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> Because Tim Cook, as a homosexual, has teared up when speaking about human rights abuses of homosexual under repressive regimes ...but is also more than happ
by objclxt 8y ago
> Because Tim Cook, as a homosexual, has teared up when speaking about human rights abuses of homosexual under repressive regimes
...but is also more than happy to meet and shake hands with the leaders of those repressive regimes? Like the UAE, which criminalizes sodomy and deports those who identify as LGBT?
https://www.thenational.ae/uae/government/abu-dhabi-crown-prince-meets-apple-chief-tim-cook-1.256046 https://www.thenational.ae/uae/government/abu-dhabi-crown-pr...
Is it possible Apple, like Tim Cook, has the occasional double standard?
- onetimemanytime 8y agoShake hands or resign and let another person lead Apple.
- kortilla 8y agoRight, shaking hands is literally an endorsement of everything the country does. This must blow your mind: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnyoobserver.files.wordpress.com%2F2015%2F09%2Fgettyimages-490448490.jpg%3Fquality%3D80&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fobserver.com%2F2015%2F09%2Fputins-russia-supplants-obamas-america-as-middle-east-power-player%2F&tbnid=-F7TWsfxoKZNUM&vet=1&docid=a1l42_AtVH620M&w=3000&h=2000 https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnyoobserv...
- criddell 8y agoThere's another way to look at it - Tim Cook has managed to get these leaders of repressive regimes to shake hands and do business with an openly gay man who is widely admired.
- threeseed 8y agoTim Cook can only change what he has control over. He can't change the government of the UAE. He can change Apple's security and privacy priorities.