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Read Apple CEO Tim Cook's Email to Employees About Charlottesville
- wyck 9y agoAlternative title: Tim Cook apparently doesn't understand current politics, thus proving why a business's which sells products should not get involved in political press releases.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoSince when did saying that we should stop violent racists become a political thing?
- Simon_says 9y agoNobody is arguing that being anti-crime is a political stance. But Cook's letter goes way beyond that.
- RandVal30142 9y ago>way beyond that By quoting Luther King? I'm having a hard time seeing what you find wrong here.
- Simon_says 9y agoThere's a bunch of stuff to choose from, but I'll just pick one at random. He said: "we are all equal". Though we all should be treated equally under the law, and we all deserve equal protections for certain things, as a point of fact, we are not all equal.
- RandVal30142 9y agoOh gosh golly I can see why you got riled up over such a massive issue like that line. Tell me more.
- Simon_says 9y agoJust reread Cook's speech with an eye towards what statements there is not a 99+% consensus on. Those are the political statements. I'm an Apple developer, shareholder, and end-user, and I don't want Cook making political statements.
- Sangermaine 9y ago>Just reread Cook's speech with an eye towards what statements there is not a 99+% consensus on. The statement you quoted is one such statement. It's hard to tell if you're being sincere, because what you pointed to as an example of a political statement is utterly baffling.
- Simon_says 9y agoIf you think 99% of people agree with that, you're living in a bubble.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoThat's exactly what it fucking means. "We are all equal" obviously, clearly means "we are all entitled to equal treatment", not "there are literally no differences between any two people."
- Simon_says 9y agoMotte and Bailey argument. If that's what Cook meant he could have written that. He wanted to have it both ways.
- willstrafach 9y agoI agree with your interpretation and don't actually understand how this bit is even a sensible thing to nitpick.
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt always has been, if at times a relatively uncontroversial political position. The political of the day are such that it is somewhat more controversial than at some other times.
- Sangermaine 9y agoNovember 9, 2016
- indemnity 9y agoThe amount of business Apple would lose over this is minuscule.
- Sangermaine 9y ago>Alternative title: Tim Cook apparently doesn't understand current politics Can you explain how? Denouncing bigotry is, after this weekend, 100% in line with current politics.
- schwarrrtz 9y agoCan anyone at Apple comment on the perception of Cook inside the company? He seems like a fairly inspiring leader to me, considering his position on LGBT issues, the FBI decryption incident, and now this. I don't work for him, though, and I'd be interested to hear from someone who does.
- gressquel 9y agoI had little respect for Cook when he joined Trump, I lost it all after the China Appstore incidence. Anything that comes from him regarding moral and ethics I ignore
- legostormtroopr 9y agoI'm so glad a billionaire is sticking up for human rights activists who mace old men and women, beat people with bike locks, vandalise businesses and destroy migrant businesses. There is absolutely no defense for Nazis in society, and fortunately noone does defend their ideals. But antifa are equally indefensible but there are scores in the media who defend them - the Berkely riots and the Inauguration riots were hardly condemned by any on the left.
- drewrv 9y agoAntifa will be equally indefensible after they gas 8 million people.
- yahna 9y agoIt's an excuse to get over the rights guilt about the ideas they helped foster. If they convince themselves the left is as bad then they can't really be that wrong.
- observation 9y agoAntifa's name and flag come from 1930s Germany, a group called Antifaschistische Aktion, a communist paramilitary organization patterned on the Bolsheviks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion So they are affiliated with groups that killed millions, just as neo-nazis are ideologically related to the original version.
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoCan't we just agree that both sides share a lame-ass hateful ideology? They are both acting terrible. Antifa beats up old people, destroys property for no goddamn reason, and hurt people with bats and bike locks. The Neo-nazis say racist shit that is largely false and they antagonize a lot of people. They both sound idiotic and act like a group of fools, can't we just say they both suck and move on to actual policy questions....
- exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago