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Karan Bhatia, Google’s global policy chief, told employees in a staff meeting last week that Taylor wasn’t involved in the Trump administration’s policy of sepa
by maroonblazer 7y ago
Karan Bhatia, Google’s global policy chief, told employees in a staff meeting last week that Taylor wasn’t involved in the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S. southern border. But on Oct. 28, BuzzFeed News published emails showing that Taylor had in fact shaped talking points for Nielsen on the administration’s detention of migrant children.
Shaping talking points is quite different than crafting policy. Did no one on the Google message boards recognize that?
- sidlls 7y agoGoebbels shaped talking points, too. I don't think merely "shaping talking points" is any kind of defense, regardless of whatever the controversy is around the policy the talking points are being shaped. On the other hand, whether this is truly something employees of a company should be concerned about is also at issue. There are many other things a company of Google's size does which are (probably) highly objectionable: what makes this one special?
- RickJWagner 7y agoObama separated families, too. Would the Googlers have the same stance? I doubt it. I think this is 'bubble politics'.
- ineedasername 7y agoI think there's a difference between the Obama administration of both scale and intent. The scale was ramped up dramatically with an explicit intent to punish people with losing their family. So yeah, part of it is bubble politics, but there's still a qualitative and quantitative difference.
- geofft 7y agoIf you go into the bubble and ask, a large number of folks are now upset at Obama too - they just didn't know at the time, and he's no longer in power.
- sidlls 7y agoI was and am no fan of Obama, either. But that isn't relevant to the point.