While Google continues to pride itself on being nominally politically unbiased, some of its employees don't appear to bother hiding their leanings - or watching their language while expressing them. One such employee sparked an outrage by launching a bad-mouthed attack on Republicans on Twitter.
Screenshot of the now-deleted tweet by Dave Hogue / Twitter
Once the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh in a 50-48 vote, Dave Hogue, whose Twitter and Linkedin profiles identify him as a lead designer at Google, lashed out at the lawmakers in the fiery tirade.
I hope the last images burned into your slimy, evil treasonous retinas are millions of women laughing and clapping and celebrating as your souls descend into the flamesHogue argued that with Kavanaugh's elevation, the Republicans "polished the final nail for your own coffins."
"F*CK. YOU. ALL. TO. HELL," the disgruntled designer wrote.
The inciting tweet has prompted GOP supporters to hit back at the designer.
Facing a backlash from conservatives, Hogue promptly deleted his tweet. In a follow-up post, he admitted that he "should have been more eloquent and less condemning," and this time worded his aversion to the Republicans much more diplomatically.
Political commentator Tammy Bruce has alerted the FBI and the Secret Service to Hogue's remark, while asking Google if the company approves of that kind of behavior among its high-ranking staff.
Some argued that since Hogue has "Design Lead at Google" in his profile description, he cannot distance himself from the company, demanding it take disciplinary action.
In a reference to how the Democrats argued against Kavanaugh, one user said that Hogue is apparently not fit to hold a senior position at Google as he "lacks the temperament" for the job.
While Google has repeatedly denied it favors one political party over the other, it has often been called out on bias against US President Donald Trump and the conservative community.
Trump has accused Google of burying conservative news and promoting President Barack Obama's speeches as well as "shadow banning" prominent Republicans politicians, including senators. Google has refuted all the accusations.
In January, Ex-Google engineer James Damore filed a class action lawsuit against the tech giant. Damore was fired in August, 2017, after he circulated a memo in which he purported to explain the lack of women in software-engineering jobs not by gender discrimination, but by their lesser interest in the subject as compared to men. It also proposed reasons such as "neuroticism" as a contributing factor to the lower number of women in senior positions.
In the lawsuit he filed with another fired employee, David Gudeman, Damore alleged that Google encouraged workers to attack employees with other-than-liberal political viewpoints and failed to protect supporters within the company of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in the run-up to the elections.
"Damore, Gudeman, and other class members were ostracized, belittled, and punished for their heterodox political views, and for the added sin of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians and/or males," the lawsuit states.
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I know from my own relationship with emotion, where when I am energetically exhausted or over stressed, I allow it to take the lead when posting on social media, that this is fairly normal behavior. It's difficult to maintain coherence when under the kind of culture war stress we are all being subjected to today, but the Far Leftists have it 10 x harder (or worse, it would seem); their mode of operating is to deny reality, and thus it takes more work and energy to maintain their illusion as Objective Reality is wont to intrude constantly. Their irritation level is always high, leading to hysteria and thus results in outbursts of this sort.
This is one of those cases where the wisdom holds: "Don't blame Evil when Stupid will suffice for an explanation."