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Re:Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts by wiskinator on Monday January 13, 2025 @12:18AM (#42680296)
Good on them. I truly don’t understand how people can be against furthering diversity in a mostly homogeneous sector of society (corporate tech).
Re:Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts by Cumpiler69 on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:21AM (#42680928)
Because the way most companies increase diversity is by discriminating against straight white candidates from the hiring pipeline which is illegal and opens them to discrimination lawsuits (skin color or with which gender you identify with or rub your genitals in your spare time is irelevant for doing your job during working hours and therefore has no place in being part of the hiring process), and because they only did it for virtue signaling hoping more people will buy their products and apply for jobs there, not because they actually care about diversity.

I don't want the likes of Apple lecturing me on diversity and social justice when they cuck to China's CCP every step of the way on censorship, surveillance and discrimination of minorities just to get access to their juicy consumer market, supply chains and sweatshop labor. They're hypocritical and unaccountable to me.

Companies like that only care about making more money at the expense of everything else, they don't care about your social issues, they only pander and pretend they care hoping it'll make them more money. The moment it affects their bottom line or the winds change, they backtrack on it. Did you ever see their social media accounts switch to pride month rainbow flags in China, Russia, Africa or the Middle East?

Companies tying themselves to social issues only pollutes the social issue.

Re:Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts by HeatrayEnjoyer on Monday January 13, 2025 @01:56AM (#42680791)
It's funny how virtually nobody you go up to to ask what they don't like about DEI has an actually coherent explanation. In my experience if you press for a tangible answer it ends in 90% of cases with them repeating soundbites and then awkwardly trying to change the subject (despite gladly and loudly bringing it up to begin with) and 10% with some openly racist/anti-gay/anti-trans mask off statement.
Re:Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts by ENGNR on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:32AM (#42681655)
It’s bullshit. It means more interviews for people they know they won’t hire to meet a quota which wastes their time, and when someone from a minority is hired the perception might be that they weren’t actually qualified, even if they were.

Plus as a straight white guy - am I really so bad? The world seems pretty fair. I’ve never done anything sexist or racist in the workplace (quite the opposite) and haven’t even seen it happen. Why do I have to have it worse off every step of the way just because I was born this way. End the BS and let’s get some work done.

Re:Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts by jdlshore on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:20AM (#42681959)
I’m a straight white guy, and I see unfairness all around me, primarily rigged in favor of straight white guys like me, and in favor of people who are wealthy.
Re:Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts by ENGNR on Monday January 13, 2025 @07:23AM (#42682694)
You should blow the whistle, because that’s illegal. And leave the rest of us who are nowhere near that to live a regular life without having to enforce sexist/racist policies.
Re:Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts by inemesitaffia on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:36PM (#42703486)
Homogeneous? You know who's overrepresented and nothing will be done there.