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Apple Fires Newly Hired Ex-Facebook Product Manager Following Revelations of Past Misogynistic Comments
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So it’s ok when it’s against someone you don’t like. Got it.
Oh and by the way, he received multiple awards from people that “didn’t look like him”. Just ask Oprah, Sharpton, and Jackson. But that’s when he was a democrat….
You bet he would. Lots of eyes wide closed on the religious left.
He did a lot more than slap Dee Barnes.
Then there was Tairrie B:
And then there was Michel'le - he broke her nose.
Dre was also hired at a time when cancel culture wasn’t as prevalent.
Times change, perceptions change, and I guess even Apple isn’t immune to peer pressure in this regard, I suppose.
Of course.
Now let's swap "women" with "men" in the quote from the petitioners. How many of those 2000 people would sign that?
The problem with whataboutism, is that it doesn’t take in to account any of the finer points of a discussion. It’s a very similar vein as to when people say things like ‘why don’t we have a white lives matter… blah blah’ when speaking of Black Lives Matter. To say that it’s missing the point is an gross understatement.
Men, specifically white ones, have been at the top of the pile in society for a long long time. Controlling and suppressing everything that isn’t them. This includes women.
So to answer your question, the reason a petition like that wouldn’t have taken off so drastically, is because there doesn’t need to be a mass discussion on how to protect men against casual abuse in the same way there does for women.
Sure all men have problems, but they’re very much personal ground level problems, not problems to a mass scale which affect you simply because you’re a man - as it does with women, people of colour etc.
The simple fact this needs explaining is petrifying.
Western society: we support and give the right to people to fully express themselves and the right to freedom of speech
also western society: we will banish and punish all those who resist the popular ideology in society until he gives in to our system of beliefs.
Newspeak by ministry of truth if you ask me.
also western society: we will banish and punish all those who resist the popular ideology in society until he gives in to our system of beliefs.
Newspeak by ministry of truth if you ask me.
As been pointed out numerous times freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences, just freedom from prior restraint by the government, or, being forced to speak.
That is true of society since the dawn of time. Groups do tend not to tolerate deviations from the social norms and take actions to silence them. While it often is painted in idealogical terms, it's not a left - right conservative - liberal differentiator; the differentiator is what speech or actions you want silenced.
More like human nature.
If you don’t want your comments public, maybe don’t put them in a book?
lol, she wouldn’t give a crap. You people are so presumptuous in that you believe everyone toes your social justice death line. Here’s a tip: most people don’t care, not least a 75 year old woman. Hahaha!
Do all societies agree some opinions are not just different but clearly wrong and dangerous? Of course. If you promote violence, your words are to be considered violent too and you must be punished. Some opinions can't be tolerated. If someone thinks black people are inferior and says it on the internet, I'm very glad if he gets fired.
...but surely in cases like this, it can be much harder to draw a line. First off, I'm glad there is severe evaluation recently, especially for people who are powerful and influential, even though I understand and partially share the fear that we may, in some situation, fall into rulings that are too hard. What seems wrong is that companies decide based on public opinion because they care about profit. I certainly support the right of people who think they're been fired for no valid reason to seek justice. All rules that are born to protect someone risk to harm innocent people and we must consider that. It's not a perfect system but it's better than just letting all potentially dangerous opinions flow with no consequence like it used to be.
If a white man kills a black man, it’s hate crime. If a black man kills a white man, it’s racial justice! Right? Since slavery and stuff? We should champion two criminal justice systems! Fair and just!
Showing ignorance doesn’t promote understanding of an opposing argument.
So when BLM is precisely protesting "two criminal justice systems", you are advocating two speech standards, one for men and one for women. See the irony?
There is no irony. There is just you missing the point.
The problem with whataboutism is people don’t want to defend their insane views when they smack up against the wall of reality and put in to context.
I believe the word you’re looking for is social justice.
No, this is the crowding-out effect.
You are hearing this from a very small minority of very noisy people.
The consensus and the public outrage is manufactured.
I read his statement. Nothing was wrong with it. He said bay-area women, not all women. It’s very much true.