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Do you have quotes that are sexist? The only quote I have seen in articles that is supposedly sexist is about Bay Area women.

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People are just taking quotes out of context:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...

I'm almost more disgusted with the context. Even the self-sufficient woman he claims to be attracted to isn't described as a person. No thoughts or feelings or personality. Just a physically description and a chance to make it known that he had sex.

The Apple employee letter shared a number of quotes. Now, I'm not going to debate whether they are or they aren't sexist. That seems to be something that people look at through their own prism, and it doesn't seem productive to try to convince one way or the other. What matters is that enough Apple employees felt that those statements were sexist, which is an objective fact that would also be very relevant if there were to be a later lawsuit surrounding this person's at work conduct.

Apple employees objectively claimed to feel that the statements were sexist.

I don’t think we can objectively distinguish someone’s claimed feelings from, say, their getting caught up in the fervor of a movement and attempting to persecute an ideological opponent, or persecuting someone chosen rather arbitrarily.

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