"We, current and previous employees of Apple Inc., wish to express our disappointment and shock at the lack of care and understanding this company has given the Palestinian community, not only abroad suffering in Gaza, but also towards our own team members and anyone who supports them within our stores and offices. "
Potentially unpopular opinion: the mistake was making a comment on Israel in the first place. Apple makes computers and phones. They don’t need to comment on every world crisis.
I worked in their stores for a while. They have had a rule for at least a decade that no personal branding or clothing can stick out beyond the work shirt. Any pins or displays of solidarity for any group would have already been breaking the long established dress code.
The situation in Palestine is horrible, but Apple isn’t going to be able to do anything about it.
Per the Wired article, the Palestinian employee who was fired, Madly Espinoza, asked for and received permission to wear her keffiyeh, which was rescinded a few weeks later. She followed the new instructions and asked for and received approval to wear pro-Palestinian jewelry. She was then fired. Her termination documents did not state a reason.
It’s a consequence of the terminally-online brain rot idea that if you do not explicitly state that you are against a bad thing, you must be actually a huge supporter of it. Or that if you do explicitly state that you are against a bad thing, the fact that you didn’t mention a different bad thing means you are a huge supporter of it. Ad nauseam.
consequence of the terminally-online brain rot
Disagree. Its a consequence of corporations loudly proclaiming their support for groups when it cost nothing (think Black History Month here in the US). Corporations like to use a lot of empty marketing talk about societal issues when they can get away with it and ppl have decided to fight that by pushing companies to actually takes stands. Also, corporations here in the US have much larger voices than individual (and again this is because of the corporations’ own actions), so some ppl see it as a way they can actually have an influence on their govt.
The situation in Palestine is horrible, but Apple isn’t going to be able to do anything about it.
+1, private companies that are not involved directly with a conflict have nothing to do with it. The thing the OP posted is complete bullshit. Besides this “issue” is a very polarized political bs stunt and both sides are essentially worse the other and no saints whatsoever.
“both sides” is BS
Okay, if you think so. lol
Glad you agree
What, you think there’s a side that’s actually good? Lol
No. And I didn’t say that, either
Respect.
I just want to point out that the fruit in this image is almost certainly a strawberry guava and not an apple.
It’s a watermelon. It’s used as a symbol for Palestine due to it’s alignment with the colours of the flag
Oh duh I see it there now. And good symbolism.
