Before Apple’s yearly investors’ meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, the National Center for Public Policy Research is anticipated to present a proposal urging Apple to discontinue all of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. n June 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark 6-3 decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, striking down race-conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities. The Court ruled that such policies, intended to promote diversity, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the decision directly addressed higher education, it has fueled broader debates and legal challenges regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives including in American companies.
Making hiring decisions based on skin color is, by definition, racist. – MacDailyNews, July 14, 2023 Just as making hiring decisions based on sex is, by definition, sexist. Getting the absolute best people should remain Apple’s ultimate goal. Forced diversity carries its own set of problems. Would the group be comprised of the best-qualifed people possible or would it be designed to hit pre-defined quotas? Would some employees, consciously or unconsciously, consider certain employees, or even themselves, to be tokens meant to fill a quota? That would be a suboptimal result for Apple and everyone involved. The best and desired outcome is for the quest for diversity to work in Apple’s favor. Truly looking at qualified people from a larger pool would likely result in delivering different viewpoints and new ways of looking at things and tackling problems than a more homogenized workforce would likely be capable of delivering. Regardless and of course, someday it sure would be nice for everyone to just be able to evaluate a person’s potential, not measuring and tabulating superficial, meaningless things like skin color and gender. How do we ever get to the point where people “will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” when we insist on judging people by the color of their skin? — MacDailyNews, December 31, 2015 See also: We are currently about 1/4th of the way to being sustainable with Substack subscriptions. Please tell your Apple-loving friends about MacDailyNews on Substack and, if you’re currently a free subscriber, please consider $5/mo. or $50/year to keep MacDailyNews going. Just hit the subscribe button. Thank you! You're currently a free subscriber to MacDailyNews. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Apple faces a DEI backlash as shareholders vote
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