[HN Gopher] Apple employees call for company to support Palestin...
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       Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians in
       internal letter
        
       Author : lkasdlkdad
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-05-20 21:59 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | I thought they are both at war? And Apple is supposed to
       | interfere?
        
         | wearywanderer wrote:
         | It's called disinvestment and it's not a new concept. For
         | instance in years past, activists called upon companies to
         | disinvest from apartheid South Africa. Among those activists
         | was a man you may have heard of, Barack Obama.
        
       | bsaul wrote:
       | It's about time the continuous flow of statements from big
       | corporations around political (supposedly consensual) issues
       | start to backfire.
       | 
       | Just make your customers happy, don't strongarm them, don't
       | overprice your products, and pay taxes, is all people are really
       | asking from corporations.
        
       | dmitrygr wrote:
       | Can somebody please explain to me this modern fashion of
       | employees attempting to strongarm CEOs to publicly voice views
       | irrelevant to the company's mission? I've been seeing a lot of
       | this lately and I simply don't understand it. Should CEOs also be
       | forced to publicly state that smoking is bad for you and
       | recycling is good?
        
         | ksec wrote:
         | Quoting from another HN member post [1] not long ago
         | 
         | >When I talk to my family and non-tech non-coasts non-city
         | friends about the sort of political polarization I encounter at
         | my high-tech Seattle job, they often think I'm messing with
         | them, that I'm being facetious or exaggerating. Unfortunately,
         | I'm not. It's all so tiresome. The increasing politicization of
         | everything, and tech being at the center of it, made me realize
         | I have no interest anymore in climbing the corporate ladder. I
         | realize that my lack of political fervor is a liability. I wish
         | I cared more about these things, I really do, but I don't.
         | 
         | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044664
        
         | __turbobrew__ wrote:
         | One term I have heard for this phenomenon is a "purity spiral".
        
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