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Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

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

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Post by ostenning »

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…

The article you have linked said that he got fired. Its literally in the headline:

> Nick Cannon apologizes for anti-Semitic remarks after firing

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

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Post by bitcharmer »

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

Sadly the moment you call out Israel's human rights violations and ethnic cleansing you get automatically branded as antisemitic on all major social media and by most mainstream outlets too.

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

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Post by ttt0 »

cdot2 wrote: post #9
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.

I think this guy just doesn't like jews

Or he's just against jewish privilege and systemic jewish supremacy

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Post by bushbaba »

smrtinsert wrote: post #5

Being Jewish has nothing to do with Israeli state policy. Is that so difficult to understand? Some German living in the US in early 40s was not responsible for Nazis. What is wrong with people? Lately it's seems to me simple logic has no correlation with technical ability. You're not a general genius Bob, you're just good at computers.

He directly said Jews. Quote from his blog:

“If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself”

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

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Post by tobesure »

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.

There are additional examples, but posting them and discussing the normalization of anti-white racism is "flamebait" and will get your account suspended on HN for "ideological battles".

In any case the fact that he hasn't been completely cancelled speaks to the unique status that anti-white racism has over other forms.

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

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Post by dalbasal »

Somewhat tangential, but who is the right kind of person for a diversity job? What does a job well done look like? Changes in hiring? Changes in company culture?

I'm skeptical of roles with a "my job is to care about X" kind of definition. That includes, for example, "customer advocate" and similar, especially someplace as complicated as google. I don't think they can have much success beyond the surface level.

EDIT: lets maintain a presumption of good faith. Assuming that you actually care about diversity...

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Post by tgv »

cdot2 wrote: post #9
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.

I think this guy just doesn't like jews

Possibly, but the second statement points at the contrast between being a Jew and being an Israeli. For the "global lead on diversity strategy and research" of one the world's giant corporations, it's remarkably insensitive, of course, but then again, written 13 years ago.

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

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Post by goatinaboat »

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

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

Yes it's very strange isn't it, I wonder what the reason could be

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