His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.
“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.
Genocide is not exclusive to Jewish victims. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.
Genocide can be committed by anyone. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.
Genocide is being committed by Israel’s military against the people in Gaza. It is not anti-Semitic to say that… but it is sad.
It is even sadder that my government, instead of stopping them, continues to help Israel commit genocide.
“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides.
Yes, solid reasoning. New genocides can’t exist because there were old ones
Pretty sure there have been many genocides since WW2
I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like
the UNWikipedia in relation to these issuesReally works as a counterargument against anything!
Why do you think Israel positions itself as an ethnostate so? “Everything we do is Jewish because we’re an ethnostste with strict apartheid for non-Jews so if you criticize us it’s antisemitism!!”
But the actions of Israel and its government are not the actions of Jews, they are the actions of Israel.
Yeah, I think the confusion is assuming that it’s only a genocide when it targets specific subgroups inside a population. It also applies in terms of national groups (whole or in part). This means any attack that intents to kill civilians of a country (or that at least intents to not make any distinction between civilian or not) is a genocide.
For example, that list also includes genocide of Ukrainians by Russia.
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Russia’s attack on Ukraine is not just to change political boundaries. It is to wipe out the Ukraine culture and its people
It share the same goal as israel. Israel is still worse. Russians claim that ukranians are just russians . Israel want to wipe palestinians because they believe that they are the only who has the right to live in palestine
Yes, what makes it a genocide is the intent to target the civilian population belonging to that nation. It does not necessarily have to be about race or religion, it can still be genocide if it targets the nation. Russia doesn’t have a problem with the kids race, religion or ancestry, but with them being raised under Ukranian society and values.
Yay me. Got my first comment removed on Lemmy.
What an honor, especially considering it broke none of listed rules here
Before and after. Like you said, the occurrence of one unfortunately doesn’t stop humans from carrying out another elsewhere.
Reminder to ditch Google
OrganicMaps to CoMaps. botwarden to KeePassXC
I tried OrganicMaps, but it was noticeably less usable than Google Maps.
When you actually need maps on mobile, UX issues and jank becomes extremely annoying.
CoMaps works better than OrganicMaps for me. And there is an app called Geo Share than can transform links from GMaps to CoMaps.
Atom to Pulsar?
Dear Sergey,
if you object to the specific word “genocide”, then perhaps we should start calling it the “mass murder and starvation that has killed 5-10% of all Palestinian civilians”. That doesn’t sound much better, though, does it?
One of the key things that some in the “UN is anti-semitic” camp likes to claim is that the UNHRC has many nations that are non-democratic and have known human rights abuses.
But that’s somewhat cherrypicked. Yes, the nations proposing measures against Isreal do seem like a biased set. But most of the Western democracies ultimately vote for those measure, with only the US rejecting it.
also deeply offensive is actually DOING a genocide and killing gaza citizens in cold blood who are just waiting for aid
“With all due respect" is always followed by something deeply disrespectful.
“With all due respect” is one of those handy phrases that can mean either. The user could be saying the amount of respect they think is due is zero.
Will you right wing libertarian tech bro Nazis please, kindly, for the love of everything resembling humanity, fuck the fuck off forever and self delete
He can go suck a lemon
The only victims of those rediculous accusations is non zionist jews
its not great for the people actually being genocided too.
I mean with antisemitism accusations or without them, gazan are genocided. Nobody who isn’t a scum believe in those accusations but those accusations can increase the real antisemitism
This is also about proportionality and perspective. I care a lot more about people being killed than about one particular group being casually biggoted against. I see antisemitism as a comparatively minor injustice when compared directly to the injustice of Israeli crimes against humanity. And no one talks about the vast issue of anti-muslim bigotry and anti muslim violence, which seems to me to be far more virulent and damaging in its injustice and violence than the effects of anti semitism.
I say people who wring their hands about anti semitism should get in line with all the rest of the victims of terrible biggotry while we all deal with this israeli terrorism and colonization problem. Anti semitism is a problem, but it doesnt rank highly against other more directly impactful problems, right? I rank it right up there with British anti-Irish sentiment. Anti Irish sentiment is a problem, but not worth imprisoning people for years for having that bigotry.
Anti semitism is nothing compared to the 80 years of murderous crimes by the zionists, with their laughing “mowing the grass” strategies. Its nothing compared to anti black prejudice in the US. And nothing compared to oppression of women globally.
Sergiy Brin is a rich spoiled brat who needs to grow the eff up.
He doth try to don that mantle, dothn’t he.
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