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Apple Removes Civil War Games From App Store Over Confederate Flag Usage [Updated]

This is fun! It is like living in a movie."Walking Dead", "1984", and "Idiocracy" all rolled into one.

"Schindler's List" will be the theme for the sequel.

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jc1350 said:
*snicker* You have to switch to a PC to get away from the PC. ;)
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Would you get away from it though. It seems like the tech companies are policing themselves. You can still side load apps and things on Apple products. Apple just won't facilitate the transaction. LMAO!
 
mdntcallr said:
Apparently the Govt has been unlawfully going around to retailers and companies trying to pull anything with a confederate flag. this is a joke and unamerican.
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The federal government hasn't been doing anything of the sort. Local state governments have been removing it from the fronts of their buildings, and retailers such as Amazon and Esty have been pulling the flags from their catalogs as a show of support, but there isn't a concentrated censorship movement whatsoever.

Nor do I think there should be one. Remove it from the fronts of state capitals and whatnot, and let that be the extent of it. If people still want to buy one and fly it in their front yard, they're more than welcome to.
 
I'm a black guy and find this absolutely crazy. Are books and movies next? Not saying that we should fly the flag all over the place but we got to use better judgment and not go overboard. This is our history bad or good.
Let's ban the dollar bill because George Washington owned slaves! How far are we going to take this?
 
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maelstromr said:
So as "a lawyer" you recognize the difference between a private, non-governmental entity choosing to not sell something because they don't support its direct or implicit message and "censorship", right?

As a "Jewish New Yorker" do you have the same feelings if the issue were people choosing to stop selling the Nazi swastika flag?

Pretending there is a benign motive behind the embrace of the Dixie Cross is a serious part of the problem. I believe people when they say THEY as individuals only meant it to be "pro-Southern" - but that is simply not sufficient once you understand what the symbol REALLY means in the context that it was appropriated for. It is NOT a tertiary symbol of the Confederate military, it is the banner of racists, segregationists and lynch mobs. Outside of a strictly historic context, which is highly limited based on the facts of history, it has no place and needs to be discouraged as a common symbol of "Southern Pride".
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Exactly. If people were going around with Swastika's to commemorate the history of the Nazi's, the Jewish community would be up in arms. Black people don't matter to them so it's okay to offend them.
 
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darcyf said:
I don't know what the mechanics were behind each game that they removed, but I do think if you can play as the confederates in a game then it's in poor taste, to put it mildly.
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OMG - what the hell are you thinking - I have played civil war games my entire life - I am not nor never have supported slavery or the battle flag. Why don't you gather up everything that you don't like an BURN it - what are we becoming NAZI's????
 
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AdonisSMU said:
Exactly. If people were going around with Swastika's to commemorate the history of the Nazi's, the Jewish community would be up in arms. Black people don't matter to them so it's okay to offend them.
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In the USA you have the right to fly these items - you are stupid and an idiot if you do but you have the right to.
 
cdmoore74 said:
I'm a black guy and find this absolutely crazy. Are books and movies next? Not saying that we should fly the flag all over the place but we got to use better judgment and not go overboard. This is our history bad or good.
Let's ban the dollar bill because George Washington owned slaves! How far are we going to take this?
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There is talk of banning Gone with the Wind now ....
 
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cdmoore74 said:
I'm a black guy and find this absolutely crazy. Are books and movies next? Not saying that we should fly the flag all over the place but we got to use better judgment and not go overboard. This is our history bad or good.
Let's ban the dollar bill because George Washington owned slaves! How far are we going to take this?
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I'm black also and I think the gamification of the largest attack against the US government for the purpose of continuing the human rights abuses against black people should certainly be condemned. You can create war games without needing the backdrop of the Confederacy and Civil War. History lessons are provided via books, classes and museums.
 
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tomwvr said:
In the USA you have the right to fly these items - you are stupid and an idiot if you do but you have the right to.
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You do have a right but no business is obligated to help you buy and purchase that paraphernalia against their will. The free markets are working.
 
The confederate flag represents racism. Anyone who wants to argue about it representing southern heritage or culture needs to get with the times. It sounds like a German trying to justify that the nazi flag represents German culture and heritage.
 
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really apple? let's attempt to re-write history...
no matter what you believe about that flag, you can't just simply remove it from the world, just like the swastika, you give it more power when you are afraid of it.
 
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Well, maybe they should pull anything with the American and California flags as well. These flags represent the atrocities against Native American, Japanese and Chinese peoples in the past, and might also be seen as purposefully highly offensive by some types.

It's the new inquisition of political correctness. Burn all the historians at the stake.
 
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firewood said:
Well, maybe they should pull anything with the American and California flags as well. These flags represent the atrocities against Native American, Japanese and Chinese peoples in the past, and might also be seen as purposefully highly offensive by some types.

It's the new inquisition of political correctness. Burn all the historians at the stake.
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Step 1: Learn History

Step 2: Opine on actual history

Step 3: ...

Step 4: Profit?
 
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guerro said:
Because States Rights are so offensive. This is a clever diversion brought up to divert attention from real, concerning issues.
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It depends on how the states rights are used. The south only wanted states rights so they could continue the practice of slavery. People only came up with states rights well after the fact to try and white wash the history behind the Civil War.
 
I can understand removing confederate flags from government office buildings. I am all for that. But removing them from civil war games? What, was there no confederate flag flown during the civil war? Should we ban all movies that show a confederate flag as well? History shows that the confederates flew the confederate flag. I agree with removing them from all government office buildings. Governments that disagree, I'd like to point out one simple fact - the North won the war.
 
maelstromr said:
I hate PC crap. This is not PC crap. That flag symbol has one meaning NOW. Just like the swastika had an old, even ancient, meaning but only has one real meaning now. My understanding is that this is about the main icon in the store and on the app interface using the flag, not it simply appearing in the game tied to confederate units. A WWII game surely has Nazi flags in the game, but you would NEVER make the main icon for the game the traditional Nazi flag. This is the same thing.

For any of you confused on what the confederate flag is really about:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/22/confederate-flag-racist_n_7639788.html
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The Huffington Post is worse than FOx News
 
Like others have said, it's one thing to fly the flag over state or government buildings, quite another to depict it in media. It amounts to willfully forgetting and white-washing history, and in many cases, that can be just as bad if not worse than what such symbols had stood for.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
 
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AdonisSMU said:
You do have a right but no business is obligated to help you buy and purchase that paraphernalia against their will. The free markets are working.
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This is not free market - it is INSANITY - it is fear of the PC POLICE - why don't we just burn everything that has any ties to the South and then open camps to teach us what is allowed and what is wrong , you don't get it
 
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cgc said:
Everyone's on a witch hunt...while we're at it let's delete "White Men Can't Jump" and "The Great White Hype" as they are racist movies.
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Don't forget "White Man's Burden". Look it up if you haven't seen that one.
 
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