On the Hypocrites at Apple Who Fired Antonio
Garcia-Martinez
Substack,
by
Matt Taibbi
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/16/2021 1:16:41 AM
I’m biased, because I know Antonio Garcia-Martinez and something like the same thing once happened to me, but the decision by Apple to bend to a posse of internal complainers and fire him over a passage in a five-year-old book is ridiculous hypocrisy. Hypocrisy by the complainers, and defamatory cowardice by the bosses — about right for the Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style era of timorous conformity and duncecap monoculture the woke mobs at these places are trying to build as their new Jerusalem.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 5/16/2021 1:18:12 AM (No. 786961)
Apple's Dr Dre is different because billions of dollars makes it so.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
web 5/16/2021 1:46:57 AM (No. 786968)
If apple really wanted to make the world more just, they would tear down their apple headquarters building and plant the orchard that used to be there while I lived in Cupertino. It contributed much more to the world than they ever will.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 5/16/2021 4:59:40 AM (No. 787024)
#2. Was it an apple orchard? The irony if it was..
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Subsuburban 5/16/2021 5:11:17 AM (No. 787030)
A remarkable turn-about by a formerly "stunning and brave" social justice warrior! Taibbi has seen the light, or rather the darkness, and has become a proponent of true justice, rather than the phony brand of "social justice" that has enabled a generation of self-important, selfish, solipsistic, unprincipled moral cretins to take advantage of most Americans' good nature and generosity. I find it gratifying in the extreme to have observed Taibbi, and a few others who, like him, were immediately castigated and exiled from the "woke" community slowly morph into Vox Day. (If you don't know who he is, shame on you!) Vox predicted all of this in his books, "SJW's Always Lie," and "SJW's Always Double Down." Moreover, he advanced the only effective way to counteract the SJW onslaught, as Taibbi has found out, which is to NEVER APOLOGIZE, NEVER BACK DOWN and generally ignore their feeble attacks, which are nothing but online girl-fights consisting of name calling and hair pulling, but never any real sense of actual combat.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NancyD 5/16/2021 7:35:52 AM (No. 787071)
Taibbi is seeing what his leftist community is doing and has been doing to Conservatives for years. This isn't the first time Taibbi pointed out the hypocrisy of the left. I like Matt, I think he's a smart man and I'm glad to read that he is speaking out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Yuban 5/16/2021 8:04:41 AM (No. 787083)
I am confident none of the posters here ever buy Apple products since they are Leftist slave owners. None of us would enable this horrific company, right? Yah, right. Apple is rotten to the core but far too may folk have fallen for the cult known as Apple. We buy their over priced products just like we buy that BMW sitting in our driveway, not in your garage, so everyone can see we own it. We criticize the Left and then turn around and enable them. Shame on Apple, shame on us.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/16/2021 10:17:16 AM (No. 787257)
"..commitment to making our company more inclusive and the world more just. Where every great idea can be heard. And everybody belongs." The most frightening words in the English language of today!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jimkata 5/16/2021 11:36:18 AM (No. 787354)
Remember the lady smashing the Big Brother Screen with the hammer toss in Apple's Macintosh promo many years ago?.
How things have change!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/16/2021 1:22:34 PM (No. 787479)
I like this Garcia-Martinez guy and I intend to buy his book. The excerpts of writing are intelligent and prolific and show a keen mind.
From the Apple Diversity division:
"with programs intended to give voice to women and people of color in technology."
The above statement shows their complete ignorance of the computer and device technology business. Having worked in that sector for most of my entire 48 year career I can accurately tell you that among technical people, about 1 in 4 white guys are talented and productive, Asians and Indians, roughly 1 of every 2, white women about 1 in 12 and for people of color the ratio is too embarrassing to even mention. What it all comes down to is that the corporations obsessed with this nonsense are sacrificing their performance and quality in the name of politics and social justice. But then most of you already knew that.
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