Businesses have the right to remove or sell flags whatever they want. I am glad Apple is removing the flag, just like Walmart, Sears, Target, eBay, Etsy, and so on.
What you gonna do? Force them to stock the flag again?
So another atrocity has us talking about race again. And rightly so. Nothing about America makes sense without understanding the long shadow cast by the original sin of slavery.
And yes, it’s an integral part of the left-right divide. Look at “Why Doesn’t the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?” by Alberto Alesina — yes, that Alesina — Ed Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote. The authors are hardly big lefties; nonetheless, they were driven to the conclusion that it’s mainly about you-know-what:
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Racial discord plays a critical role in determining beliefs about the poor. Since racial minorities are highly overrepresented among the poorest Americans, any income-based redistribution measures will redistribute disproportionately to these minorities. Opponents of redistribution in the United States have regularly used race-based rhetoric to resist left-wing policies. Across countries, racial fragmentation is a powerful predictor of redistribution. Within the United States, race is the single most important predictor of support for welfare. America’s troubled race relations are clearly a major reason for the absence of an American welfare state.
To see what they’re talking about, and why their point remains so relevant, look at two maps. First, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act:
I have edited this reply multiple times trying to express my dismay about Apple joining a censorship movement. My thoughts covered a wide spectrum of emotion. I knew other companies were doing it and it did not bother me. I saw censorship, but I ignored it and them. They do not matter to me. Apple matters to me.
I decided to go to an extreme case as an example of a censorship nightmare Apple itself has opened.
There sure are a lot of people who come out of the woodwork to defend the Confederacy.
As a Southerner, I can say with confidence that the Confederacy was a 'country' of traitors and the Dixie flag meant little to us in the South until it became apparent that African-Americans were going to be recognized as people with equal rights in the 50s and 60s.
It could have stayed one of many flags of history, but racists ruined that for us fans of history.
If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to support Apple and it's products. Google has done the same things as have Amazon and others. You claim its PC going too far then you need to build your own platform and feature the confederate content you want on it. The Confederate X flag in particular was the largest attack on the United States ever and still stands as a symbol of racism. Of course it should be taken down. I'm sure none of you complaining would gripe about an app featuring the Isis flag being taken down from the app store and they haven't committed even a fraction of the violence against the US that the Confederacy did.
In the case of the states, it's up to their people whether or not they want to remove all evidence of the Confederate battle flag. In the case of Apple, it looks like collapsing under the weight of political correctness even faster than them succumbing to Taylor Swift's demands. The optics are that Apple is a company that no longer has a spine, whether that is fair or not.
There sure are a lot of people who come out of the woodwork to defend the Confederacy.
As a Southerner, I can say with confidence that the Confederacy was a 'country' of traitors and the Dixie flag meant little to us in the South until it became apparent that African-Americans were going to be recognized as people with equal rights in the 50s and 60s.
It could have stayed one of many flags of history, but racists ruined that for us fans of history.
Growing up, the only experience I had with that flag was the one I saw on the General Lee car in the Dukes of Hazzard on TV, so I'm not that invested in it as a symbol. However, trying to whitewash history certainly isn't beneficial.
It appears Apple are being lazy and/or ridiculous. We should call for a worldwide ban on the Apple logo because it depicts an injured Apple and is grossly offensive to all Fruitkind.
(That ban would be no less silly than their blanket denial of historical Flag fact)
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Maybe we can get Taylor Swift to one another letter to Apple explaining how stupid this is.
She's a Yankee so that would probably be: "No".
...who they love.
There is no love in the symbol of the Confederate flag, only hate.
Yeah, kinda like others are forced to bake cakes.
ACA is in itself another butt hurt on this nation.
But thats for another thread elsewhere.
Celebrating treason and stupidity is not equal to teaching history.
It's weird we kept a symbol commemorating a pro-slavery secessionist army ( Jon Stewart )
The Issue That Won’t Go Away by Paul Krugman:
So another atrocity has us talking about race again. And rightly so. Nothing about America makes sense without understanding the long shadow cast by the original sin of slavery.
And yes, it’s an integral part of the left-right divide. Look at “Why Doesn’t the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?” by Alberto Alesina — yes, that Alesina — Ed Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote. The authors are hardly big lefties; nonetheless, they were driven to the conclusion that it’s mainly about you-know-what:
To see what they’re talking about, and why their point remains so relevant, look at two maps. First, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act:
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Oooooo I got it, the Let's Go Bowling movies.
Yankee as in a NYer or as in an American?
Edit: she was born in Pennsylvania. I kinda assumed she was from a southern state. So yes she's a Yankee
There sure are a lot of people who come out of the woodwork to defend the Confederacy.
As a Southerner, I can say with confidence that the Confederacy was a 'country' of traitors and the Dixie flag meant little to us in the South until it became apparent that African-Americans were going to be recognized as people with equal rights in the 50s and 60s.
It could have stayed one of many flags of history, but racists ruined that for us fans of history.
If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to support Apple and it's products. Google has done the same things as have Amazon and others. You claim its PC going too far then you need to build your own platform and feature the confederate content you want on it. The Confederate X flag in particular was the largest attack on the United States ever and still stands as a symbol of racism. Of course it should be taken down. I'm sure none of you complaining would gripe about an app featuring the Isis flag being taken down from the app store and they haven't committed even a fraction of the violence against the US that the Confederacy did.
In the case of the states, it's up to their people whether or not they want to remove all evidence of the Confederate battle flag. In the case of Apple, it looks like collapsing under the weight of political correctness even faster than them succumbing to Taylor Swift's demands. The optics are that Apple is a company that no longer has a spine, whether that is fair or not.
There sure are a lot of people who come out of the woodwork to defend the Confederacy.
As a Southerner, I can say with confidence that the Confederacy was a 'country' of traitors and the Dixie flag meant little to us in the South until it became apparent that African-Americans were going to be recognized as people with equal rights in the 50s and 60s.
It could have stayed one of many flags of history, but racists ruined that for us fans of history.
Growing up, the only experience I had with that flag was the one I saw on the General Lee car in the Dukes of Hazzard on TV, so I'm not that invested in it as a symbol. However, trying to whitewash history certainly isn't beneficial.
(That ban would be no less silly than their blanket denial of historical Flag fact)
If she was, she may have written a letter about the confederate flag. Haha
Edit: I thought this was the Swift thread. Whoops.
Next comes the ban on showing the flag in history books.
Some states already ban biology so I expect you're right.