Google fails to fire black who said Jews' have an 'insatiable appetite for war and killing' and simply moves him to new post because he has apologized
Google has been blasted after it failed to fire its head of diversity over anti-Semitic blog posts - after the tech giant merely moved him to a different job.
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.'
The most offensive section of the blog read, '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.'
Google announced on Wednesday that Bobb would be removed from his position as global lead for diversity strategy and research, but would remain with the company in a research role.
Google condemned 'the past writings by a member of our diversity team that are causing deep offense and pain to members of our Jewish community' in their statement.
'These writings are unquestionably hurtful,' the statement added. '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.'
Insider reports that Bobb has not been fired, though. Instead, he has been reassigned to a STEM research role.
Google has not commented on why Bobb ultimately kept a job with the company.
Stop Antisemitism, a Jewish group, was among those criticizing Google for not firing Bobb outright.
'How is the obscene, antisemitic bigot still employed there?' the group tweeted.
In his blog post, Bobb goes on to evoke the memory of Kristallnacht, a Nazi massacre 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.
According to his website, Bobb - who grew up in Brooklyn - is the 'Global Lead for Diversity Strategy and Research at Google and the founding Senior Director of the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech.'
Prior to this he worked for the US government at the National Science Foundation where he was 'responsible for $30 million annually of investments targeted on improving computing and STEM [Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education.'
Critics rounded on Bobb after the blog post was highlighted in an article by the Washington Free Beacon.
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The Woke Mob Comes for Lincoln
Legislation is moving through the House to put President Abraham Lincoln’s words, currently the motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs, on the chopping block.
In the most biblically righteous inaugural address ever delivered by an American president, an exhausted Abraham Lincoln called upon his countrymen to care for those who had taken up arms in defense of the nation—risking their all in battles that raged from Pennsylvania farm fields and the desert brush of the New Mexico Territory to the Caribbean and the English Channel.
In this, his second inaugural address, delivered just weeks before his death, Lincoln closed his remarks with these words:
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Lincoln’s charge is emblazoned on VA’s headquarters building and its hospital walls. And thanks to a 2020 initiative, plaques with these words are slated to be placed in VA cemeteries across the country to remind Americans of the speech Frederick Douglass called “the sacred effort.”
The message is simple. America is a creedal nation founded on the universal ideals of human freedom and individual dignity. That creed has been defended by 41 million Americans who have worn the uniform since the first shots were fired on Lexington Green in April 1775.
Sadly, there are some who are bound and determined to “escape history.” Legislation is moving through the House and is on offer in the Senate to put Lincoln’s words on the chopping block. And there is little doubt that if it lands on President Joe Biden’s desk, he will sign it.
The woke tide engulfing America is now taking aim at America’s warriors. Those who today loudly argue that Lincoln’s words are non-inclusive and sexist are the same who said nothing as the Obama-Biden administration left VA in tatters.
Of course, veterans are not immune from the cultural cannibalism tearing the country apart. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio gladly authorized a parade celebrating cannabis but denied a permit to soldiers who wish to observe Memorial Day. This is the same mayor who targeted for removal the statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History.
There is a deeper meaning to what is happening at VA. To strike at a nation’s symbols is to question the nation’s reason for being. Professor Jeff Polet of Hope College puts it simply: “Whoever describes the past shapes the present.” What we are witnessing is a revolution that seeks to reshape the core of the American ethos. And not even the Great Emancipator is immune.
The American nation did not spring de novo from the minds of powdered philosophers gathered in a suffocatingly hot room in Philadelphia. As Russell Kirk demonstrates in “The Roots of American Order,” it was the culmination of moral and political thought that ran from ancient Jerusalem through Athens and Rome to London.
America was the expression of 3,000 years of historical and religious memory. The emphasis is on memory, what G.K. Chesterton described as the “democracy of the dead” that “refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
One million American warriors have perished defending that national memory. If there is no room for Lincoln, if we permit politicians to erase him in the name of whatever liberal clerisy happens to be in the ascendancy, where is there room for those—our veterans—who defended the “mystic chords of memory” he summoned forth during America’s greatest trial?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/27/the-woke-mob-comes-for-lincoln
**********************************Oxford University reportedly plans to teach that imperial measurements are 'tied deeply to the idea of the Empire' in a bid to make science courses less 'Eurocentric'.
The University has suggested imperial measurements, including the mile, inch, pound and ounce, should be 'decolonised' due to its links to the British Empire.
Decolonising plans by Oxford's maths, physics and life sciences departments suggest the teaching of the measurements in the curriculum may change, according to The Telegraph.
It comes after a pledge from Oxford's vice-chancellor Louise Richardson to embed teaching on colonialism and the Empire into courses and 'diversify' the maths and life sciences curriculum.
Undergraduates and scholars will reportedly conduct research this summer to determine how Oxford's science teaching can be made less 'Eurocentric', before drawing up proposals for lecturers to apply recommendations to the syllabuses.
The plans support a 'cultural shift' in teaching and hope to see Oxford students' learn and understand the 'global historical and social context to scientific research'.
The eight-week decolonising project is said to be considering a new curriculum on the 'history of modern measurement' and its 'ties' to 'Empire and Imperial standardisation'.
While imperial measurements, including weight, length and volume, could also be given historical context in Oxford University's physics curriculum.
The British imperial system was introduced in the 1824 British Weights and Measures Act and were widely adopted as the traditional system of weights and measurements by 1826 - prior to the adoption of the metric system in 1965.
An Oxford spokesman told The Telegraph: 'The university supports the diversifying STEM curriculum project, which is looking at how curricula might change to acknowledge questions of diversity and colonialism.
'We value the input of students into this work; all recommendations arising from the project will be referred to departments to consider next steps.'
Following last summer's Black Lives Matter protests, Oxford University vowed to ensure its degrees educated pupils on colonialism.
A letter, signed by 35 college principals last June, said: 'The university has, as Britain does, a history that is marked by colonialism and imperialism. The recent protests have also brought a renewed focus on this era of Oxford's history.'
The mathematical, physical and life sciences faculties were also given grants to help them increase diversity in their syllabuses.
Professor Richardson said in a letter to the university's student union: 'Many departments in social sciences have begun work on making their curriculum more inclusive and adding diverse voices to it.
'This includes steps such as integrating race and gender questions into topics, embedding teaching on colonialism and empire into courses, changing reading lists to ensure substantial representation of a diverse range of voices, and ensuring better coverage of issues concerning the global South in syllabuses.'
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