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Apple and Tim Cook Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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With a hearty dose of barely hidden racism and homophobia.
We have schools to bring “awareness.” And also about a million streets named after the man.
What does Tim Cook or Apple do to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday? Anyone? I mean, he only started the war to end slavery. Those evil, white patriarchal men....you know, the hundreds of thousands of white men who sacrificed their lives so black people would not be held in bondage.
Many of us are bone-tired of social justice virtue signaling and identity politics, especially when it comes to Apple. Identity politics and social justice permeates much of what this company does.
Tim Cook is like Rosa Parks. He was told he couldn't sit on a plane seat like a normal person. He had to fly on a private jet instead.
Wow these comments are a cesspool of hate-filled immaturity. Hopefully you all can someday find it in your heart to embrace the message of MLK. Tim Cook may or may not be the right person to lead Apple, but MLK would’ve stood by his side to embrace the social and political message he conveys.
The man is a plagerist and a thief and I certainly will not be celebrating REV. King today.
Yes, those are fringe instances and have been decried by liberals overwhelmingly.
Here is one of the biggest "liberals" going. This is what the overwhelming majority of liberals believe from my experience.
If you want to make an argument on the use of a word, don't use a Koch brothers "news" outlet to do so, Spiked, nor a magazine that had Boris Johnson as an editor, to try and say it's "widely" used by "commentators." It's not. "Identitarian" is a far right term used by nazis no matter the "modifier" you put in front of it.
Apple is skin color and “diversity” obsessed. Watch their adverts. MLK: “judge by the content of character and not by skin color.”
MLK would not approve of this diversity madness. Identity politics is toxic; if you (the general “you,” not this poster specifically) buy into it, you’re a simple minded fool.
Lincoln didn’t really end slavery. He supported abolitionists since they were on his side but he didn’t really know how to bring an end to slave labor completely. The Emacipation Proclamation was a bandage solution for states that left the Confederacy but it didn’t become law. The 13th Amendment was enacted after he passed.
I don’t see any iPhone XS on that landing page.
Dr. Marten was a great man with a great sole.
Dr. Martin was a great man with a great soul.
I didn't blame anyone.
I indicated that lumping in BLM with antifa was erroneous at best.
You think just because we had legislation in the 1960's that racism went away?
Do you think that 7 years for the killing of an unarmed black man on film is okay?
Me, victim? Not even close.
But I have been stopped by the police for "walking while black" as a teenager and "driving while black" as an adult.
I suggested the poster understand history and read "A Cross to Bear".
But clearly people here have some pent up hostility and aggression they need to deal with.
Have a reflective and introspective Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Well done Apple. Well done Tim Cook. Most of all, well done Martin Luther King Jr.
Just be clear Lincoln did not have a desire to do anything with slavery.
In his letter to Horace Greely
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."
The Emancipation Proclamation freed only slaves in southern territories that the Union did not control.
The Civil War was not solely about slavery, and quite frankly what happened after the Civil War was far worse.
We had apartheid in America for 100 years.
We had the re-enslavement of black men using vagrancy laws that put them in jail for indeterminate sentences with fines that were impossible to pay. We had southern states than made significant revenue from leasing black prisoners to corporations.
The Civil War didn't end the south's addition to cheap labor. They found a more heinous way to get it.
This practice of enslaveing black men for being unemployed didn't end in the south until at least WWII and after that it still continued.
Think about how the cycle works.
You are refused employment by the same people that pay to lease you for mines and factories.
Pretty demented.
So your question demonstrates your lack of knowledge about American History and the struggle for Civil Rights.
For sure. Many here just use this day as another opportunity to cr@p on Apple and Mr. Cook. Every single year, on this day when Dr. King is honored. Very immature behavior.
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I agree. There’s a lot of very angry people here. A shame they can’t just this once sit on the sidelines and honor Dr. King’s message and life.
I agree with the rest of your post but this isn’t true. Everyone, everywhere wants cheap labor. When Blacks moved North to take jobs they weren’t any more culturally welcome there. But businessmen wanted cheap labor. Throughout this country today businessmen are happy to accept all the cheap legal or illegal workers they can get.
Also, the North was happy to use child labor in their factories. And everyone used child labor on farms.
The point is there was nothing particular to the South in wanting and using cheap labor we today may consider immoral.
Very true.
I have never understood the need to hang out on forum just to spread negativity. I am Apple fan and I don't mind criticism that Apple deserves. Unfortunately, MR in the past few years has become a playground to spread so much hate on anything Apple does, good and bad.
Weird times.
I'm certainly not an expert... But I think it has to do with many unhappy people feeling they have little power or success in their lives. And the opportunity to hate on someone or some entity, that is enjoying some success or doing something positive, provides a short-lived blip of power that's otherwise lacking.
How insecure can you possibly be that you're this triggered by a homepage picture.
Well he's trying but I agree it seems half-assed, almost like an insult.
What I mean is in Tim's tweets I see ONLY caucasians ... I don't see any mix with any other culture ... kinda really defeats any reasoning for portraying any sentiment or the outright reason for today being a tribute in any way. [EDIT: Sorry was looking at his Jan 19TH Post as that was shown in the article]
Yet someone else showed a tweet with a picture of Obama holding the hand of a toddler aged caucasian walking into the White House! Holding hands yet walking Side-by-Side! This ... is profound and clearly not only properly honors Martin Luther King Jr but also for what he stood for and his message to us all ... UNITY.
Makes a world of difference in perception comes meaning.
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Except that's not what he's doing. I get it, you don't like Tim Cook and his equal rights track record. Stay cynical and angry.
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"Good to honor this day.."
It's a real shame you can't leave it at that.
Just another opportunity to slam Apple/Cook. Too bad you can't at least hold back on this one particular day.
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MLK's legacy and great and all that. But growing up as a young (non-black) boy in the late 70s, Alex Haley's Roots did it for me. That was an epic made-for-television show and it made me realize that it's EVIL to treat fellow human beings as slaves or to treat them as lesser human beings.