What an arsehole move on Apple’s part. What IS the point. There is something going on here much bigger than a Confederate Flag manufactured hysteria. What is it?
It won’t hurt Apple at all. I doubt there are two people here at FR who will change their buying habits just because Apple is rife with plutocrats censoring that which they do not like. Same for Amazon, Ebay and WalMart. There are very, very few people who will divest from those assholes either. Which is exactly why they do this sh&t.
It’s Fahrenheit 451 coming.
Here’s a post I wrote earlier tonight, with quotes from the book - a lot of these dystopian novels will never happen, but this one IS coming.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3304369/posts?page=24#24
“There is something going on here much bigger than a Confederate Flag manufactured hysteria. What is it?”
The way I see it is that it’s been decided that it’s high time for the NWO to make its debut. The only real impediment to this happening is the viability of the US Dollar and America herself.
The dollar is poised to collapse at any time. What we’re seeing now is the wholesale liquidation of the United States - culturally, economically, militarily. When we’re weakened enough, it’ll be one short step to being like any other dictatorial country.
Just a purely political move among the professional racists, to continue the narrative that we are all a bunch of racists, and to energize minority voters.
Fairly simple, they want conformity. The freeper who posted the quotes from Farenheit 451 hit the crux of the issue. The goal is to banish independent thought for the ultimate control of society. The communists did it various ways. The flag banners won't need to ban certain books because half the sheeple will self-censor. Not only that, they will ostracize those who do not self-censor. It already happens. Try being politically incorrect in a corporation some time.
The current method of enforcing conformity is demonization (e.g. of the Confederate flag). Having succeeded they can demonize anything else they want by associating it with the slaughter of innocents as was the case in Charleston. Christians are not far down on their target list even though Christians were slaughtered. Don't be surprised if the next "right wing" wacko is ID'd as fundamentalist.