Because they are saying that's not what happened (in their opinion - it certain sounds like that's what happened from the summary)....
They clearly aren't saying "We accept we are racist, but we just don't want to pay" (even if its true or not). They are saying "we don't agree that the issue was caused by race, we would never be racist and are disappointed the ruling said we are ".
IBM's president knew the holocaust was occurring when IBM was building holocaust management systems and printing jew disposition punch cards. He was apparently happy about it.
To see that IBM still has racist management is approximately the least surprising thing ever.
It's much like how policing as we know it in the USA evolved from governmentally empowered slave catching posses, and now people are surprised that there's a lot of white supremacism in police forces. Well, no fucking shit. And by the way, did
That's a strong claim and you've provided zero evidence to support it.
People inside fucking Germany didn't know about the holocaust, it's a bit stupid expecting some bloke in America to be aware.
Not to mention of course that Auschwitz was built two years before the Wannsee Conference; in other words before German policy was mass murder.
Shit, your linked article at the Guardian explicitly mentions "a senior IBM representative from New York travelled to Berlin". So that would have been prior to 11th December
"That's a strong claim and you've provided zero evidence to support it."
Let us know when you learn to internet, noob. Google can give you more citations than you can eat, if you ain't skeered. The support is not at all hard to find if you actually want it.
If you search for it and genuinely can't find it, say so and I will demonstrate how a web search works. But this is not something hard to find. Every major.news outlet knows and has covered it.
You may actually want to read the meticulously researched 'IBM And The Holocaust' by Edwin Black. There were IBM tabulating machines in concentration camps. There is one on display at the Holocaust Museum in NY I believe.
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.... [ibmandtheholocaust.com]
I've read it, twice, and it is a damning indictment of corporate collaboration with IBM as the solution provider for the German war machine, occupations, mass imprisonment and executions. They worked hand in hand in the coding, maintenance and distribution of a census gathering IT infrastructure. Germany would have done this anyway but not as efficiently as they did with IBM's help.
They funneled that money through Swiss banks. It's a secret IBM would rather forget, like Watson's admiration of Hitler...oh and the medal he received from him personally. They knew.
This speaks to the environment at the time especially when you see what folks like Henry Ford were doing, spreading antisemitic propaganda in Ford owned newspapers, and books that were taken up by the racial policy folks in Germany. Ford admired Hitler greatly and was a rabid anti-semite. It's all part of the documentary record and conveniently ignored in the west.
IBM does condone. (Score:4, Insightful)
IBM does not condone retaliation, race discrimination, or any other form of discrimination. The company will consider all of its options on appeal.
If you don't condone racial discrimination, then why are you appealing it? Why are you disappointed in the ruling?
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They clearly aren't saying "We accept we are racist, but we just don't want to pay" (even if its true or not). They are saying "we don't agree that the issue was caused by race, we would never be racist and are disappointed the ruling said we are ".
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Ya, and simply whacking the CEO and other suits pay packages would easily pay for their bias in this case. IBM certainly cannot plead poverty.
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IBM's president knew the holocaust was occurring when IBM was building holocaust management systems and printing jew disposition punch cards. He was apparently happy about it.
To see that IBM still has racist management is approximately the least surprising thing ever.
It's much like how policing as we know it in the USA evolved from governmentally empowered slave catching posses, and now people are surprised that there's a lot of white supremacism in police forces. Well, no fucking shit. And by the way, did
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IBM's president knew the holocaust was occurring
That's a strong claim and you've provided zero evidence to support it.
People inside fucking Germany didn't know about the holocaust, it's a bit stupid expecting some bloke in America to be aware.
Not to mention of course that Auschwitz was built two years before the Wannsee Conference; in other words before German policy was mass murder.
Shit, your linked article at the Guardian explicitly mentions "a senior IBM representative from New York travelled to Berlin". So that would have been prior to 11th December
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"That's a strong claim and you've provided zero evidence to support it."
Let us know when you learn to internet, noob. Google can give you more citations than you can eat, if you ain't skeered. The support is not at all hard to find if you actually want it.
If you search for it and genuinely can't find it, say so and I will demonstrate how a web search works. But this is not something hard to find. Every major.news outlet knows and has covered it.
Re:IBM does condone. (Score:3, Informative)