Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal slams LinkedIn as platform removes his post on ‘pronoun illness’

Take a look at the post here:

Dear @LinkedIn this post of mine was about YOUR AI imposing a political ideology on Indian users that’s unsafe, sinister.

Rich of you to call my post unsafe! This is exactly why we need to build own tech and AI in India. Else we’ll just be pawns in others political objectives. pic.twitter.com/ZWqiM90eT1

— Bhavish Aggarwal (@bhash) May 9, 2024

Aggarwal’s post reached over 1,17,000 X users, triggering a sea of reactions. Agreeing with the businessman, a user commented, “Salute to you Bhavesh for voicing out an uncomfortable but ugly truth about woke foreign influence. We stand with you”. Another user wrote, “A bigger proof how the agenda of Wokeism is totally executed by US based corporations.”

“Once upon a time, only Royalty was allowed to use the pronoun, We,” a third user reacted.

On May 6, Aggarwal, in a post, called gender pronouns an ‘illness’. Sharing an AI bot’s reply to a query, he wrote, “Most of us in India have no clue about politics of this pronouns illness. People do it because it’s become expected in our corporate culture, especially MNCs. Better to send this illness back where it came from. Our culture has always had respect for all. No need for new pronouns.”

Most of us in India have no clue about politics of this pronouns illness. People do it because it’s become expected in our corporate culture, especially MNCs

Better to send this illness back where it came from. Our culture has always had respect for all. No need for new pronouns pic.twitter.com/lo3eLHDGpH

— Bhavish Aggarwal (@bhash) May 5, 2024

The said post triggered a debate on social media over the use of gender pronouns in India.