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An example that comes to mind is that Apple's chief of diversity (a black woman) was recently fired and replaced by a white woman for the following comment: >
by nilkn 9y ago
An example that comes to mind is that Apple's chief of diversity (a black woman) was recently fired and replaced by a white woman for the following comment:
> "There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation."
I find this to be a pretty mundane statement, and it's fairly spectacular to me that a 20 year veteran of the company was fired for saying it. I also think there's a lot of irony in the fact that Apple removed a black woman from a position of power just because she suggested that diversity as a concept should not be reduced completely to skin color and gender.
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So the problem is not with the criticism of ideas. It's that folks are being fired or completely ostracized for ideas that deviate even slightly from established consensus.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago1) That's very different from the example Sam gave. 2) Is that a problem of speech or a problem of the authoritarian nature of corporate power?
- nilkn 9y agoSam gave an example of someone feeling sufficiently ostracized that they left the region. I don't see how that's very different. Feeling forced out of the city or region is very similar to being fired from a corporate job.
- GuiA 9y agoAll news outlets report her leaving of her own accord. https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-and-inclusion-denise-young-smith-is-leaving/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-and-... https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-leaving/ https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-l... Please post a source documenting that person being fired.