Google Employee Anti-Israel Insurrection Should Be A Wake Up Call To Ditch Woke Corporate Culture
Our column in the NY Post: Firing anti-Israel subversives is a good start, but Google’s Sundar Pichai has a long way to go.
Every now and then a topic comes along that was just too good to pass up.
That happened yesterday when Kemberlee and I had an opportunity to write about the intersection between Google and anti-Israel activists. When it comes to search results, we along with much of conservative media is nowhere to be found. Even for Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin, where we dominated the news, we were many pages down, which means we were lost. We’ve also been demonitized by Google Ads, a hit on our revenue given Google’s dominant position in online ads.
Woke eats its own, and Google experienced that when anti-Israel employees who threw their own insurrection by occupying parts of Google HQ leading to their firing and arrest. Oorah for that, but maybe it’s time to for woke corporate America to wake up to the monsters they have created.
Our column appeared in the NY Post, Firing anti-Israel subversives is a good start, but Google’s Sundar Pichai has a long way to go. Here’s an excerpt, click on the link for the full column:
It looks like Google finally got around to googling Winston Churchill’s famous quote: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
When radical leftist employees occupied Google’s New York and Sunnyvale offices in an anti-Israel, pro-terrorist sit-in, the tech giant felt the hot crocodile breath, called the police and had them arrested. Good for Google.
But that’s still not far enough.
Don’t believe for a second that Google is walking away from its woke policies.
Had those employees not occupied Google’s offices, they’d still be sitting in their little Google pods, working away, actively subverting businesses that are not part of the Woke religion.
A couple of dozen employees gone; hundreds who are just as politically malignant still on the job….
We’ve written on these pages about Google’s Gemini AI churning out historically inaccurate pictures of black Vikings and female popes.
You may also recall that Google fired an employee because he expressed his constitutionally protected but “politically incorrect” conservative opinions.
Google is horrendously biased.
And everyone knows it.
But Google’s discrimination isn’t always so blatant.
Much, if not most of Google’s bias manifests in discrete discrimination against non-woke or conservative voices.
If Pichai wants to put his money where his mouth is, he can and should start by addressing Google’s algorithmic bias, which black holes everything not woke, particularly in news and media.
Wouldn’t it be great to see the New York Post appear among the top search results for “Donald Trump”?
But that doesn’t happen.
Instead, The New York Times, CNN and other liberal outlets hostile to Trump rise to the top.
We just did that search, and The Post was not even on the first page of results.
We feel The Post’s search-result pain.
Our site, LegalInsurrection.com, suffers the same down-throttling in search results, even when our stories are among the most highly read on a topic.
This happened to us with the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case, where our coverage drove the news.
Worse still, we have inexplicably been demonetized by Google Ads.
Google owns YouTube, which removes videos that don’t toe the woke line….
But this ridiculousness doesn’t end with algorithmic discrimination….
So, just because Google fired a few of its subversive woke employees, doesn’t mean it’s changing its culture.
Google has a long, long way to go.
The column got good placement in the print edition today:
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Sundar cried in front of his employees in a large red type meeting when Trump won
Enough said
I did write Ted, not red.. phone
Is there a difference?
True
“This is a place of business, not politics,” says CEO of election rigging cartel.
When you view politics exclusively as a vehicle for amassing money, the lines get hopelessly blurred.
G00glag is still evil. Do not use any of their products, or services.
They are all captured institutions and they will never give it up
The left is being consumed by the monster they created and now they’re in a panic. Between Israel and Gender theory, anyone reading the polls realize they are losing issues for the left. Turns out, people don’t like being held hostage on a freeway so a bunch of antisemites can shriek at them. After 2020, the appetite for activism is very low among the “normies”.
Those crazed extremists were menacing other employees.
“Google Employee Anti-Israel Insurrection Should Be A Wake Up Call To Ditch Woke Corporate Culture”
Or maybe Sergei Brin did one trip too many to Epstein Island, which is a lot more likely than Google mysteriously un-woking itself for a day.
It’s simple. When woke works directly against Google, woke must go. When it works against anyone else, Google is fine with it.
Your article showed up in a Brave search engine query.
I’ve been dismayed recently by the blatantly obvious “failure” of “mainstream” search engines to find things that I KNOW are out there.
My browser is by default set to DuckDuckGo (from a long time ago when there was an actual qualitative difference). A few days ago, I asked it to search for the quoted string “We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech.” ZERO hits. Tried Google. ZERO hits. Went to the Russian search engine Yandex. Got a full page of hits.
A year or two ago, DuckDuckGo got a lot of flak for saying they were going to a “curated” model. They responded by explaining that “curated” didn’t mean “censored,” it meant “reordering” the results according to the probability that they were responsive to your query and reliable, and that was precisely what you expected of a search engine. Nothing in that self-serving gaslighting excuses returning NO results when another engine returns SOME results.
Corporations will never rid their ranks of these woke demons and perverts until they rid Human Resource departments of its employees until it hires HR employees for finding skill sets and fires the “ism” and “studies” majors that currently infest HR and PR offices. These creatures hire for wokeness. The could care less about the company itself. It is the perversions, anti-American beliefs and woke racism that is foremost to them.
It’s more likely that it won’t happen until the universities stop cranking out woke fools. And that won’t happen until parents stop donating their children to leftist institutions.
Probably not in my lifetime.
I’m in the belly of a woke corp beast. The top qualifications for working in IT at a woke company and ESPECIALLY for rising to management is a vagina and/or dark skin.
Honestly I am ready to quit 2-3 times in any given week. I have reasons beyond salary for staying- some of which is because I am personally one of the only signs of leadership dozens of people with mortgages and long careers ahead of them will see in a given day/week or even month.
This week I’m reaching out to some attorneys to for advice. I’d appreciate a 10 min convo with someone from LI foundation. This one is a whale and will not surprise you. It will surprise you how bad the rot is.
They’re making a better world(*), on the cheap and easy. That never works out well.
Back in the early oughts, an “evangelist” from The Plex was the talent at of the Seattle startup incubators montly meeting. If you’re zeitgeist-y and willing to buy the pizza, you get a venue and audience. This messenger was bringing The Word of Google’s New, New Thing with their map services.
There was a good turnout and lots of questions, from eager true believes, building their own New, New Thing incorporating the map services. Nobody quite got the answers they wanted, because being sheep-faces front row kids, they never quite asked. I’m not that, so I asked. It went something like this:
“Thanks. I’ll ask directly the question these guys
Frakking fat-finger.The playes here being Google Hack, and BierceAmbrose:
BA — “I’ll ask directly the queestion… these guys are too polite to ask straight out. What’s the road map for the service and API? When does the old API go away; when does the new one you’re talking about show up?”
GH — ” … we’re doing evereything we can to take care of people who use Map Services.”
BA — Well, you’re not doing everything you can. You have an ad business throwing off fortunes. You could keep legacy Map Services going forever right beside the new one, whenever that happens. These guys can’t.”
GH — /sarc “Thank you for pointing that out.” (He probably shouldn’t have done that. — ed.)
BA — “Pointing that out isn’t the point. The point is these guys don’t have infinite runway. They’re building their thing on the services as they are. They’ve kicked in what they’ve got to build their thing once. Then, they go live and get revenue — maybe. They don’t have a stream of money from somewhere else to rewrite their sites and services.”
GH — “Well you want us to keep making The Internet better for our partners.”
BA — “Nobody said you have to keep legacy APIs alive forever like Micro$oft. You won’t tell your “partners”, when the services they build to will go away, or what the new stuff will look like, so they can maybe provision the imposed rewrite.”
GH — “I’ll take your concerns back to Google.”
BA — “Not my concerns. You’re gonna kill a bunch of channels getting your services in front of users. These guys’ concerns. Maybe somebody’s concerns about where you are taking the internet, but not mine.”
The beats are right; the words pretty close paraphrase. I rarely go that hard. BUT I had enough off the way he was treating these people, righteously dissing while not answering where the service they counted on was gonna go. The smug was strong with this one, with the subtext: Get with the program.
you think googs did this b/c they realized their “mistakes”??
ahahahaha
they DONT WANT TO GALVANIZE THE MIDDLE …THE SWAYED VOTERS TO
VOTE TRUMP
its that simple
^This^
Need an adjustment to my eyeglass prescription. Thought that it said “Google can’t stop at CANING subversives….”. Had a smile on my face until I re-read it and saw the other “n”.