Google pulled its diversity head from his position this week after a past anti-Semitic blog post
in which he wrote about Jews’ “insatiable appetite for war and killing” came to light and drew widespread condemnation from Jewish groups.Corbis via Getty ImagesKamau Bobb, who was tapped as Google’s global lead for diversity strategy and research in 2018, wrote in a now-deleted 2007 blog post that if he were Jewish, he “would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself,” and referred to Jews’ “increasing insensitivity to the suffering others.
in a statement the tech giant “unequivocally condemn” Bobb’s past writings, adding he was removed from his position on Google’s diversity team and will “focus on his STEM work” at the company going forward., writing that his blog post “crudely characterized the entire Jewish community,” and what was “intended as a critique of particular military action fed into anti-Semitic tropes and prejudice.”
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