Thread by @SolomonMKassa

1/ A reflection about @timnitGebru's recent commenc. speech at @UCBerkeley! I've known her for 5 years now. My 1st encounter was when we met to feature her as a guest on my TV show. Our convo was great. I've a respect for her. She is someone with a solid academic/prof credential

2/ She is fighting to create an equitable digital future by ensuring AI won’t go astray. When our sisters didn’t have someone to look up to who looks/speaks like them, I was happy to have @timnitGebru on my show. I'll always be open for her to come inspire the next gen in #STEM.

3/ Her journey has been inspiring & the equity of black women in STEM was/is so important to me that I also featured her in the book that I've authored & published in 2018 so that many could follow in her footsteps. I also defended her publicly during her departure from Google.

4/ It's because this high regard I've for her that it shocked me to see @timnitGebru, a well-educated individual with a PhD who believes in empirical evidence & who tries to fight AI’s ethics issue globally, decided to inaccurately claim the war in #Ethiopia as a 'genocide'...

5/ And also throw a non-evidence-based number of Tigrayan causalities as 500,000 at her commencement speech in @UCBerkeley. Just disturbing to see that she decided to lead her activism on #Ethiopia in such a misguided & a radicalized way, unlike her scientific research/endeavor

6/ Also, her focus on one ethnic group and completely ignoring the atrocities of other Ethiopians due to the war completely contradicts with her own argument of “why do we ignore the war in #Ethiopia while paying all the attention to the war in #Ukraine?” #UCBerkeley #CalGrad

7/ We all know the war brought carnage to so many in Ethiopia, so why does @timnitGebru also ignore (by going against her own #Ethiopia vs #Ukraine argument) the atrocities of other Ethiopians while she pays all the attention to one ethnic group? #UCBerkeley #CalGrad