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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by mschuster91 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:30AM (#25314060)
> what’s the issue with “globalist”

It's a white-supremacist dog whistle for "jew": https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-how-did-the-term-gl...

> the soap dispenser wasn’t “racist”, it was just “bad”

For a person of color who wants to wash their hand and sees that it dispenses soap for white people but not for them it is yet another piece of everyday racism.

Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by tomp on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:09AM (#25314261)
I think that “dog-whistle” is a dog-whistle for wokeist people who prefer to insult others as racists instead of making actual rational arguments.

As for “globalist”, I don’t see an issue with criticising globalism and those who promote it, be they Jews or others. Clearly a lot of Jews (in Israel) are very “localist”, and I suppose there are some that are “globalist” as well. So?

Just because a view is also supported by some or other “vile” people (that are almost always a tiny minority, if disproportionately loud and/or salient), doesn’t make that view invalid or immoral.

Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by dash2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:39AM (#25314101)
Globalist probably can be used as a dog-whistle, but we do need a word for people who support free trade, free migration, borderless finance etc. That’s a quite common position. Indeed, the Haaretz article you link to is considerably more ambiguous than just saying “globalism is a bad word and must be banned “.