It Is Getting Ugly Out There

For John, BLUF:  The exposure of people willng to put down hispanics in the name of putting down Caucasians who don't conform to today's woke definitions.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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On the Hypocrites at Apple Who Canceled Antonio Garcia-Martinez

Here is the sub-headline:

Much easier to ruin a career than mess with a corporate cash cow

From TK News, by Writer Matt Taibbi, 14 March 2021.

Here is the lede plus two:

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.

Garcia-Martinez is a brilliant, funny, multi-talented Cuban-American whose confessional memoir Chaos Monkeys is to big tech what Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker was to finance.  A onetime high-level Facebook executive — he ran Facebook Ads — Antonio’s book shows the House of Zuckerberg to be a cult full of on-the-spectrum zealots who talked like justice activists while possessing the business ethics of Vlad the Impaler:

Facebook is full of true believers who really, really, really are not doing it for the money, and really, really will not stop until every man, woman, and child on earth is staring into a blue-framed window with a Facebook logo.

Writer Matt Taibbi shows nothing but distain for the executives, and workers, at Apple, who hired and then fired, in short order, Mr Antonio García-Martínez.  I don't know Mr García-Martínez from Adam's Odd Ox.  However, it looks like the mob is coming for him and those of us still sane need to stand by him, in whatever way we can.

It isn't like Mr García-Martínez was a buddy of Mr Jeffrey Epstein.  Nor is Mr García-Martínez a known spouse abuser.  However, it is obvious that Apple employees have no sense of humor and no sense of tolerence for the opinions of others if they diverge from the accepted line.  That means we are approaching the French Revolution stage known as the Reign of Terror.

You have been warned.

Regards  —  Cliff