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That's bold coming from the company (IBM) that helped the Nazis organize a well structured genocide.
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
"Help" is a inflammatory hyperbole. IBM had good financial relations with Nazi Germany, and its tech was heavily used in many bureaucratic endeavors, just like in many other nations. This included holding a census, organizing many of the fairly recently federalized infrastructure systems such as railway, telephones, etc. Remember, Germany was only merged a couple decades before from a mix of dozens of highly individual states with history going back almost a thousand years. So it was a lot of work to do in short time, and Germany was never before and never since(!) as centralized as it was under Nazi rule.
As far as I am aware, there is no evidence that IBM as a company was even aware of, much less actively and intentionally "helped" the Holocaust. With that logic, everyone that did any business with Germany in the 1930s "helped the Holocaust". I think a more nuanced view is beneficial for all. Don't dilute the blame from those that truly deserve it.
Hitler wasn't exactly quiet about his intentions. IBM collaborated with a man who made Jews wear "scarlet letters" and didn't have any outward objection about it.
Exactly, they did. A corporation not being aware of what was happening, as Jews are leaving the country to save their lives? right...
The same can be said about corporations currently working Israel, the U.S, China, Russia, etc. These corporations are and were a significant part of the problem.
Pre-internet fog of war was on a whole different level; it's not like Anne Frank was positing tiktoks from inside Germany explaining what was happening.
Modern day corporations have no such excuse.
Maybe, though I'd imagine a company like IBM would be seeing it's Jewish employees fleeing the country or attempting to and have some idea of why.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the upper, lower, and middle management at IBM is entirely different now.
You never know, they might have the Grail
They chose... poorly
They don't.
It is coming from IBM because of that very same reason, they can't risk this argument getting too popular once again in 90 years. What happens when their ad shows next to nazis? You are confusing the outcome with the reason.