In my experience the people who love cancel culture tend to be the absolute worst people. It's as if they know they are going to get caught one day, so they are constantly pointing their finger at others in the hope the attention will stay off of themselves.
Not being hired by Apple isn’t the end of his life. Sounds like you’re prone to the same hyperbole and exaggeration you’re excusing in him.
It’s in the linked article. Two clicks and you’re there.
García Martínez, Antonio. Chaos Monkeys (p. 57). Harper Paperbacks. Kindle Edition.
I think you’ve misunderstood. Regardless, we should be considerate of misogynists too, don’t you think? What if the harm that’s being done is not sufficiently favoring for it to be worth it?
Way to gloss over what he said. That wasn’t even half of it. Now you’re not even trying to be honest.
And his book will sell more than it ever has.
Given the further replies in this thread by the quoted poster, I think I understood perfectly well.
You seem to think they’re in opposition to getting caught. I’m fairly certain they meant there was incentive not to get caught.
Because of power. Rights, when decoupled with responsibilities, is power. Power to silence the opposition. Power to manufacture consent. Power to establish rules and norms. Power to coin the narrative. Power to financially decimate and reputationally discredit anyone who doesn’t play into your tune.
Giving him the absolute most benefit of the doubt possible, it was done in bad taste and shows bad judgement. The bad judgement is a good reason to not want to have someone working for you.
I'm pretty sure he can find other jobs, worse ones, but he won't be starving. If we keep on putting people who think it's normal to make "rude comments" of that kind in important positions, it will always be normal. We decided it shouldn't be, so we are getting more severe until the lesson is learnt, not to punish some people but to let other people work in a safe environment.
