Nice dunk, except I'm not accusing someone of heresy/trying to get them fired.
The people trying to get him fired have read his stuff. They quote from it extensively in the open letter: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-h....
Your claim about the mob not reading his stuff applies to you, the person citing hearsay from YouTube comments (!!!). It demonstrably does not apply to the people who got him fired.
This story also reads:
> ‘Misogynistic’ Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation [emphasis mine]
I'm suspicious that ample due process can be afforded to someone when they are gone mere hours after a petition is circulated. It could signify that this person resigned immediately out of guilt, but it could also signify that they were immediately fired, or resigned out of fear.
BTW -- I don't know what I'd do if I were this person's boss. Those quotes don't look very flattering, and some people seem genuinely offended by his book after reading it in full. It just seems to me that not everyone who read his book thought it was, taken on the whole, deeply offensive (e.g. 800 Amazon reviews, 4 stars on average, in addition to my "YouTube hearsay"). And maybe this could be a premature rush to judgment. I'd personally want to spend more than "mere hours" to decide whether or not what this person wrote should merit a literal job termination.
If your point is that some people are more rigorous in their research than others then yes, that is true.
But if your point is "Apple should have taken longer to make the the decision", then no.
Apple has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to protect the company from legal risk. The problem (from Apple's point of view) isn't whether the book taken as a whole has merit, or the subtleties of whether it's fair to fire him.
It's that a new people manager is very prominently and repeatedly on the record as holding views that will absolutely be quoted in successful lawsuits against Apple by the first female or non-white report he handles badly. These quotes will be Exhibit A. Apple will lose. It won't even be close. This is basic stuff for HR and legal.
Reaching this conclusion doesn't require "ample due process". It takes 30 seconds to read any one of the many passages the petition carefully enumerates, and then another 30 seconds to verify the quote is real. Done.
HR's job is to protect the company. They failed by allowing him to be hired. Firing him within hours is the least they could do.
Hours is enough time to download the book and verify he wrote those things.