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Hey Google, Antisemitism Is A Feature, Not A Bug, Of The Left
Issues & Insights ^ | 13 May, 2024 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 05/13/2024 4:56:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; gigo; google; internet; leftism; marxism

1 posted on 05/13/2024 4:56:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left instinctively sides with evil.


2 posted on 05/13/2024 4:56:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Google: “Can we wait until the next narrative before I answer?”


3 posted on 05/13/2024 5:02:05 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: MtnClimber

There actually were black Confederate soldiers. Maybe not very many.


4 posted on 05/13/2024 5:14:14 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: jroehl

And more than a few black Waffen SS.

The Nazi laws didn’t really address blacks much at all.


5 posted on 05/13/2024 5:20:59 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MtnClimber

Proof that AI is the answer to nothing. As with any thing computer wise - the garbage in, garbage out rule applies. I suspect the only real advantage of AI is that the garbage can be slicker, smellier, more rotten and more adored by the left.

AI is just another of the left’s tools used to manipulate opinion like “studies”, “follow the science” and fake polls are.


6 posted on 05/13/2024 5:26:16 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: MtnClimber

If we ever find out the identities of the people who installed the POTATUS, the leaders of the cabal known as Deep State, we’ll likely learn they are some of the worst bigots and misogynists on the planet.

Betcha...


7 posted on 05/13/2024 5:28:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

How many of Google’s programmers are black?


8 posted on 05/13/2024 5:31:41 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber

It is very interesting that Democrats were KKK and now also antisemitic and yet...most blacks and Jews vote Democrat. How does that happen???


9 posted on 05/13/2024 5:42:17 AM PDT by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


10 posted on 05/13/2024 5:55:04 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: redfreedom

Most of “AI” stands for “Automated Indoctrination”.


11 posted on 05/13/2024 6:13:05 AM PDT by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends" - Barak Hussein Obama)
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To: MtnClimber

The thing that has always puzzled me, is why a Jewish intellectual is so frequently drawn to SUPPORTING communistic or socialistic causes. Almost always, these communistic or socialistic causes gravitate toward anti-Semitism, turning upon the Jewish supporters within their ranks, and yet, the Jewish people cannot seem to shed their enthusiasm for the command-and-control traits inherent in the communistic or socialistic ideologies.

This enthusiasm extends to the economic sphere, and a general rejection of formal religious practice, substituting worship of the state for the worship of and belief in a divine Creator.

Which in manifold ways, this rejection of divine worship not only destroys what it means to even BE Jewish, but makes this rebellion against historic authority an even more grotesque misrepresentation of how the Jewish tradition should be seen by others.

I once pointed out to a very pro-socialist person of Jewish persuasion, that the term “Nazi” was a contraction of “NAtionalist soZIalist”, and was basically a socialist philosophy created by and for Germany. This person was apoplectic that “Nazi” should even be associated with “socialism”, but there you have it.

All command-and-control systems eventually degenerate into finding a scapegoat for all the ills of why the system does not work, and almost always, the Jewish people are singled out for the role. Not the only ones, of course, but one of the most easily isolated.


12 posted on 05/13/2024 6:16:06 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: alloysteel

That has also puzzled me.


13 posted on 05/13/2024 6:22:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Still waiting for all those “journalists” to continually ask democrat politicians “Are you willing to denounce anti-semitism?”


14 posted on 05/13/2024 6:24:28 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MeanWestTexan
The Nazi laws didn’t really address blacks much at all.
Tell that to African Germans, who were castrated.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/afro-germans-during-the-holocaust
15 posted on 05/13/2024 10:50:54 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: alloysteel
Plenty of Jews and non-Jews have explained why so many Jewish intellectuals have a tendency towards socialism. i have my own theories.
1. Aggrandizement from centuries of repression and murder with left-of-center parties largely emancipating Jews. People feel before they think

2. Few intellectuals bother to read of understand Marx and other left-wing antisemites (Voltaire, Proudhin, Lenin, Stalin...) Sadly, what you refuse to know can kill you.
3. Group non-think

4. A longing in the Jewish soul towards perfecting the world and immanentizing the eschaton translates to support for dystopias among most atheists.
16 posted on 05/13/2024 10:58:45 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: motor_racer
Most of “AI” stands for “Automated Indoctrination”.
That is the slogan of the day.
17 posted on 05/13/2024 11:00:26 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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