Apple and Tim Cook Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Laughable. If you really believe that you would not build your product on back of slave labours (often time political prisoners) underaged workers and third world country wages.

oh please... bring me a product you use that is not built in the same place as apple's stuff?
Talk is cheap man. If you're going to say stuff like that you'd better be beyond reproach in your personal choices.

Laughable. If you really believe that you would not build your product on back of slave labours (often time political prisoners) underaged workers and third world country wages.

oh please... bring me a product you use that is not built in the same place as apple's stuff?
Talk is cheap man. If you're going to say stuff like that you'd better be beyond reproach in your personal choices.

While it’s true that nearly everyone is complicit with buying stuff from China, Cook’s hypocrisy is so deep it’s worth pointing it out.

He quite literally took orders from a blood soaked tyranny to take down an app that pro democracy protestors were using. It’s no different from cooperating with Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Cook is no friend of the oppressed.

The world needs more people like Martin Luther King, Jnr.

It’s bleakly funny of course that on economic grounds Tim Cook would be about the strongest opponent one would ever find of King’s policies. King would denounce Cook for things like tax “efficient” approaches and corporate pay levels in the strongest terms possible.

The whole thing is just tedious. After Cook’s cooperation with China’s tyrannical crackdown on pro democracy protestors and also Cook being called out for virtue signalling on Twitter about the environment while taking private jets (and ludicrously having lawyers insert private jet flights into his contract of employment as a way to try to deflect criticism when people far more famous and important routinely fly commercial) I thought Cook might avoid politics but he just can’t help himself.

Why can’t MR posters stop their immorality signaling? All the good works Cook and Apple do just drive you guys crazy lol.

If Apple is to pull out of China, that’s a board level decision, not the CEO’s. The board also requires the private flights, for security and efficiency as well. If you have information to the contrary, I’d love to hear it.

Let’s face it: there are plenty of people in this country who despise everything Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, and accomplished. The constant immorality signaling by those that don’t agree with civil rights, every citizen’s right to vote and all being created equal is truly tiresome ?

Thanks Tim Apple, for honoring a great man!

Why can’t MR posters stop their immorality signaling? All the good works Cook and Apple do just drive you guys crazy lol.

If Apple is to pull out of China, that’s a board level decision, not the CEO’s. The board also requires the private flights, for security and efficiency as well. If you have information to the contrary, I’d love to hear it.

Let’s face it: there are plenty of people in this country who despise everything Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, and accomplished. The constant immorality signaling by those that don’t agree with civil rights, every citizen’s right to vote and all being created equal is truly tiresome ?

Thanks Tim Apple, for honoring a great man!

Hard to know quite what to make of your word salad.

Indeed King was and remains controversial outside the elite. Nonetheless it’s a fact that King would have regarded Cook as an enemy on economic grounds. And Cook would have considered King his opponent were King alive today. So Cook’s tweet is empty hypocrisy. Sorry if someone pointing out that a millionaire CEO is a hypocrite upset you.

Cook does not need to fly private. All evidence shows commercial flight to be just as safe. Princess Diana flew commercial. Do you think Cook is more famous than her? Anyone who knows anything about aviation knows Cook could fly commercial but he wants luxury. The board give him the fig leaf of saying he has to - but there is no justification and they would remove that tomorrow if he wished. He shouldn’t virtue signal about the environment while flying private.

Everything else you wrote was irrelevant.

I can't stand that guy's blatant hypocrisy. Preaching dignity, freedom and equality but then he profits from workers in China who only get two days off a month and work 12-hour days. :lol:

It’s bleakly funny of course that on economic grounds Tim Cook would be about the strongest opponent one would ever find of King’s policies. King would denounce Cook for things like tax “efficient” approaches and corporate pay levels in the strongest terms possible.

The whole thing is just tedious. After Cook’s cooperation with China’s tyrannical crackdown on pro democracy protestors and also Cook being called out for virtue signalling on Twitter about the environment while taking private jets (and ludicrously having lawyers insert private jet flights into his contract of employment as a way to try to deflect criticism when people far more famous and important routinely fly commercial) I thought Cook might avoid politics but he just can’t help himself.
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so do you take responsibility for enabling that behavior by purchasing the products?

I was a kid in the 80s and we never stopped hearing about apartheid and how good people would boycott South African goods.

Well the Chinese communist party has murdered far, far more political opponents that the South Africans ever did. And today the Chinese are ethnically cleansing people with concentration camps.

You are right that almost everyone is guilty of buying stuff made in China of course. But equally it is valid to point out the hypocrisy when someone like Cook virtue signals when he personally has become filthy rich on the back of Chinese workers and a tyrannical regime.

It still amazes me that a post about MLK can turn into political WWIII.

Is Tim Cook perfect? No. Everyone knows that.
Is MLK perfect? No. Everyone knows that.

Can Cook celebrate MLK’s good accomplishments without people saying he is a hypocrite for celebrating someone else’s accomplishments? Probably not.
From the posts of this thread it would seem one has to be a saint of purity to say anything positive about someone else.

Hard to know quite what to make of your word salad.

Indeed King was and remains controversial outside the elite. Nonetheless it’s a fact that King would have regarded Cook as an enemy on economic grounds. And Cook would have considered King his opponent were King alive today. So Cook’s tweet is empty hypocrisy. Sorry if someone pointing out that a millionaire CEO is a hypocrite upset you.

Cook does not need to fly private. All evidence shows commercial flight to be just as safe. Princess Diana flew commercial. Do you think Cook is more famous than her? Anyone who knows anything about aviation knows Cook could fly commercial but he wants luxury. The board give him the fig leaf of saying he has to - but there is no justification and they would remove that tomorrow if he wished. He shouldn’t virtue signal about the environment while flying private.

Everything else you wrote was irrelevant.

Word salad lol. What are you having trouble understanding? Let me know and I’ll help you out.

King does not remain controversial “outside the elite”. He is revered by all segments of society, though quite unpopular with racists and white supremacists/white nationalists/the “alt right” or whatever they prefer we call them at present.

The safety of commercial flights is not the issue, and it has nothing to do with “being famous”. The ability of Cook’s security team to guarantee his safety prior to TSA checkpoints, however, is quite an issue. It’s very difficult to do in a public space. Security 101. It has to do with the number of death threats Cook gets. If you have information to the contrary, I’d love to hear it.

Doing good works isn’t “virtue signaling”, it is in fact virtuous. Using clean energy isn’t “virtue signaling”, it is in fact virtuous. Recycling isn’t “virtue signaling”, it is in fact virtuous. Donating your entire personal fortune to charity upon your death isn’t “virtue signaling”, it is in fact virtuous. And that’s exactly what drives the Apple and Cook complainers crazy. It must be infuriating.

Still waiting for something relevant, but all I hear is immorality signaling.