A group of U.S. state attorneys general on Thursday warned Apple and the rest of the top 100 largest American companies that certain workforce “diversity” policies could be illegal in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision effectively striking down affirmative action in higher education.
The 13 officials in letters sent to the 100 largest U.S. companies said the court last month made clear that any policy that treats people differently because of their race is illegal, even when it is adopted with good intentions.
The attorneys general urged the companies to abandon race-based quotas or preferences in hiring, promotion and contracting and threatened legal action “sooner rather than later” if they do not.
“Companies that engage in racial discrimination should and will face serious legal consequences,” the attorneys general wrote.
The officials singled out about a dozen companies that they said have used racial quotas and other explicitly race-based practices, including Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft Corp, and Uber Technologies Corp.
The Supreme Court ruling last month said Harvard University’s and the University of North Carolina’s race-conscious admissions policies violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.
The decision does not directly affect employers, but in a concurring opinion Justice Neil Gorsuch noted that the federal law banning race bias in federally-funded programs, including higher education, is “essentially identical” to the law prohibiting workplace discrimination.
The decision is widely expected to spur legal challenges to admissions policies at universities and high schools and to corporate diversity initiatives that take race into account.
Federal and state laws already bar companies from explicitly considering race in making employment decisions, but there is little recent precedent on the legality of diversity programs.
MacDailyNews Take: Making hiring decisions based on skin color is, by definition, racist.
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
Read the full letter form the U.S. states attorneys general to Fortune 100 CEOs here.
See also: Apple on the losing side as Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions – June 29, 2023
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Thank You Justice Thomas!
Tim Cook, who always sees skin color first (just look at Apple’s ludicrous U.S. marketing photos in which minorities who make up less than 15% of the U.S. population appear in 95% of the images), foolishly and repeatedly taints Apple’s brand with his twisted racism and obsequious wokeism.
It must hurt that no one accepts your hate and ignorance.
You are aptly named.
So what are you disputing here? Are Apple’s U.S. marketing materials not wildly unbalanced as per race representation vs. the actual U.S. population makeup?
Also, it would be interesting, from a psychological standpoint, aside from your obvious consensus bias, to know what exactly in my original comment you think is “hate and ignorance” and why?
Hey wack job, what part of this do you NOT understand?
“U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.”
Hmmm? Crickets, no surprise there.
Thank you Supreme Court for a groundbreaking decision that FINALLY, authorizes a color blind society for everyone!!!
Now, we shall see and will be able to identify who the TRUE racists are…
Tell me about equal protection under the law when less votes beat more votes yet again.
Wacko
It must hurt that no one accepts you as having any intelligence at all.
Wacko all right! 🤡
“What is your race” should be stricken from all applications.
And all interviews should be devoid if all visual cues or blindfolded!
And, the first place to start should be the Federal government. When I was drafted in 1969, I refused to check the race box. Yet, someone else did it for me and could not get it undone.
MYoung, thank you for serving. I was on the verge of being drafted in 1966 and enlisted. Wound up in RVN getting shot at in Hueys for a year.
Leftists have always been racist slave owning garbage. Racist, ignorant, yet arrogant about it. Nothing has changed.
When policies implement “fairness” under the guise of equity, someone is ALWAYS treated less fairly. There is no exception, though the implementers feel themselves worthy to bring the cost upon an innocent. There’s no worthy and rational explanation…when speaking to the one being treated less fairly. Leftism is a bizarre club.
It really is terrible how straight white men are getting discriminated against and can’t get employment. Apple should not be allowed to hire people of colour, women or people who identify as LGBT ahead of white straight men, no matter if it is with good intentions or has good outcomes.
Did you really just say that straight white men should always 100% of the time be hired ahead of women and minorities? Dude it’s 2023 not Mississippi in 1964.
You obviously can’t tell when someone is being sarcastic.
This is a slippery slope, Apple is going to be taken to court every time they hire of any person who is a minority race, a woman or someone who identify as LGBT.
This kind of stupidity is why there are two completely unqualified judges on the Supreme Court. All thanks to libturd stupidity.
Kamala Harris. No better example of the failure of affirmative action.
“Making hiring decisions based on skin color is, by definition, racist.” -MDN
Indeed it is, but it’s okay when fighting racism. It’s called a reparation.
What do they deserve reparations for? They were never slaves and I was never a slave owner.
The only reparations I’ve heard of that make an inkling of sense are the ones where, for example, a black community that was actually and truthfully held back from public funding, policing etc. which led to the community becoming destitute. In these cases they talk about funding said communities to enrich their neighbourhoods, build libraries and parks etc. Not the kind where black people get a cheque in the mail because of what their ancestors went through.
Sure…I too want reparations for something that happened 1000 years ago when the Muslims invaded Europe!!!
“Racism” is a tool used to bully some people and continue the slavery of others.
A tool used by the establishment to keep people at odds with each other.
DEI is racist, it fundamentally states that blacks etc. cannot achieve on merit, that they need “help” to achieve and be successful. It’s so disgusting and insulting except to white woke leftists who are too stupid to see the hypocrisy.