Posted on 06/03/2021 9:23:47 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Kamau Bobb, head of Google's diversity strategy and research team, was removed from his post after an antisemitic blog post he had written was uncovered.
Bobb wrote that Israel had "an insatiable appetite for vengeful violence" in a 2007 post.
Google announced it's removing its global lead on diversity strategy and research from his post after it was discovered he'd made antisemitic comments in a past blog post.
Kamau Bobb will be reassigned to a STEM research role after The Washington Free Beacon uncovered a 2007 blog post by Bobb titled "If I were a Jew."
"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 now-deleted post.
"If I were a Jew today, my sensibilities would be tormented. I would find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the long cycles of oppression that Jewish people have endured and the insatiable appetite for vengeful violence that Israel, my homeland, has now acquired."
" I wouldn't understand those who suggest that bombing Lebanon, slaughtering Lebanese people, and largely destroying Beirut in retaliation for the capture of a few soldiers is justified," Bobb wrote.
Several leading Jewish groups, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Stop Antisemitism, tweeted that Bobb should be fired.
Instead of firing him, though, Google is moving Bobb into a STEM-focused role.
In a statement released Wednesday evening, Google said it "condemned the past writings by a member of our diversity team that are causing deep offense and pain to members of our Jewish community and our LGBTQ+ community."
"These writings are unquestionably hurtful," the statement continued. "The author acknowledges this and has apologized. He will no longer be part of our diversity team going forward and will focus on his STEM work."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Gee, if only there were a reliable system Google could have used to research his previous writings, blog and social media posts before they hired him as ‘diversity director.’
Like a search engine or somethin’.
LOL! :)
Ha-ha. Good point.
We should be able to nominate commentary for ‘FreeRepublic Comment of the Year’. Yours would be in the top three for 2021.
As if his replacement will not have the same hateful attitude toward the state of Israel, minus an easily searchable blog posting history documenting it.
Remove the just put in place Racist Token for being a Racist Token, speaking like a Racist Token, and acting like a Racist Token?
seems like something the wingnuts at Google might do.
It sounds like he is a Jew of the self-hating variety. You should not hate anyone, but especially not yourself and your own people.
I love it!
I really should read more carefully. I skimmed and misunderstood.
Ridiculous. If it was a white man who made similar comments, he would have been fired before the ink was dry on the newspaper articles.
> Instead of firing him, though, Google is moving Bobb into a STEM-focused role. <
Give it time. Eventually Google will move him back to his previous - and more important - position. But to confuse the media, they’ll probably just rename the position.
Instead of “head of diversity strategy and research” they’ll call it “head of diversity research and strategy.” And then everyone will be happy.
Reassignment isn’t a “consequence”. They’re just removing him from his position as spokesperson. They agree with him ... they just don’t want to admit it.
Google reassigns antisemitic “diversity” leaders, but fires conservative employees who speak out against “diversity” BS!!!!
They fired James Damore for less.
Hahahahahaha...such an intractable problem!
Got to love the woke turning on the woke.
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