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Re: Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

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Post by notimrelakatos »

nazca wrote: post #37

Slightly shocking that he didn't get fired. (yet?) They fired Damore for writing an email that was tone-deaf, insensitive, but largely supported by research. Bobb goes on a clearly antisemitic rant, and just gets reassigned. Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years?

> Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years?

Nope, they're being very consistent if you use the correct ideological goggles, change Bobb's color palette and first name a little and we would have another Damore-like shitshow.

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Post by hn8788 »

rightorwrong128 wrote: post #81

Is 14 years the new record or do we have higher bidders?

The Boeing communications chief resigned due to a 33 year old article where he said females shouldn't be allowed in military combat roles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/business/boeing-resignati...

Re: Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

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Post by jimbob21 »

joenathanone wrote: post #7
MikeUt wrote: post #2

Odd. You never hear about people fired/removed for anti-white statements. Nick Cannon was an interesting example, where his anti-white remarks went completely ignored: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nick-cannon-apologizes-for... Edit: To those saying he apologized. Yes, he did - but only to a specific subset of those he insulted: ""First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sist…

> Nick Cannon apologized Wednesday night for comments he called "hurtful and divisive" after the television host and producer was dropped by ViacomCBS for remarks the company called anti-Semitic. First sentence from your link, seems like maybe you are just trying to be controversial.

Its even in the actual hyperlink. Trolls will be trolls.

Re: Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

nazca wrote: post #37

Slightly shocking that he didn't get fired. (yet?) They fired Damore for writing an email that was tone-deaf, insensitive, but largely supported by research. Bobb goes on a clearly antisemitic rant, and just gets reassigned. Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years?

I think the blog post is definitely worse than Damore's email (although I thought it was pretty crappy in itself), but you're talking here about a blog post from 2007 and an email that was sent via company channels while he was working there.

I can only imagine Bobb was quite apologetic and a lot more aware of how terrible his conflations are there than he was in 2007. That's also 14 years of time to have solid evidence that he no longer holds such myopic views.

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Post by zuminator »

anm89 wrote: post #12

This is the only instance relating to offensive social media I've ever heard of where someone got reassigned and not fired

Examples of people getting reassigned and not fired:

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2018/12/20/orlando-officer...

https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/assistant-principal-at-...

https://www.wgvunews.org/post/black-detroit-police-officer-r...

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Waco-ISD-hires-teacher-who...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/16/sheriffs-chief-of-sta...

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Post by Dah00n »

One of the reasons I use HN is because of the No Political or Ideological fights rule (because I know I can't stop commenting from time to time even though I'd rather live a life without this crap). I wish rules were here to be enforced, not as guidelines hardly anyone follow.

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Post by KittenInABox »

logicchains wrote: post #70
KittenInABox wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

South Africa's Apartheid was condemned as human injustice, so should Israel's Apartheid, no?

In what way are Israeli arabs treated differently under Israel law than Israeli Jews?

Israel heavily disputed its responsibility to help with vaccination efforts of the same arabs of the territory it's annexing, so yeah, that's not great.

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Post by anonbecause80 »

logicchains wrote: post #70
KittenInABox wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

South Africa's Apartheid was condemned as human injustice, so should Israel's Apartheid, no?

In what way are Israeli arabs treated differently under Israel law than Israeli Jews?

That's sort of like asking in what way are African-Americans treated differently under US law. Sure, the law may appear to be equal for all legal members of society, but that doesn't mean in practice it works like that.

The settlement doctrine, removal of Arabic as an official language, and language specifically about Israel being Jewish that were passed in 2018 are also instances where the law actually does diverge for Arab citizens. [1]

There's a pretty decent breakdown of why Israel officially meets the international requirements to be considered an Apartheid state here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MknerYjob0w

[1]https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-n...

Re: Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

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Post by Dah00n »

logicchains wrote: post #70
KittenInABox wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

South Africa's Apartheid was condemned as human injustice, so should Israel's Apartheid, no?

In what way are Israeli arabs treated differently under Israel law than Israeli Jews?

Law is a guideline. Not reality. Like American Freedom*.
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