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

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Post by foolfoolz »

13415 wrote: post #134
xvolter wrote: post #51

For anyone who is interested, the actual blog post on his website was deleted. It's available on the Way Back Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...

Thanks for linking that. It puts the issue in perspective. To be honest, I'm amazed that a blog post like that can make someone lose his job as a "head of diversity." Apparently, diversity at Google means that people should never voice critical opinions about the Israeli government, not even privately. For me, the lesson to learn from this is that to never apply for a job in the US or for a job for a large US company…

this isn’t just criticizing israel. this is criticizing all jewish people as being war hawking hypocrites unable to remember history who don’t care about anyone but themselves. it’s clearly antisemitic. and if he wanted to make this about israel it should have been phrased “if i were an israeli” which still isn’t accurate cause not everyone in israel suppported this

maybe the lesson is if you are going to make sweeping, negative, generalizations about a population you are probably going to look like an idiot. and especially if you feel the need to publish them to the world

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

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Post by koheripbal »

jefftk wrote: post #151
xvolter wrote: post #51

For anyone who is interested, the actual blog post on his website was deleted. It's available on the Way Back Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...

Doesn't look deleted to me? http://kamaubobb.blogspot.com/2007/11/if-i-were-jew.html

Looks like he migrated to his own domain and has not deleted his blogspot account like he did the blog on his domain.

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

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Post by door101 »

myfavoritedog wrote: post #113
ostenning wrote: post #6

Here is a classic case of someone conflating the state of Israel and Jewish people and lumping it all together. Plenty of Jewish people that live both inside and outside of Israel are critical of the state. People can be critical of the state of Israel, but they should not be antisemitic. His comments are offensive for this reason.

People can be critical of the state of Israel, but they should not be antisemitic. Theoretically, I guess, but it's really strange how the one tiny country in the whole world that has a Jewish-dominated society is so often a target for complete destruction. Many of the same countries that have all but eliminated their own Jewish populations somehow find Israel's very existence to be unpalatable, going after them in t…

> Theoretically, I guess, but it's really strange how the one tiny country in the whole world that has a Jewish-dominated society is so often a target for complete destruction.

Because it’s a colonial ethnostate, with massive support from the United States. Israel (the colonial ethnostate) should not exist. Palestine is not an ethnostate, it is the name for the multicultural, multi-ethnic state who rightfully controls the area occupied by Israel, before British colonialism and subsequent invasion and occupation of the territory.

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

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Post by lacksconfidence »

wonderwonder wrote: post #109
mikewarot wrote: post #78

So, it took some digging, but here is the text https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:luIscB... As you can see, it's a quite well written critique of Israel, and it is definitely NOT anti-Semitic. I find it quite ironic that it took Google's cache to find the thing Google itself wants canceled

It is Anti-Semitic in that he is lumping all jews in with Israel. I am a Jew, America is my homeland. I live here and am an American. I am not an Israeli. I give almost zero thought to Israel in my day to day. Jews are consistently labeled with an "other" tag, we are not Americans, we are Jews and Israel is our country. Also "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in def…

Replace jew with 'israeli' in every occurance. Who's fault is it that israel intentionally tried to muddy the water and make the word confusing? I don't see any anti-semitism here. I see here concern that israel does not care about the humanity of their neighbors.

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

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Post by lainga »

KittenInABox wrote: post #114
underseacables wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost certainly. The last 13 years has created a double standard. White: Guilty until proven innocent, and even then, still guilty. Person of color: No, that’s wrong, people of color cannot be racist or prejudice, what they said was taken out of content by someone who is racist. That’s the new paradigm. Racism, prejudice, and bigotry, of any kind, by anyone, is just wrong.

13 years should be plenty of time to have some studies covering this; do you have studies to prove this claim?

Plenty of time... the totalitarian principle of QM notwithstanding, not everything not forbidden is compulsory at a macro level; academia is not a deterministic machine for yielding studies given the appearance of a phenomenon. Otherwise I'd ask you to provide some studies quantifying "plenty of time".

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

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Post by bern4444 »

kmonsen wrote: post #157
myfavoritedog wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People can be critical of the state of Israel, but they should not be antisemitic. Theoretically, I guess, but it's really strange how the one tiny country in the whole world that has a Jewish-dominated society is so often a target for complete destruction. Many of the same countries that have all but eliminated their own Jewish populations somehow find Israel's very existence to be unpalatable, going after them in t…

That’s a huge straw man. I am critical of some of Israel’s behavior, but by no means calling for its complete destruction.

I believe you, but too many people use the line, I'm not antisemitic, I'm just criticizing the government as a scapegoat to excuse obvious antisemitic behavior.

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

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Post by mooseburger »

xvolter wrote: post #51

For anyone who is interested, the actual blog post on his website was deleted. It's available on the Way Back Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...

Interesting. I wasn't sure about blacks' position relative to jews on the oppression stack. I guess jews are actually above them (i.e. blacks cannot criticize jews the way they can whites)? Was this always the case? As I recall, Louis Farrakhan gets away with worse.

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

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Post by whimsicalism »

koheripbal wrote: post #148
underseacables wrote: post #52

The left’s obsession with cancel culture and conducting archeological digs on past comments, tweets, etc is coming back to bite them. I think removing this guy was the right thing to do, BUT I also think a major company like Google needs to set an example: Something someone tweeted more than ten years ago should no longer be relevant and should be ignored. However until that standard is set as example by a major comp…

Notably, Kamau Bobb removed ALL of his blog posts over from his personal website. It looks like some people on Twitter began looking through all of his blog posts and finding controversial opinions. In my opinion, the 1619 Project is a racist and decisive project and has no place at Google, and Kamau Bobb was a public supporter of that. So if Google is going to support "cancel culture", then Kamau Bobb should have no…

I think the 1619 project is.. not great history and it is unfortunate that it has gotten such accolades, but how is it racist?
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