Speaking of standards, an employee of Georgia Tech and
Google has recently been exposed as a rabid anti-Semite. Perhaps no one
noticed. Perhaps no one cared. Perhaps members of some groups get a pass when
it comes to purveying hate.
The man is named Kamau Bobb. He is the head of diversity and
inclusion at Google. He is also a don at Georgia Tech.
The Daily Mail has the story, which you will not read in the
mainstream media.
Kamau Bobb, who is also an 'Equity in Computing' don at
Georgia Tech, wrote a 2007 blog post, which remains on his website, titled: 'If
I Were A Jew.'
Bobb writes: 'If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my
insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is
undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity
to the suffering of others.'
He evokes the memory of Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom
against Jews in 1938, and Holocaust victim Anne Frank to question why Israel
lacks 'compassion' towards Muslims in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank.
'My greatest torment would be that I've misinterpreted
the identity offered by my history and transposed spiritual and human
compassion with self righteous impunity,' the academic wrote.
The story appeared in the Washington Free Beacon. It elicited
these reactions:
Michael Dickson, director of Stand With Us, which
educates people to fight anti-Semitism, tweeted: 'All of this begs the question
whether (1) Google did due diligence when selecting Kamau Bobb for the
sensitive position of global Google DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion)
Director and (2) whether he should remain in these positions.'
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, an educational establishment
which takes its name from the Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter,
and writer, tweeted: 'Google must fire this #antisemite #KamauBobb.'
This arises because some Google employees have been
recommending that the company cease working with Israel, and thus, to take the
side of the Palestinians in their terrorist attacks on the Jewish state and the
Jewish people:
The 14-year-old blog post remains relevant today as
Google employees recently demanded executives cut ties with Israeli businesses
following last month's bombing campaign against Islamist terrorists in the Gaza
Strip.
An internal letter to CEO Sundar Pichai urged a
company-wide statement 'recognizing the violence in Palestine and Israel, which
must include direct recognition of the harm done to Palestinians by Israeli
military and gang violence.'
It also argued that Google should 'reject any definition
of antisemitism that holds that criticism of Israel or Zionism is antisemitic,'
which is 'limiting freedom of expression and distracting from real acts of
antisemitism.'
We will see what Google does about this. It will show us how deeply the wokeness of Silicon Valley companies extends, and whether it countenances overt anti-Semitism.
5 comments:
Prediction: Google will hypocritically affirm its non-existent commitment to "free speech" as their reason for not firing the rabid anti-Semite. And then they'll pay him a bonus.
"The man is named Kamau Bobb. He is the head of diversity and inclusion at Google. He is also a don at Georgia Tech." Not very good at "diversity", or "inclusion", it seems.
"We will see what Google does about this. It will show us how deeply the wokeness of Silicon Valley companies extends, and whether it countenances overt anti-Semitism." My guess is YES. I'd like it to be NO, but I see the odds as against me.
Compare and contrast: Number of Palestinians killed over eleven days by Israeli airstrikes (best estimate, including those determined by military authorities as Hamas operatives): 248. Number of Americans murdered in Chicago, IL in 2020 (official count):
792. YTD 2021: 272. That's just Chicago. Ho-hum.
Woke and [morally] broke is an ethical (i.e. relativistic) standard. Not that Choice. Well, sometimes that Choice, too.
The greatest threat to "Palestinians", for nearly a cenutury, has been their leaders, who again, and again, and again, have denied them the second state solution (Jordan) in an ill-considered coup, and have sustained a progressive condition of diversity, inequity, and exclusion through a state of agitation, protests, and cancellation.
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