Jeffrey Lord has an article titled “Google Bigots and the
High-Tech Lynching of Kay James” at The Spectator. The opener:
Kay Cole James, the president of
the Heritage Foundation, steps to the podium of the Pennsylvania Leadership
Conference in suburban Harrisburg and gives the startling update.
Ms. James, at a laughing, self-admitted
70 and famously one of the best known, longtime conservative leaders in the
country, announces to the PLC crowd (the PLC is the Pennsylvania version of
CPAC and was celebrating its 30th anniversary) that this was her first public
comment since she had learned only hours earlier that she had been removed as a
recent appointee to Google’s Advanced Technology External Advisory Council. The
board, on which she would have served without salary, was designed to review
artificial intelligence ethics.
Among other things the outrage mob
of over 2000 Google employees accused Kay James of being a “white supremacist.”
Kay is an African-American. With a gay son. But Google quickly caved to the
mob, dismissing Kay and then dissolving the board entirely.
And Mr. Lord concludes:
In sum what we are witnessing in
Google culture and on too many college campuses is what Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the
first head of the then-new Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka,
described this way: “We represent in ourselves organized terror — this must be
said very clearly.” And that “organized terror,” Dzerzhinsky emphasized,
involved “the terrorization, arrests, and extermination of enemies of the
revolution on the basis of their class affiliation or of their
pre-revolutionary roles.” Or, as in the case of Kay James, the mother of an openly
gay son [and] her race.
Kay James just had an up-close and
personal encounter with this totalitarian mindset — from a major American
high-tech company. The organized terror of a Google lynch mob came for her. The
quite deliberate message for the rest of America from Google is: Watch out. The
next time it could be you.
Full article is here. Alternative search engines to Google
include DuckDuckGo and StartPage.
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