Should you really be fired for things you said 13 years ago?

Also we didn't see the entire context..

> Should you really be fired for things you said 13 years ago?

I think, you shouldn't. Unless you're a head of diversity. Then you must be.

>Also we didn't see the entire context..

The original post is at https://web.archive.org/web/20210602000424/https://www.kamau... , including the final paragraph, which begins

>If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.

I think their point is more that people probably shouldn't get fired for saying something offensive as easily as it is done nowadays.

A blog post from 13 years ago.. which has since been removed.. is different from an email sent internally.

Hopefully nobody will hold me accountable to all the slashdot comments I wrote 10-15 years ago. Taken out of context, I've probably made fantastically horrific statements too.

> which has since been removed

Literally within the past day, along with the rest of his entire blog. This post was still online yesterday!

I also don't see any form of public acknowledgement or apology anywhere on his site or twitter. Perhaps he made one but I just can't find it. I'm not sure how people are affirmatively concluding that his views have changed so substantially since this post.

> Taken out of context

The full post speaks for itself. Nothing is taken out of context here; he's directly making offensive statements about all Jewish people based on stereotypes and actions of the Israeli government, which literally has no relation to the majority of Jewish people in the world.

Are you the head of diversity? If no, then it doesn't matters. You won't have outsized power and influence.

Kind of hard to claim diversity matters when you install a demonstrable racist at the top.

Who else is he discriminating against that we just haven't found yet?