Antonio Garca Martnez, a former Facebook product manager who joined Apple‘s advertising business in April, has left the company.
The iPhone maker made the change after over 2000 employees signed an internal petition protesting what they saw as sexist and racist views in his 2016 book Chaos Monkeys about working in Silicon Valley.
Martnez defined women in San Francisco’s Bay Area as “weak and feeble, privileged and naive despite their best efforts of worldliness, and usually full of shit.”
“They have their self-righteous privilege feminism and infinitely flaunt their freedom, but the actual fact is, come epidemic plague or foreign occupation, they’d are becoming exactly the sort of useless bags you’d transact for a box of shotgun cartridges or a jerry and the can diesel,” he continued.
In addition to those remarks, he was chastised for comparing a coworker named Chander to a rickshaw driver.
An Apple technician who was fired this week after hundreds of millions of coworkers signed the petition calling for his rejection said on Twitter that he was fired “in a snap decision” and that Apple made defamatory statements about him.
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Apple mentioned in a statement announcing his removal that it aspires to create an inclusionary, welcoming place of work and that “behaviour and attitude that demeans or segregates against people for who they really are will have no place here.”
Garca Martnez stated on Twitter that Apple was well aware of his writing and had interrogated references he supplied to the company about just the discrepancies between his skilled and literary personalities.
“I did not’sever ties’ with Apple. Apple fired me on the spur of the moment “Garca Martnez stated this on Twitter. “Apple has released a statement that strongly indicates I involved in some bad behavior all through my time at the company. That is absolutely untrue and defamatory.”
Apple did not respond to a request for comment on Garca Martnez’s posts right away.
