From the reviews of his book, and Douglas Murray's own comments about it, it appears his premise is that sexism, racism and homophobia are now “over”, therefore feminism, etc, are unnecessary.
Does that seem accurate from what you've read of it?
I'm not sure you'll find much agreement with that belief on this board. Or indeed anywhere on MN – have you seen the relationship board?
If Murray is working from the premise that this oppression doesn't exist, it's hardly surprising if he doesn't see it.
I despise the use of identity to cause division and set people against each other. It's so often expressed in terms of “You're an X; so you must be utterly different from and against that Y person,” quite ignoring the fact we're both Qs and indeed humans, and have as much in common as we have different. It's a constant attempt to promote division.
However I'm not daft enough to think that therefore I don't have these identities at all, or that other people won't treat me according to their perception of them. I'm not going to not be raped if I don't think of myself as a woman, or not be discriminated against for promotion if I was still a 20-something woman.
As it happens, Google has a history of returning racist results, including famously categorising photos of black people as gorillas in 2015. Some of this is because of algorithms not being very good (Google recognises this and is working on them); some is, as PP say, because Google reflects what's on the internet.
Google alters search autocomplete to remove 'are Jews evil' suggestion
www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-alters-search-autocomplete-remove-are-jews-evil-suggestion
This is not the first time Google and others’ autocomplete and search algorithms have caused offence. An auto-suggested photo tag within Google’s Photos service in July 2015 labelled two black teenagers as “Gorillas”. Google apologised andsaid it was workingon “longer term fixes” around the recognition of dark-skinned faces as well as the linguistics of photo labels.
In May 2015, Google apologised when the White Housewas returned as a resultfor searches for “n [...] house” and “n [...] king” within Google maps.
Google declined to explain why the results occurred but a spokesperson said: “Some inappropriate results are surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologise for any offence this may have caused.”
In April this year Google apologised after a search for “unprofessional hairstyles for work” yielded image results showing predominantly black women with natural hair, while searching for “professional” ones returned pictures of coiffed, white women.
In June, Google’s image search also caused offence by returning criminal mugshots for searches of “three black teenagers” but not for “three white teenagers”.