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Apple Celebrates Black History Month With Limited-Edition Watch, Featured Apps and Books, and More
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I agree with your sentiment, but you really think some people are so snowflaky that they will melt with positive acknowledgment of a marginalized group. Oh, point taken
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I cringed reading your post. I'm not even sure I want to ask why you even feel that way? Do you feel the same way with pride bands? Product Red? I personally applaud Apple for these type of products and hope they continue to make more.
Identity Politics is never a good thing. It is regressive in effect.
That's what's brilliant about the claim. If you ask where, obviously you are part of the problem. 🤡
Agreed. Segregated watches FTW!
I love it and will buy a watch band.
I believe the greatest thing to come from these initiatives is already happening; conversations about race.
To get closer to human unity, we have to talk to each other and what Apple is doing is sparking conversations about race.
I believe the greatest thing to come from these initiatives is already happening; conversations about race.
To get closer to human unity, we have to talk to each other and what Apple is doing is sparking conversations about race.
So some of the proceeds go towards... Or is this just a money making ploy?
It’s cool how corporations can package anything up for sale under any event/celebration/disaster
It’s just a band with colors. Wear what you like. Thankfully there are many, many cheaper options available on Amazon and other places. I’m not going to get worked up over the theme. However, I do wish Apple would spend more time designing classic styling of watch faces. I prefer watch faces that emphasize clarity, good use of negative space, and a couple of useful complications. Time to open up the watch face design to third parties, Apple. Then you can move all your designs to the App Store and let users pick what they want from there while starting with A simple initial watch face.
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I get that view point. However, if they are donating proceeds to support the items you listed, then its a step in the right direction.
Who even asked for this? I sure didn’t.
Enough!
Enough!
I really like that band. Way to go Apple.
I'd be interested in buying it, but I was already waiting to get another stainless steel model. Super cool though!
Where? The US for one. Higher rates of incarceration, selective prosecution, unequal access to housing, education, jobs, voting. Yah, marginalized. Supporting a group of people is never a bad thing, well not Nazis, what supremecists, insurrectionists, ... you get the point
Hopefully the proceeds go to all the wonderfully legitimate non-political "movements" out there.
/sarcasm.
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Chinese are Asian, but not all Asian are Chinese.
But beyond that, I was also mocking the concept of leaving “Asians” out of it, as if “Asian” is a valid thing at all, as well as the concept of “Pan African Unity” when the mere idea of it is like saying “I can’t tell Asians apart.”
Africa is a pretty diverse continent, with multiple races and cultures. While a company that doesn’t have too many actual African employees might see this promotion as woke, well, it is not. It is PANDERING. And pandering to black Americans of a particular militancy level at the expense of unity while claiming to promote it.
Sort of like Nancy Pelosi and friends kneeling and wearing woke African garb that they didn’t really understand.
There has not been one black friend, colleague or teacher I have had in my life who has ever worn “African” garb or unity symbols in public. It is not so much a cultural thing as much as a subcultural thing. Which only goes to reinforce the truth that black people are not homogeneous and shouldn’t be treated as such, just as “Asian-American” isn’t a real thing as Asia is so diverse, and “white” isn’t a culture either.
And what is untenable as a non-black person is the modern expectation that I should both NOT see differences AND be aware of all differences. I am racist if I can’t tell a Jamaican accent from a Bahamian one, for example, yet I am also supposed to say our current Vice President is “African American” even though her parents are Indian and “East Indian” and she is more “Asian-American” than anything, and more Canadian than American.
This is why identity politics in America is destroying itself. Fatigue sets in, and in the end, things don’t change the way they are supposed to.
If Apple is going to release special edition products to celebrate marginalized groups of individuals, should I expect a watch for The People incoming?
That’s alright. With Deb Haaland as the new secretary of the interior we look forward to getting our land back instead. That’s much better than 400 dollars worth of engraved platitudes.
That’s alright. With Deb Haaland as the new secretary of the interior we look forward to getting our land back instead. That’s much better than 400 dollars worth of engraved platitudes.
As a White Cis-gendered male, am I allowed to purchase this band as reparations or is it appropriating a culture that I cannot identify with?
Don't worry there will be a band for you in a few decades once you are in the minority!
Shouldn't be a problem for anyone; unless you're afraid of being treated the way you currently are treating minorities.