Steven Crowder racist and homophobic said YouTube remarks did not violate its policies

Earlier this month, conservative commentator Steven Crowder racist and homophobic said YouTube remarks did not violate its policies. Activists expressed concerns that came after regarding Google’s participation in Pride in light of YouTube’s response to homophobic and racist content on its platform. Earlier today, Google’s about 100 employees urged SF Pride to ban the company from participating in this weekend’s Pride parade and drop the company as a sponsor. SF Pride says Google will be allowed to march in the parade despite Google employees petitioning San Francisco Pride to exclude the company from participating this weekend in the Pride parade. YouTube and Google can and must do more to elevate and protect the voices of LGBTQ+ creators on their platforms, “We appreciate the engagement of community members with their concerns about Google who reached out to San Francisco Pride,” SF Pride said in a statement. and we have found that Google has been willing to listen to this criticism and is working to develop appropriate policies. They have much work to do and they have acknowledged promoting respectful discussion and exchange of ideas.” YouTube, allows abuse and hate and discrimination against LGBTQ+ persons, then Pride must not provide the company with a platform that paints it in a rainbow veneer of support for those very persons. “The employees wrote on Medium that we feel we have no choice but to urge you to reject Google’s failure to act in support of our community by revoking their sponsorship of Pride and excluding Pride parade in the from Google official representation,”. “If another official platform, On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, in a Pride celebration whose very slogan is “Generations of Resistance”, we ask you to join us in resisting LGBTQ+ oppression on the internet, and the subjugation of our right to equality in favor of calculated business concerns. So now must this Pride be one and the first Pride was a protest.” Google has been a long-term supporter for years and that the company has historically been a good ally to the LGBTQ+ community SF Pride goes on to say. Google, obviously, agrees. We are excited to continue the tradition this weekend Google has marched in the San Francisco Pride Parade for more than a decade and Pride’s partnership and leadership we are grateful for SF. Furthermore, employees say they fear retaliation from Google for speaking out and protesting during the parade but employees feel otherwise. The company that it will look at the policies, despite claims from the employees says they’re never given a true commitment to improving.