Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians in internal letter

Post by fortran77 » Fri, May 21, 2021, 1:40 AM UTC

kazoomonger wrote: post #35

fortran77 wrote: post #24

The same Apple employees who got a petition together to get a Jewish employee, Anthony Garcia Martinez, who is unashamed of his support of Israel, fired? (I'll bet you wondered why he wasn't given consideration as a "latinx" employee. It's because he's Jewish.) As Martinez said to Apple, "This will be your life now every week." https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1395515386402021377 I still use an iPhone. I'm going…

This is kind of a non-sequitur. Jewish people are allowed to have weird gender-based opinions and get fired for them too, just like everyone else. I don't really have a strong opinion on the overall actions by Apple, but people being offended by this quote is orthogonal to what ethnicity he is: > Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full o…

Post by fortran77 » Fri, May 21, 2021, 1:42 AM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #36

fortran77 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's amusing that people never seem to get excited about India and Pakistan's fight over Kashmir (and Apple has employees in India), England and Ireland's fight over Northern Ireland (again, Apple has a presence in Ireland) or other violent land disputes around the world where their company does business. And the civil wars in Sudan (Apple gets some "3TG" materials from there), and civil rights abuses in China.

Exactly. It’s not sincere and it’s about politicking and acting like the savior in armor for whomever is the righteous cause today. There are wars and abuse in North Africa, but they could give a rat’s ass because it’s not in their conscience at the moment or the enemy is not a convenient enemy they can despise.

Post by kazoomonger » Fri, May 21, 2021, 1:47 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #41

kazoomonger wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is kind of a non-sequitur. Jewish people are allowed to have weird gender-based opinions and get fired for them too, just like everyone else. I don't really have a strong opinion on the overall actions by Apple, but people being offended by this quote is orthogonal to what ethnicity he is: > Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full o…

You read one sentence from a well-reviewed popular book, because someone told you to read it and get outraged! C'mon now. Be honest with yourself. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/books/review/chaos-monkey... Nobody noticed this when the book came out. A posse was out to get him, and scrutinized this book with a fine-toothed comb.

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Post by bsaul » Fri, May 21, 2021, 8:10 AM UTC

geofft wrote: post #23

bsaul wrote: post #6

It’s about time the continuous flow of statements from big corporations around political (supposedly consensual) issues start to backfire. Just make your customers happy, don’t strongarm them, don’t overprice your products, and pay taxes, is all people are really asking from corporations.

This isn't a statement from a big corporation, though. This is a statement from employees of the big corporation (presumably all of whom feel comfortable leaving on a moment's notice) to the corporation. Companies have long known that making your customers happy involves retaining skilled employees, and that incurring extra costs to keep skilled employees happy is worthwhile for the business. Sometimes that involves…