Google donates to Cindy Hyde-Smith days after public hanging comments leak - Polidicks

https://popular.info/p/after-lynching-comments-google-donates U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) was caught on tape "joking" about her willingness to attend a lynching at a campaign event in November. "If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row," Hyde-Smith said on November 2. The small crowd responded with laughter and applause. Since the video became public on Sunday, Hyde-Smith has refused to apologize, claiming her remarks were a complement. “I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous,” Hyde-Smith said in a statement. One corporation that apparently was unbothered by Hyde-Smith’s remarks: Google. On Tuesday, Google donated $5000 to Hyde-Smith’s campaign, according to documents filed with the FEC. Hyde-Smith faces Democrat Mike Espy in a run-off election on November 27. A group of ministers from the Jackson, Mississippi area called on her to apologize and resign. At a press conference on Monday, Hyde-Smith robotically refused to answer any questions about her lynching comments. Eventually, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R) intervened and attempted to deflect criticism by accusing black women of genocide. Google previously donated $10,000 to the Making America Prosperous PAC, the leadership PAC of Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX). Making America Prosperous gave Congressman Steve King (R-IA) a cash infusion after other corporate donors abandoned him over his ties to white nationalism.

Google cares a lot about ethics internally, but pretty much not at all with donations. This is pretty par-for-the-course behavior when it comes to large, consumer-facing corporations.

Eh, if creeps like James Damore are any indication, Google is perfectly fine being a cesspit internally too, just as long as they don't get called out on it.

What was the supposed context of her comment? The article won't open for me.

She was talking fondly of a rancher who is standing with her, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row"

that really doesn't sound that bad at all (but maybe it's just me). kinda obvious it's indicative of how attractive someone is to her, rather than how (not) unattractive hanging someone is

sorry but public hanging in the united states isn't something you use in conversation this way, at all people are still being hung for the color of their skin here.

What is wrong with you?

I read this post the first time and I was like "okay that's an acceptable post" but then I read it again. Dude, you're Australian so you don't know the history of lynchings not only in the US in general, but Mississippi in particular. Mississippi has the record for recorded lynchings, Hyde-Smith is of the age when people were literally lynched when she was young. There are still alleged racially motivated hanging murders happening there today.

Google is not our friend.

At this point, I fully believe that misinformation is the most powerful tool used, and both "political alignments" are using it to their fullest extent. The Damore memo lacked any judgments or declarations that "tech wasn't for women", it in fact, looked at ways to get women more interested in tech, based off of the science we have on hand of early childhood gender differences. But hey, it's easier to just state something without any intent of having further intelligent discussions.

ASparkle does not process incoming information when it comes to this shit

I agree, however, there were the recent walkouts so that would've been a better point of evidence but as Geel pointed out, ASparkle doesn't use their noggin.

It's almost like corporate stances on morality are just good PR that some people (read: fanboys) end up falling for. Like Apple and it's "support" of LGTBQ issues and other progressive casues locally, while simultaneously not giving a shit about freedom as a whole abroad - cause there's too much money to be made kowtowing to the demands of authoritarian police states like China.

yup. you're right. i had no idea that there was a history of lynchings in the area, and was interpreting it as a general statement. given the context, i can say she's a fuckin' idiot

Wait what now, what have you got against James Damore and why exactly is he a creep? and why are there 16 people (at the time) also agreeing with this comment...?

It's seriously getting to the point where I will outright not trust someone if they're in a high-income bracket. The plane of reality these people live on is pure insanity.

because misinformation is a helluva drug. I read the Damore memo, front to back. I know ASparkle hasn't. It doesn't contain what the media says it does, and it's just depressing to watch people hand over foot regurgitate ideologically comfortable talking points that are verifiably false.

Most likely because of the second part: Might not have that much to do with Damore and more to do with stuff like this https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18075936/google-walkout-protest-movement-sexual-harassmesnt-policy-change The spark was the revelation that Android co-founder Andy Rubin was paid $90 million to leave the company in 2014, following a sexual assault allegation. Yet Google’s mishandling of the case is just the latest misstep from the search giant this year that has contributed to a widening gap of trust between executive leadership and employees. Protest organizers say they now have a template to push for more change at Google going forward.

She could have said any fucking thing else. Mississippi has the most recorded lynchings of any state and they were still happening when she was young. Because she went to that initially I don't give her the benefit of the doubt she's at best just racist.