Nearly 1,000 Apple employees sign
letter calling on Tim Cook to issue
statement supporting Palestinians
Business Insider,
by
Tyler Sonnemaker
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/20/2021 7:22:30 PM
Nearly 1,000 Apple employees have signed an internal letter to CEO Tim Cook urging the company to issue a public statement in support of the Palestinian people, The Verge reported Thursday. "We are frustrated and disappointed because once more, many of those in positions of power and influence - who boldly stand for human rights in so many other just causes - either choose to remain silent or release ineffectually neutral 'both sides' statements with regards to the Palestinian situation," wrote the letter's authors, who are members of the Apple Muslim Association, according to The Verge. Apple taking a "both sides" approach
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mathman 5/20/2021 7:28:14 PM (No. 791979)
Fire them all.
Apple is not a political entity.
Apple is a business, providing goods and services.
If the employees want to do politics, they can go get jobs in not-for-profit corporations.
Otherwise they can quit. No one forces them to work for Apple.
49 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
JonR 5/20/2021 7:30:26 PM (No. 791980)
I have been with Apple for a long time and have a lot of money tied up in many devices! However, I am sick of these successful companies getting politically involved and I am really disgusted with these POS employees who think that they have a platform to codify their hate and anti Semitic behavior! If Apple doesn’t respond to this hate and stamp it out, I will take my business elsewhere despite the costs involved!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/20/2021 7:35:03 PM (No. 791981)
OP's statement is absolutely, poetically perfect.
19 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
jfodoch 5/20/2021 7:35:47 PM (No. 791982)
I'll never believe this wasn't coerced ...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/20/2021 7:48:32 PM (No. 791994)
Looks like a great opportunity to thin the ranks of deadwood employees and reward the high achievers.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 5/20/2021 7:50:57 PM (No. 791999)
So, terrorist supporters at Apple. That's pretty evil of them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
leonardo 5/20/2021 7:52:34 PM (No. 792001)
Apparently "know-nothings" have apparently aspired to gain control of a myriad of entities from corporations (like Big Tech) to nations (like ours) and now consider themselves qualified, with no knowledge of history, but surety in their FEELINGS, to purport to "make the rules," demanding that the rest of us follow along with their tantrum-like demands, like lemmings, or else. See my finger your majesty?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/20/2021 7:55:50 PM (No. 792006)
One can only imagine the response from Apple if a 1000 employees signed a letter demand the company support Israel and Jews. The 'Progeressive' leaders at Apple (by the way, Progressive means amongst other things, Anti-Semite) would fire the employees before Biden could knock off his bedtime sippy cup!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/20/2021 8:05:51 PM (No. 792014)
Steve Jobs was said to have stayed deliberately apolitical - that to do otherwise was bad for business...
9 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/20/2021 8:07:50 PM (No. 792017)
PS. All those techies and not one with the brains to now that Hamas is a terrorist organization. It is not equal to the Palestinians. Hamas isc causing trouble for both the non-Hamas Palestinians as well as Israel.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
downnout 5/20/2021 8:14:50 PM (No. 792021)
Hey Apple,
Make good products, sell them, make profits and everyone (except the SJWs) will be happy. Thanx.
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/20/2021 8:24:43 PM (No. 792025)
Are the employees at Apple political activists or product developers? Working at Apple must be like living on a different planet among aliens that know nothing about being human.
7 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
realestateacct 5/20/2021 8:31:42 PM (No. 792028)
Not very impressive when Google says Apple has 137,000 employees. Not even 1%.
12 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/20/2021 8:35:32 PM (No. 792030)
Screw these people and may the Palestinians be completely destroyed by God.
11 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Geoman 5/20/2021 9:40:46 PM (No. 792059)
Re: OP - Perhaps relocating them to Tel Aviv might give them a little better perspective on Palestinian Hamas terrorists trying to kill you and your family as you go about your business.
6 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Californian 5/20/2021 9:43:14 PM (No. 792065)
Note that Apple refused to respond to the story or apparently to the terrorist employees on their pay roll.
Not making any statements at all about things outside their world of tech is the only reasonable approach. Don't respond. Don't fire anyone. Just ignore and keep working.
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/20/2021 9:46:46 PM (No. 792066)
Take your money Apple is paying you and donate it however you want - individually.
1 person likes this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
marbles 5/20/2021 9:54:12 PM (No. 792068)
When corporations became " woke" and supported blm they gave themselves over to the mob. This is a continuance of that bullying.
5 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/20/2021 10:19:16 PM (No. 792076)
Am glad I have an Android.
2 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 5/20/2021 10:28:17 PM (No. 792085)
“Nearly a thousand snowflake ignorantly misguided Karen’s and Kens”....that’s the real headline.
They dont know jack about human rights!
Move to Gaza if you really believe it!
3 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/20/2021 10:39:35 PM (No. 792094)
These people really need to get some "life" stuck down their throats.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/20/2021 10:39:43 PM (No. 792095)
Tell them to pound sand. No pun intended.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/20/2021 10:47:36 PM (No. 792098)
I'm betting Cook will cave.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 5/20/2021 11:28:47 PM (No. 792130)
I always hated Apple's totalitarian approach to software, starting back in the 80s. "My way or the highway" has been their mantra. "No, you CANNOT put your software on our computers!" So, for decades, they had 4-6% of the market.
I was offered a free iPad and turned it down.
1 person likes this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/21/2021 12:08:31 AM (No. 792151)
oh, ssssso, that's where all the numbnuts are in this country.
2 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/21/2021 1:57:48 AM (No. 792188)
Must be Apple only hires terrorist loving employees. What's the secret interview question? I'll never buy an Apple product. Period.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 5/21/2021 5:37:41 AM (No. 792217)
Apple, Coke is on line one. They want to talk to you.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/21/2021 5:38:33 AM (No. 792218)
Jihad is everywhere; it's important that Apple stamp it out in it's domain or they are complicit!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/21/2021 9:14:18 AM (No. 792418)
#15, the Gaza Strip works just fine since 20% or more of the Hamas rockets land on their own people. Putting the Apple SJWs there would mean that they would be in danger and living in squalor - it’s a twofer.
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