Shit That Pissed me Off This Week – 6/29
Iranian Americans Told They are Not Allowed to Buy an iPad because Racism
I’ve been an Apple customer for a long time. There are more Apple products in my house than there are bathrooms. It’s pretty sad.
This story is a publicity nightmare and I’m pissed they didn’t have the intelligence to publicly state “you know what – we messed up.”
While Apple has a policy against exporting their products to Iran (because what Iran needs to bring down the US is clearly lots and lots of iPads), that doesn’t mean that anyone who speaks Farsi should be denied service.
A vital piece of the dreaded Iranian “iPad enrichment” program
Hell, I think it is a pretty major invasion of privacy just to ask what language was being spoken. If I was speaking a foreign language in an Apple store and an employee asked me what language it was, I’d tell them it was none of their business. Especially now.
Come on Apple! Wake up and admit your policy is screwed and tell people you won’t be denying service to anyone based on what language they speak. To achieve your goal of world domination by 2018, it is a necessary step.
You can’t dominate the world if you don’t dominate Iran. I think Napoleon said that.
Shit that Pissed me off This Week – 4/27
This isn’t the first time WI State Senator has put his foot in it. Now has claimed women actually want to be single mothers and that women are “trained” to tell doctors their pregnancies are unplanned so they can get an abortion.
Where did this come from? There must be a woman in his past who really shafted him and now he is taking it out on her entire sex.
I might be reading too much into the situation. It’s possible he’s just an asshole.
Hey, I have an idea! Let’s make some gross generalizations about Immigration!
I’ve seen this meme on Facebook a few times and I’ve dismissed it as something I would rather ignore. I guess that I just finally saw it one too many times and I think that it is time to really parse out what they are saying to understand the point this meme is trying to make.
Let’s start with what I must assume this means:
Shooting illegal immigrants is a better solution than allowing them into our country. I mean, look at what they do in North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran. Now those are some countries we all want to emulate!
Shit that pissed me off this week – 3/30
Anti-Gay group starts Dump Starbucks Campaign
You know, the whole “we don’t hate gay people” drumbeat gets pretty old when you keep doing hateful bullshit like this. The campiagn is in response to the following:
On January 12th, 2012, Starbucks issued a memorandum declaring that same-sex marriage ‘is core to who we are and what we value as a company.’
As annoyed as I am at this petition, I note that some other folks have started a “send a thank you card to Starbucks” campaign, which, as of this morning, had almost twenty times as many supporters. Their initial goal was 40,000. They are almost at 500,000, which doesn’t piss me off – it’s fantastic.
If you haven’t followed the link and thanked Starbucks yet, make sure you do. They earned it.
Racism and Making Excuses
The world of social media is amazing. Over the last few weeks, there has been a ton of information about Trayvon Martin. Lots of details are emerging. Was he a victim of racial prejudice? A scared kid trying to defend himself? Was he a violent aggressor? I don’t know all the details and nobody will ever know all of them because the victim is dead and he can’t tell his side of the story.
All of this information is playing out in real time and you can find new details about the case emerging by the minute. Here’s what bothers me, though.
There should be no question that Martin’s race was a factor in this situation. He was a black youth out past dark in a predominantly white neighborhood. It doesn’t matter what anyone says to come up with some other “reasonable” justification. Martin is dead because he was black.
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