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| Google Diversity Chief Offers Private Apology for Anti-Semitic Remarks As Company Remains Silent |
| 2021-06-03 |
The learned gentleman’s response to this story from yesterday. [WashingtonFreeBeacon] Google flack: 'I am not offering this as an official statement from Google, nor am I speaking as an authorized Google spokesperson'Like in all the ambulance-chasing Attorney ads: "I'm a non-attorney spokesperson" Google’s global diversity leader apologized privately on Tuesday night to the company's Jewish employees for a blog post in which he argued that Jews have an "insatiable appetite for war," but the tech company remains mum on the controversy. Kamau Bobb, Google’s global lead for diversity strategy and research, sent an email apology to a listserv of Jewish Google employees—known within the company as the "Jewglers"—and said his "hurtful" statements about Jews were part of a ham-handed attempt to criticize Israel’s military action. Golly. I guess that’s all right, then — since he didn’t mean to be hurtful. A consultant for Google passed along the note to the Free Beacon with a set of strict instructions regarding its use: "Please also note that while I work with Google, I am not offering this as an official statement from Google, nor am I speaking as an authorized Google spokesperson," the consultant said in an email. Google itself has yet to offer any official comment on the dust-up, nor has the tech giant, whose CEO Sundar Pinchai issued a lengthy note last summer detailing his commitment to "racial equity," made any public remarks on the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks.Bobb told Google's Jewish employees that his anti-Semitic tirade was "intended as a critique of particular military action" and apologized for "crudely" characterizing all Jews. "[T]he world is leaving us all feeling unsafe and unsettled right now. i certainly don't want to contribute to that," he added. "[N]one of this changes or excuses the words i wrote — but i am deeply sorry for them." Bobb's 2007 blog post, titled "If I were a Jew," was reported by the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday. In the post, Bobb offered his thoughts on how Jews should view the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself," he wrote in the Nov. 30, 2007, post on his personal blog, where he was still actively publishing as recently as April 2021. "Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering [of] others." Jewish organizations have slammed the post as anti-Semitic and called on Google to address the controversy. ".@Google must fire this #antisemite #KamauBobb," wrote the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the most prominent anti-Semitism watchdog groups, on Twitter. Michael Dickson, executive director of Stand With Us, a group that fights anti-Semitism, wrote on Twitter: "Did @Google Google [Bobb]? He’s not fit for this post." In Bobb’s email to Google employees on Tuesday night, he said his blog "is a place for my personal reflection on a number of complex issues spanning years." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #12 It's actually just Wakandans and moslems who have an appetite for violence and indifference for others' suffering. ...and the Latin America-linked narco-gangsters, both illegal immigrants and their legal descendants who prefer that life, the Mafiya from various countries in the former Soviet Union, Italian mobsters, Irish mobsters, the Chinese mobsters... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-03 23:57 |
| #11 If only the internet had some kind of search engine where they could look up the crazy things an applicate posted online and not-hire them in the first place. Because if such a strange search engine existed we would have to assume the HR did know about this and nobody cared until someone found out and made it public. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-06-03 20:58 |
| #10 Say, didn't a visitor say something very similar to that Tuesday in the British Carrier takes a World Tour thread? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-03 19:24 |
| #9 It's actually just Wakandans and moslems who have an appetite for violence and indifference for others' suffering. The rest of us want to move on to peace and maybe go to space. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-06-03 15:29 |
| #8 Where is the howling mob? |
| Posted by: KBK 2021-06-03 15:18 |
| #7 Come see the racism inherent in the progressive. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-06-03 11:58 |
| #6 Any, and I mean ANY, US Jew who votes Demrod is a complete moron. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2021-06-03 11:45 |
| #5 ^I can only speak for myself - but my appetite for revenge is not sated. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-03 11:23 |
| #4 Google announced last night that Mr. Bobb was transferred from the diversity job to something undefined in STEM, according to Business Insider. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-03 11:11 |
| #3 It's going to be shushed up until it goes away. This is what they do on all the minority-on-minority problems. They need to concentrate and not be distracted from the Main Enemy: white people. |
| Posted by: Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-03 08:09 |
| #2 Your apology is accepted - here, have a banana. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-03 01:18 |
| #1 Speak the TRUTH and RESIGN you multi-millionaire put your soul on the line, because that IS where your life is at, grow a set of balls, privately--- pleases no one. A generation of soul-less people, eat shit, assholes, parents - grandparents ;eave them NOTHING - I cut my LIBERAL/COMMIE Daughter out--see you bitch- your grandparents were communist repressed and NAZI concentration camp survivors, so FUCK YOU for ETERNITY, C-unt Sorry I feed you for 22 years,bitch |
| Posted by: Gofkyrslf Bonaparte8254 2021-06-03 01:10 |