Posted on 03/30/2015 8:07:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There's something very dangerous happening in states across the country.
A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law.
Others are more transparent in their effort to discriminate. Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas' marriage ban later this year. In total, there are nearly 100 bills designed to enshrine discrimination in state law.
These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear. They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.
America's business community recognized a long time ago that discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business. At Apple, we are in business to empower and enrich our customers' lives. We strive to do business in a way that is just and fair.
That's why, on behalf of Apple, I'm standing up to oppose this new wave of legislation — wherever it emerges. I'm writing in the hopes that many more will join this movement. From North Carolina to Nevada, these bills under consideration truly will hurt jobs, growth and the economic vibrancy of parts of the country where a 21st-century economy was once welcomed with open arms.
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tablets are commodities today thus Samsung and others make ones as good or better than Apple. My sister loves her Samsung note (large screen) with the stylus that she uses all the time. She vastly prefers using the stylus to type rather than fingers
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So glad I do not own an Apple device. Don’t plan to get one.
What you have observed is clear evidence of what Jim Reed described in the 1920's as The Pestilence Of Fanaticism. It is cut from the same cloth as the great totalitarian movements of the Twentieth Century, which led to the violent deaths of over 100,000,000 people. Ugly stuff, to be sure.
But until we find a way to deprogram those in the media & academia, who have been conditioned like so many Pavlovian dogs, to automatically react to any dissent, in precisely the same way, we are going to continue to see gross injustices, such as you describe.
It is indeed, at least partially, about how we treat each other. Unless you are a total fanatic--as Mr. Cook now appears to be;--you understand & respect the fact that other people want the same right that free men & women have always had; and that is right to decide for themselves with whom they will associate; with whom they will elect to do business; with just what they will choose to identify, and just what they will seek to avoid.
Tim Cook has now distanced himself, pretty clearly, from those of us who believe that we should treat others with respect. As he rejects that concept--and he has here very clearly rejected that concept--we reject him. (Frankly, he strikes one as a bully in the Ernst Roehm mold.)
In many particulars, you are right. Yet in a situation, such as this, I would suggest, it is very well to bait the Leftist fanatics into committing themselves. We need to find the formula to re-awake the reasoning process in the public; and the more clearly the Tim Cooks demonstrate their total fanaticism; their total disdain for any opinion other than their own; the better chance that we will have to break people out of the conditioned reflex mentality that the Left has gradually instilled in so many.
If we walk on eggs to avoid the controversy, we will never reverse the now "politically correct" conditioning that is destroying Western Culture.
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