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Tim Cook Reminds Employees 'Apple Is Open' After Australian Retail Store Employee Bars Black Teens
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Recognizing the potential recurrence of previous activity isn't racial profiling or racism, it's intelligent shop keeping. Sometimes reality doesn't fit quite well into the neat little slots of PC definitions.
Sometimes life is a bitch!
Facts like this makes all the difference in the world. If this is true then those kids deserved to get thrown out. If back packs aren't allowed in the store and they seemed to be doing the very MO that seemed to be the plot within the mall, then I agree, they should have been thrown out.
But none of this was mentioned..
It's important to give all of the surrounding information and not ride, "because I said so."
Apple Store Employee Charged With Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Apple Gift Cards https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...nearly-1-million-in-apple-gift-cards.1930738/
Yeah. Tim Cook is supposedly a brilliant supply chain guru, but his incessant political correctness is turning into a large annoyance, for me anyway.
Oh dear Australia. You're really not on message at the moment.
Optus removes Arabic language signs in Sydney after threats against staff - the guardian
https://apple.news/AkRjJ2XXcTfSxXwtKaFzAAw
"No, no! We're really multicultural and tolerant! Honest! You'll see!"
Optus removes Arabic language signs in Sydney after threats against staff - the guardian
https://apple.news/AkRjJ2XXcTfSxXwtKaFzAAw
"No, no! We're really multicultural and tolerant! Honest! You'll see!"
Did you even read that LINK?
But I expect that you find it helpful that the rest of Europe speaks English to you when you go on holiday, why not extend the same help to Arabic speakers?
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So, if I picked you out a group of folks at a peewee ballgame and stated that you looked like a pedophile, would I be out of line?
Do you have evidence that these boys had been caught stealing before? Otherwise what you're talking about is assumptions based on appearance, which in this case probably are racist assumptions.
When its a recurrence of a racist activity, then its racist.
You are apologising for racism. Pure and simple.
One man's racism is another man's diligence. It's all in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?
I read it and it sounded credible to me. YMMV
I'm sure it did sound credible to you. Many people are willing to believe the worst about any dark skinned person without a shred of proof. That's called racism.
Frankly, I'm willing to believe the worst about any person. That's what 69 years of human interaction will do to you. White, black, yellow or green... makes absolutely no difference to me.
Not racism... experience.
Because you read something and it sounded credible, doesn't mean that its not anecdotal.
I never said it was or wasn't anecdotal. I simply said that after reading it it sounded credible to me.
Am I not allowed to think something sounds credible? Do I need to check with you first to tell me whether I might form an opinion or not?
You're still missing the key point. You're suggesting the store manager asked these kids to leave because they were black. You have absolutely no evidence to back up that assertion. There could be any number of reasons why security thought these kids "might steal". It could have been their behaviour whilst in the store gave cause for concern. You've just simply jumped on the 'if anyone does/say anything negative to a black person they must be a racist' bandwagon.
At last someone with some actual facts to clarify this issue. Best post in this forum.