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- A scheduled talk by US-based Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan was cancelled by Google after the company allegedly buckled under pressure from employees who claimed that their “lives were at risk” if Thenmozhi went ahead.
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Jun 2, 2022 · Thenmozhi Soundararajan was uninvited from giving a talk at Google about caste bias after some employees said such discrimination doesn't exist.
Jun 3, 2022 · A scheduled talk by US-based Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan was cancelled by Google after the company allegedly buckled under pressure from employees who claimed that their “lives...
Jun 4, 2022 · In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder of Equality Labs, a Dalit civil rights organisation, was scheduled to give a lecture to employees of Google News during Dalit History Month....
Jun 5, 2022 · Days after a scheduled talk by US-based Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan was cancelled by Google, the Alphabet Workers’ Union (AWU) has spoken about about caste discrimination within the...
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Some things have changed. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have started moderating caste-based hate speech on their platforms. Dell, Apple and Amazonnow include caste-proficiency in some employee manuals and trainings. But Dalit tech workers say that’s not enough. While caste policies are sweeping some sectors, like academia, it’s still not an explici...
An unmoderated message board used by more than 8,700 South Asian workers at Google is home to attacks and disagreements, as well as discriminatory statements about Dalits, staff members said. Google employees that are on the group say some dominant caste members have called Dalits "less educated" and equated caste equity to reverse discrimination. ...
Soundararajan felt like she was in the dark after her talk was abruptly canceled. She said she appealed to multiple managers at Google in an effort to get her talk reinstated, and was ultimately given little explanation as to why it was snuffed. A company higher-up told her “‘caste is not a protected category, so Google isn’t mandated to have these...
Indian American Google CEO Sundar Pichai has long been vocal on issues of equality. In a note sent to the entire company in June 2020, he called out the “structural and systemic racism that Black people have experienced over generations.” He committed to improving representation in Google employees of all levels, starting anti-racism programming, d...
- Sakshi Venkatraman
- Reporter, NBC Asian America
Jun 4, 2022 · The allegation was made after Dalit rights activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan, founder and executive director of the organisation, was not allowed to go ahead with a scheduled talk to Google News employees in April as part of the Dalit History Month.
Jun 3, 2022 · In her June 1 letter accessed by The Washington Post, Gupta said she had invited Soundararajan for a talk because employees at Google had complained about caste discrimination at their workplace.
