Racism and IBM
Last week: Red Hat lays off all engineers who are Chinese (like at IBM in 2024)
Earlier today: Red Hat: We Kill People, But Please Obey the CoC or We'll Banish You
Racism and IBM is a difficult subject, especially when one goes back to the 1930s. IBM's still-revered "founding father" was a big fan of Hitler. He also helped Hitler with the "Final Solution".
In more recent days IBMers spoke about how IBM might soon come to an end (after a very long run) and one person has just added: "Well, its “uncanny ability” is called lying. And so long as the top management continues to cook the books, investors will continue to fall for the scam. While they pocket millions."
IBM's hiring tactics and banning of particular nationalities/ethnicities is starting to cost IBM as someone has just pointed out:
It links to justice.gov and that's a new page, dated Friday:
There's also a whole new thread discussing it:
For sure some people who might themselves be racist speak of "anti-white racism" and we don't want to veer in such a direction.
The simple reality is, at IBM and Red Hat people who are hard-working and proficient are now being fired based on their ethnicity and nationality (or either). This is problematic on many levels.
Is the "I" in IBM "international"? █