Arvind Krishna, the chairman and CEO of IBM, is under fire after he appeared to admit that he coerced employees into discriminating when hiring, even threatening their bonuses.
A leaked video released by O'Keefe Media Group on Monday showed Krishna speaking at an internal meeting that also included Paul Cormier, the president of Red Hat, an IBM subsidiary, and director of corporate communications Allison Showalter.
“You have to both advance by a percentage that puts a premium on your premium,” Krishna said, speaking of hiring Hispanics, “and by the way, if you lose, you lose some of your bonus.”
“After pulling X ads for 'racism,' IBM boss Arvind Krishna says he will fire, demote or eliminate bonuses for executives who don't hire enough blacks, Hispanics, or hire too many Asians,” noted the journalist James O'Keefe. X.
LEAKED VIDEO: IBM CEO @ArvindKrishna admits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process.
“You have to advance both by a percentage that brings an edge to your bonus,” Krishna said of hiring… pic.twitter.com/UUK26HX8IP
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 12, 2023
While it's unclear when the meeting took place, the leaked video showed Krishna addressing the hiring of black job applicants.
“Asians are not an underrepresented minority in tech in the U.S. … I'm not going to sugarcoat this, for blacks we should try to get to 13 percent,” he said.
O'Keefe noted that Cormier said in the video “that Red Hat has fired people because they were unwilling to engage in racial discrimination through hiring and promotion.”
“Title VII of the Civil Rights Act makes it illegal for employers to discriminate based on race in the workplace,” O'Keefe added.
The posted video caught the attention of X owner Elon Musk, who responded after more explanatory posts from O'Keefe: “Extremely concerning and obviously illegal.”
Extremely worrying and obviously illegal
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2023
“This all comes after IBM pulled advertising on the @elonmusk X platform just a few weeks ago,” O'Keefe noted, citing a statement from the company about its decision to pull ads, saying: “IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X.”
Babylon Bee owner Seth Dillon also called out the company's hypocrisy.
“IBM pulled their ads from X because they have 'zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination'. And yet their internal practice is to penalize people who don't discriminate enough,” he wrote, prompting another response from Musk who wrote: “How ironic.”
How ironic
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2023
IBM was among a group of companies that split their advertising on X after a so-called analysis by the leftist Media Matters claimed that ads were placed next to anti-Semitic material on X. Musk personally was criticized for what some considered anti-Semitic comments on the platform. .
Musk did not mince words to respond to the publicity blackmail.
Musk slams companies pulling ads from Platform X as form of blackmail: 'Go do it yourself' https://t.co/TiJX410zLa road @BIZPACRevision
— Based on BPR (@DumpstrFireNews) November 30, 2023
The leaked video posted by O'Keefe also generated a lot of responses to X.
Very IBM project
– Ralynn (@Ralynn97966097) December 12, 2023
This happens in every major corporation in the country. They literally get paid to discriminate against white people.
— AG (@Yolo304741) December 12, 2023
These are the people who claim to have “high morals”???
WELL
— Final Cut MI (@FinalCutTile) December 12, 2023
These people are blatantly and openly discriminating against whites and Asians! Isn't this kind of behavior criminal? Looks like IBM needs to get the Bud Light/Target treatment!
— Dan Dorsey (@dorsey_danno) December 12, 2023
If you thought this was an isolated incident with one company, you'd probably be wrong.
— Jimmy McCambridge (@JimmyMack0320) December 12, 2023
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