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Apple Now Accepting Donations to Southern Poverty Law Center Following Charlottesville Protests
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SPLC conflates real extremists with those who they simply don't agree with. And thus lumping ordinary people who hold opposing views to what is fashionable in SPLC's extreme left bias with real extremists.
All this simply to silence legitimate and reasonable dissent.
SPLC is a hate group itself and Apple is doing nothing noble here.
All this simply to silence legitimate and reasonable dissent.
SPLC is a hate group itself and Apple is doing nothing noble here.
That is a Dual Edged sword, stupidity, villainy, sanity are all subjective and in the eyes of the beholder. good luck with that.
Of course they absolutely have the right to freedom of speech. I am not denying that. But I also have the right to peacefully disagree and support who I feel best represents my beliefs. If it's SPLC then I could dontate to them. If it's some other organization then so be it. Apple is only saying that this is who we support and if you would like to do the same you can use the link. If not go about your business and purchase your movie, book, app or whatever it is that you came to do.
Where was Tim Cook when 5 cops were shot dead by BLM?
Supporting the fight against bigotry and racism is a worthy cause. Tim Cook needs to stop donating Apple Co. money to worthy causes. That is not his money, its the stockholders' money. The stockholders need to get their dividend checks and then decide to donate their money.
Im a jew, so nazis does not exactly like me. They would gas and burn me if they could. I hate nazis, but what I hate even more, are leftist morons who play the nazi card is someone is a smudge more right-oriented than them.
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Because Tim Cook is a busybody who knows more about telling other people how to live than about making great products. Because board member Al Gore has made tens of millions from his seat, despite having never worked a private sector job in his life, besides as a reporter for six months. Because VP Lisa Jackson was a key Obama lieutenant, who used fraudulent email aliases as a federal employee to avoid FOIA requests.
SJ's politics were left wing, but at least he had the common decency to keep them to himself and focus his public energies on making the best products possible for everyone on earth, even people he didn't agree with.
Sadly, It appears that all large corporations are getting involved and it's not good. Sure in this instance it might be okay, but there will be a day when the message might be yours.
At first they came for my.......
Assume you think anyone who speaks on Fox news is a representative of Fox news therefore knows nothing on the topic being discussed? And who said anything about Fox news anyway? This is about the scam group SPLC not Fox news.
This is the Tim Cook Apple vs the Steve Jobs Apple. I don't recall Apple taking political stances under Jobs. But hey, I guess it's more important to virtue signal from the ivory tower than it is to just make great products that potentially revolutionize an industry.
Im not very fond of nazism, but, even as a Jew, I still think those *******s have the right to stand up and show the world what kind of morons they are.
I generally like theirs products but prefer not to have an activist tell me me how to think. Abandoning a platform I have used since 1989 would be a big, expensive pain. More and more, the stances of CEOs sound like, "If you do not support us, you are _________." Which I resent. So I'm totally screwed.
Or maybe all the battles have loudly moved out into public view since Jobs died? I don't recall Steve Jobs being alive during GamerGate, the alt-right's test run temper tantrum.
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Imagine the **** Apple would get if they used that today...
That's great, but this article is talking about donating due to a recent protest involving NeoNazis who were even chanting "Jews will not replace us", so I'm not sure why you are disputing the mention of nazism in my original post?
They likely are consistent internally (I loved Jobs' perfectionism and his vision, but he was a modern hippie). The CEO/SJW hybrid model has been evolving for a number of years and TC is on trend. It has become so common, I think Apple/TC feel it is safe to virtue signal whenever they get an opportunity.
I'm sure the Nazis will thank you and give you a platform in return should they gain power.
Imagine the **** Apple would get if they used that today...
Back when this poster was printed, it was one in a series of a lot of great persons. If the posters would be published today, Apple would not get any grief. The series was inclusive and diversive. Something that is lacking in this debate. The mantra is "If you aint left, you are nazi".
Thanks Tim, we know you always do the right thing behind closed doors and out of the spotlight.
Thanks also for contributing to ADL, or Anti-Defamation League, responsible for actually defaming innocent individuals on the 'alt-lite' who don't spread or spew hate, and have nothing to do with white supremacy, with clear intentions to cause violence and harm to them and discredit their journalism by association of putting them on this same list with scumbags like Richard Spencer, titled "From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate":
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate
Mike Cernovich is JEWISH, and his wife is Persian, and he has a Persian CHILD.
What a racist and anti-Semite, amirite?
Jack Posobiec is a Navy vet and his fiancé is an immigrant.
and Milo and Lucian Wintrich, are GAY dudes.
Great job, ADL and Tim.
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Thanks also for contributing to ADL, or Anti-Defamation League, responsible for actually defaming innocent individuals on the 'alt-lite' who don't spread or spew hate, and have nothing to do with white supremacy, with clear intentions to cause violence and harm to them and discredit their journalism by association of putting them on this same list with scumbags like Richard Spencer, titled "From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate":
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate
Mike Cernovich is JEWISH, and his wife is Persian, and he has a Persian CHILD.
What a racist and anti-Semite, amirite?
Jack Posobiec is a Navy vet and his fiancé is an immigrant.
and Milo and Lucian Wintrich, are GAY dudes.
Great job, ADL and Tim.
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No one can approve of the Dixiecrats of whom you speak. Of course, modern day southern Republicans are the new Dixiecrats.
I would add that it was a Democrat who championed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Nixon's bigotry is well documented and he understood the lingering racial issues in the south which lead him to develop his "southern strategy".
Racism is racism. There is no sugar coating people who stand on the wrong side of a moral issue, including so many clergymen.
Oh yeah, no one is erasing history by removing confederate monuments. The history is still there. It's funny when I hear of confederate monuments in states that were either in the North or not even states. Why is there a Jefferson Davis highway in Arizona?
Regardless, Cook is the CEO of Apple and is responsible and held accountable to Apple's Board. He can direct Apple to contribute to any organization he desires. He take any political position he chooses, just as other CEO's do.
Someone said "grandstanding" but I think it was just a message being sent by Cook who is obviously a man of deep convictions.
I think their decision is controversial. Many of the points are valid.
Same
As a conservative Apple supporter...I threw up a little bit in my mouth when I saw this. Why not just give AntiFa and BLM billion dollar donations and then brag about it? This is definitely a chink (I know some PC liberal will get triggered by this word but look it up...) in Apple's armor. All these companies that are anti-(fill in the blank) make me NOT want to buy their stuff anymore. Virtue signaling of the worst kind.....
