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If you say you support a particular movement, you’re taking on the whole baggage it brings. If you don’t want the whole baggage then don’t name names.
Currently the left in USA seems to conflate freedom of expression with freedom from different opinions, and, at least the mainstream left, seem to want more government involvement in the policing of speech.
So again, all of this matters, because it shows how they do, or might, define what their principles mean to them versus what they mean to you or me.
Apple’s based in SF. An iPad Pro is like a week’s worth of rent, and to them “work” probably means scribbling a hipster poem while sipping coffee you can’t pronounce without 5 years of language study. How is anything the guy said different from how the conferences always go. The fact that the author found it worthwhile to write about this like this is an actual problem is astounding.