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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 beaner »

bushbaba wrote: post #15
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”

Isn't that the point that the person you're responding to is trying to make? That the diversity head was wrong to make such a generalization?

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Post by tootie »

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.

Being Jewish is also multi-tiered because it's associated with both a religion and an ethnicity. I'd love to popularize being thought of Ashkenazi and not Jewish. I don't have a familial bond with Israel for probably 17 centuries and I don't really care if I ever did. My culture is more strongly associated with Eastern Europe and we were run out of town on a rail 100 years ago.

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

cookieswumchorr wrote: post #8
Tomte wrote: post #3

> Instead of firing him, though, Google is moving Bobb into a STEM-focused role. That's surprising, but I think it's good. He's obviously not viable in the diversity role, but there's no reason to go ballistic over a 15 year old blog post.

why would they use an engineer for such a role anyways. Should have gotten someone with a degree in gender studies

>why would they use an engineer for such a role anyways.

So that the engineers who have to comply with the policies and orders this guy sets or sets in motion feel better about it.

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Post by kenjackson »

Tomte wrote: post #3

> Instead of firing him, though, Google is moving Bobb into a STEM-focused role. That's surprising, but I think it's good. He's obviously not viable in the diversity role, but there's no reason to go ballistic over a 15 year old blog post.

I don’t know. I’m not Jewish, but I’d have trouble working with someone with views like that. I guess if they were extremely contrite and enough time had passed since they had said it (and no other incident since then).

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Post by eplanit »

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

He is black, and there is a double-standard -- but don't dare call that racist. It's all absurd, but it's actually good to see examples of "you become the thing you hate". Hate is a horrible, corrosive emotion. We see it a _lot_ these days -- people who become emotionally entangled and lost in their activism against racism (the mob encourages this mindset, as in that state, critical thinking is turned off). They then become hateful and racist themselves.

These incidents can hopefully (but doubtfully) cause some reflection about "why the hell do we even have 'diversity officers' in a software company? Maybe we're getting results opposite of what we sought. After all, we created the role with the silly title just to virtue-signal, in the first place."

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Post by tasogare »

goatinaboat wrote: post #19
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

Diversity. As a "divers" he cannot be fired, that would be bad PR.

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Post by spinny »

> 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...

WRONG THINK ALERT - get the army of snowflakes and flag this persons comment. ohh wait somebody did already.

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Post by djrogers »

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.

I think GP’s point was that he was fired for anti-Semitic remarks, while he made remarks about white people that were ignored:

“ those without dark skin "have a deficiency" and have acted as "savages" throughout history. He references "Jewish people, white people, Europeans“ ”

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

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Post by gadders »

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.

As long as you (the general you, not you specifically) subject all countries that (allegedly) mistreat their citizens or neighbouring countries to the same level of criticism. When you single out the world's only Jewish state for criticism it looks kinda racist.

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