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Apple Fires Newly Hired Ex-Facebook Product Manager Following Revelations of Past Misogynistic Comments
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Oh, that’s not sexist at all. I’m too emotional, because I called you out for glossing over and minimizing what he said. In a book? Good lord.
I’m sure not one employee of Apple has ever said anything or done anything bad ever in their whole lifetime. I’m sure Steve Jobs was never nasty to someone in a meeting or Tim Cook never said a bad word. Just stop already with this. It’s not good on Apple for firing this person it’s shame on them
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Part of working for Apple is working with and for other people. If you see close to half of the staff as weak and conniving (women) or violent (the Black and Latinx employees), how effective are you going to be?
I'm confused. Isn't it entirely his fault?
It's 2021. You can't say stupid stuff and not expect it to come back and bite you.
Didn’t they hire a known woman abuser and also make him a billionaire. 🙄
The book was released long before he was hired by Apple, no? It’s not his fault if Apple doesn’t do their homework.
Hopefully he has learned to not let his mouth over ride his butt.
Oh, why waste time looking at actual facts that could be analyzed and discussed? It’s so much easier to just grab the nearest pitchfork and join the mob. After all, if he wasn’t doing horrible things to women then surely this many people wouldn’t be mad at him! /s
In my opinion, MR should have at least provided reference of the alleged statements.
If the accusations are contextually true, I am not surprised Apple didn’t want to have to defend the new hire on an ongoing basis.
If the accusations are contextually true, I am not surprised Apple didn’t want to have to defend the new hire on an ongoing basis.
It's not that hard to distinguish between remarks about a group of people acting in a certain way who happen to be women and women in general. Or you think anyone bashing white supremacists is racist because the group of people acting that way happen to be from a single race? You can't cherry pick one word from a complex description and start crying about it.
Most of this cancel culture ******** either comes from the utter lack of basic comprehension skills or deliberate spin to push an agenda. US "liberals" bring disgrace on the word liberal. Just invent another word for your twisted ideology, please.
Thank you,
A European liberal.
Apple should apply the same rubrics to the actors they hire for Apple TV productions.
So Apple shouldn’t fire any person with problematic views as long as they don’t fire every person with problematic views?
So? 🤷🏿♂️ If this nonsense becomes fireable offenses society is doomed
Just stop right there. In civilized countries people can't be fired for their views, unless they act on them in their workplace. Liberalism is not about loving everyone, but harming nobody. "I feel offended" doesn't count.
The demise of misogyny. It’s great.
Hard disagree. Awful opinions like this which you try to spread like a plague on society is toxic and there’s no place for it in modern civilization.
Stop making everything a generic rule like "cancel culture" - this is a company reviewing its hiring of a company employee...
"you"? That's a defamation right there.
Correct. Thank you for understanding
I find it amazing that many young people don't see how this line of thinking can and will be turned against them at some point in the future.
I’m curious to know if there were any payouts from Apple to this exec upon his departure that normal salaried workers would not get? It would be unfortunate if an executive was treated any different than anyone else when being terminated for similar rationale. That would be an even bigger slap in the face than the mere offending words he put in his near-decade old book.