He specifically stated "if I were a Jew", not "if I were a Zionist". That makes it explicitly anti-semitism.
You'd think that the global head of diversity would know the difference between Jews and Zionist.
You'd think that the global head of diversity would know the difference between Jews and Zionist.
AFAIK, he wasn't “global head of diversity” for any organization when he wrote it, but only many years later.
That’s not to say that being able to distinguish between Jews, Zionists, Israelis, and the Israeli government isn’t basic threshold knowledge that should be expected of anyone publicly commenting on Israeli policy and how it should make anyone feel based on group association, but setting expectations of people’s knowledge based on their future jobs is a bit bonkers.
He was literally a founding senior director for "equity in computing" at Georgia Tech and was a national strategy advisor to the Obama administration for bringing "equity and justice" to STEM (when he wrote this blog post).
Please update your post as you're spreading FUD.
>AFAIK, he wasn't “global head of diversity” for any organization when he wrote it, but only many years later.
He's been a DEI grifter for over a decade, including when he originally wrote his anti-semitic post.
Neither of those is “global head of diversity”.
> Please update your post as you're spreading FUD.
No, I’m not and I see no need to update my post. If the upthread post were updated to refer to his actual position at the time of the post, I might be bothered to simply empty out my response as it would be moot, but given that it seems (like your post defending it) to be from a single-use throwaway account, I don't expect that to happen.
Exactly, they're much higher positions with more scope and reach than "head of diversity" at a software company. Thanks for agreeing with me.
>I might be bothered to simply empty out my response as it would be moot
Except the premise of your post was proven categorically false. He absolutely should have known the difference between "Jews" and "Zionists" if he was a diversity advisor to the Obama administration. QED.
I don't agree that that’s necessarily evident from the titles alone, and reviewing the actual positions themselves is difficult, e.g., the one he was described upthread as being in at the time of the memo could not have even existed at that time, since it was in 2007 and the position was described as being in an Administration that didn't take office until 2009.
The flow of time seems problematic for the throwaway accounts in this subthread.
> Except the premise of your post was proven categorically false.
The premise of my post was that the post it responded to described an expectation of knowledge based on a specific position he held only much after the time of writing the piece. Which has not been proven false since it was and remains true.
(That the author of that post might have been able to refer to a different position that did not have that problem is a side issue.)
Obama was in Office 2007?
He was working on the STEM initiatives for Georgia Tech at the time of his writing.