Apple fired Advertising Platform Specialist Antonio Garcia Martinez two days ago, convicting him of insensitivity to women after cherry picking a few sentences from his universally acclaimed 5-year old book, Chaos Monkeys, and giving those sentences the least-charitable readings possible. Apple announced:
At Apple, we have always strived to create an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone is respected and accepted. Behavior that demeans or discriminates against people for who they are has no place here.
In the meantime (as Matt Taibbi points out), Dr. Dre remains on Apple’s board despite authoring “such classics as “Bitches Ain’t Shit” and “Lyrical Gangbang,” who is also the subject of such articles as “Here’s What’s Missing from Straight Outta Compton: Me and the Other Women Dr. Dre Beat Up.” It sure helps to be a billionaire when you are hoping that your employer will stand up to the Woke mobs.
And then came this: “Offering A Bounty For The Signers of the Apple Petition to Fire Antonio García Martínez.” . Well worth a read.
Of course this link has been removed. Probably censorship based on where our society has landed.
You can’t have it both ways. Why does it seem the rules are different based on race? I thought we had shrines, statues, movies and books dedicated to the great heroes that marched, died and changed our laws to stop this type of discrimination.
I don’t understand the modern calculus. Maybe we’re back to some sort of modern rule like the 3/5th rule. People seem to be worth more or less based on the way they look. I don’t give a rat’s ass what someone looks like, but many other people are obsessed about that. Is race involved in allowing Dr. Dre to stay on the board while Apple fires a highly qualified innocent Latino man that the Twitter mob hates? That one is a billionaire must also be considered.