If you were black, do you think you would be worrying about a watch face and band like you are?
Normally people just ignore or don't buy what they don't like, not clutch their pearls, act fake offended and get their Karen on.
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If you were black, do you think you would be worrying about a watch face and band like you are?
Normally people just ignore or don't buy what they don't like, not clutch their pearls, act fake offended and get their Karen on.
You and your friends need one?
What's politicized about this? it's a watch face and band. Either buy or don't.
Are bands and watch faces based around countries flags politicized? Do you care about that?
Your post is super dishonest.
Funny how "some" in the so called majority act. I didn't realize everything had to be based around and for that majority.
if you think the polite opposition and disagreement with the unity product is *checks notes* “a venomous and hateful position” that people are taking, then you’re exhibit A as to why so many people cannot engage in political discourse or discourse involving groups. Nobody in here has gotten angry, except those on the left that seem flabbergasted that we have the temerity to suggest that releasing products that target only specific groups is exclusionary. This isn’t going to ruin anyone’s day.
I wish I could like that post a million times! Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!
It really should be a shame that something like this is politicized.
Hugely. And the top comment saying "Um, No this isn't wanted." isn't being removed for blatant racism.
Then there's "I didn't realize it was "black unity"... I thought it was just "unity". Yikes. Guess I'll wait for the white unity band then, hopefully I can celebrate that one if males are included." < - - Like why is this still here?
That my friends, is a textbook strawman. Who in here has lobbied for "everything" to be based around a majority of people? The answer is no one. I'm pretty sure lots of folks have said they want other options also OR as I stated, wished Apple would do this for charities or causes for a cure.
That's not the same.
How is the person's post saying it isn't wanted, "blatant racism"? Are people supposed to be made to want this?
As to your second paragraph, it is to show the hypocrisy of allowing a group/ethnicity/race to have a particular product pushing "unity", but not another. The left would have eviscerated Apple had they released a "Jewish Unity" series of products, after Oct. 7, 2023, but this is fine. How about we look to come together around ideas or shared values rather than by group/race?
Racism is alive and well in the MacRumors forums.
If they wanted it removed, it would be removed. Take that as you wish.
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I know many people who use them. Not everyone inhabits homogeneous spaces
I’m black and plan to buy the band. Just like I’ve bought a pride band. Since you aren’t black maybe you should consider not trying to speak for others.
Show us, please. Oh, I get it, any opposition to anything the left loves is racist/fascist/every other "ist" word the left misuses, abuses, and has caused people to just not care about anymore.
Yes, you seem really interested in me "showing you" by immediately following up with a straw man.
The first reply is racist as hell. Just because someone doesn't scream "I hate Black people" while wearing a white hood doesn't mean they aren't saying something racist.
Looking forward to the inevitable Pride month meltdown when they release those Pride-themed watch bands and wallpapers. Always amusing how the "I don't care" crowd somehow musters enough energy to rant about it. Real indifference means scrolling past without comment, but instead we'll get the usual flood of hateful responses.
Isn't that just the damn thing??? "I don't care!!! I REALLY DON'T!!!! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING WHEN I DO NOT CARE!!!!"
Sure, Jan...
You said so yourself:Apple is a GLOBAL company. There are entire countries and even an entire continent that is majority black. For that matter, white people are a minority worldwide. So if watch faces and watch bands appeal to black, Japanese, Muslim, or Buddhist people… it makes sense. Good business for them.
It wasn't racist, you're just someone, typical of the "modern left" that views opposition and disagreement as an "ism". You people are impossible to have discourse with. There were no strawmen in my post.
I'm so thankful for Apple reminding me that black people exist, I wouldn't have known without bands like this
'Cause y'all not so subtly get really vocal about a sudden desire to "come together" and "share values" when someone gives black folk recognition.
I would take any of you more seriously if you'd have this same feeling every other day of the year, and get loud about it.