Hey Google, Antisemitism Is A Feature, Not A Bug, Of The Left
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/05/13/hey-google-antisemitism-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-the-left/
Google has come in for some well-deserved criticism after its “artificial intelligence” wouldn’t answer a simple question: How many Jews did the Nazis kill? That’s bad enough. But then a not-so-intelligent Google employee compounded the problem with a lie about why it happened.
The story goes that Michael Apfel asked a Google “virtual assistant” this question: “Hey Google, how many Jews were killed by the Nazis?”
Google’s answer: “Sorry, I don’t understand.”
Then he asked: “How many Jews were killed during World War II?”
Google: “I don’t understand.”
“How many Jews were killed in the concentration camps?”
“Sorry, I don’t understand.”
“What was the Holocaust?”
“I don’t understand.”
After that series of questions, Apfel asks, “Hey Google, what was the Nakba?”
Don’t be embarrassed if you don’t know the answer, because it’s an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe,” referring to the displacement of Palestinians by Israel in 1948.
While pleading ignorance about the Holocaust, Google’s bot gave a long and detailed answer about the Nakba.
Apfel’s video went viral, with many repeating the questions and getting the same answers.
The New York Post reached out to Google, and was told that the non-answers about the slaughter of 6 million Jews were “not intended.”
Then the Google spokesperson said: “We’ve taken immediate action to fix this bug.”
Pardon our French, but that’s bullshit.
Google’s inability to answer a question that most schoolchildren know the answer to was not a “bug.” It was not the result of some innocent coding error, or the work of a rogue programmer. It was the result of intentional biases fed into the program by teams of woke Google staff and management.
Google’s AI was taught to respond in a blatantly biased way when asked about Jews. It’s the same reason Google’s AI produced such comically inept images, such as black Confederate soldiers, which forced its CEO to admit that its AI was crazily biased.
Google’s antisemitism might come as a surprise to many, as have the pro-Hamas campus protests. But that’s just because people haven’t been paying attention.
The left has an antisemitic streak that runs long and deep and that the mainstream media has long covered up by pretending that only right-wingers are antisemites.
Philip Spencer, an emeritus professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Kingston University, wrote in the Guardian six years ago — when Britain’s Labour Party was dealing with an antisemitism scandal — that “The current antisemitism crisis on the left has not come out of nowhere. Instead, it has its roots in a tradition on the left itself, which, at best, has always had difficulty in responding swiftly to antisemitism and, at worst, excused or condoned, even promoted it.”
Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, pointed out just over a month ago in The Hill that: “The core of this new antisemitism lies in the idea that Jews are not a historically oppressed people seeking self-preservation but instead oppressors: imperialists, colonialists, and even white supremacists.”
In other words, antisemitism fits right in there with all the rest of the neo-Marxist claptrap that long ago took over colleges across the country and has infected other institutions as graduates of these colleges made their way out into the world.
Google employees teaching its AI and Hamas-supporting students chanting genocidal slogans such as “from the river to the sea” have been fed a steady diet of anti-Israel propaganda by leftist teachers and professors.
Are there antisemites on the right? Of course. But whenever that crops up it’s always front-page news, and even when it doesn’t crop up the left is constantly labeling conservative fascists for wanting to cut the size and intrusiveness of the federal government.
But antisemitism on the left has been allowed to grow and fester in the dark and is now bursting forth for all to see.
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