sinkhole. Mocking the disabled is inappropriate. Raunchy and vulgar? Well, that’s just locker room talk. If only Michelle Wolf had smiled more…
Whatever you think of this dinner, it’s a venerable tradition in a free country that celebrates a free press. By not attending, this president continues his bulldozing of American traditions like decency, inclusiveness and fair play. His review from afar? “This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great Country.” He ought to know. The comic reflects the times.
Hate speech
hate speech be tolerated regardless of the obvious and well documented harm it causes
Snowflakes gotta toughen up
Are we talking about Trump,
Hitchens could tell people to kiss his ass because his employment was not dependent on conformity. But in the SF Bay Area, James Damore simply could not make a polite and well reasoned argument about, say, women in engineering without losing his job because the Lysenkoists demanded that they had the right to police his opinion.