{"id":51616,"date":"2015-06-25T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/so-in-case-you-thought-i-am-too-politically-correct.html"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:12:47","slug":"so-in-case-you-thought-i-am-too-politically-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/so-in-case-you-thought-i-am-too-politically-correct.html","title":{"rendered":"So in case you thought I am too politically correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; histories and <i>historical simulations<\/i> are a perfectly appropriate spot for the Confederate battle flag (also the Third Reich flag, etc,).  My suspicion is that Apple has either an intern or some automated process that is seeking out this imagery and behaving in this goofy fashion &#8212; I certainly expect these decisions will be reversed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>OK, this has officially gone too far. If there&#39;s any situation where the rebel flag would be appropriate it&#39;s in a game about the Civil War. Being that it was, you know, used by some of the Confederate armies and all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/06\/apple-bars-civil-war-games-from-app-store-over-confederate-flag-imagery\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/LLV9Oi0i1NC47Wbbd4PRxmVbUBHqWPI5MqReBOArPSWQ9lmXKx5oTVe7OiFLrGcAoeXyd7Jx7eHvaoGG1MCGq8oVKUhxkwDG_5G1D8T7P6bUAGV5SvWMRvgUJ3iyGg=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/06\/apple-bars-civil-war-games-from-app-store-over-confederate-flag-imagery\/'>Apple bars Civil War games from App Store over Confederate flag imagery<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMovies and books featuring the flag remain undisturbed on iTunes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/cAZcrsmJVbX'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; histories and historical simulations are a perfectly appropriate spot for the Confederate battle flag (also the Third Reich flag, etc,). My suspicion is that Apple has either an intern or some automated process that is seeking out this imagery and behaving in this goofy fashion &#8212; I certainly expect these decisions will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/so-in-case-you-thought-i-am-too-politically-correct.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So in case you thought I am too politically correct&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/a-confederate-flag-ban-too-far-i-think.html","url_meta":{"origin":51616,"position":0},"title":"A Confederate flag ban too far, I think","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Jul-15 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm hardly a fan of the Confederate battle flag, the country it represented, or the cause of slavery behind it. 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To others, it's a racist symbol, and it has been used in a racist way.\"And ... neither of those fazes you, Sen. Graham? That the side that lost the civil war against the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51609,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/is-the-american-flag-next.html","url_meta":{"origin":51616,"position":3},"title":"&quot;Is the American flag next?&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Jun-15 2:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Um ... no. That seems unlikely. Unlike the Confederate battle flag, the American flag is, actually, our national flag.Mind you, Americans have a fetish about the stars and stripes that could probably bear with some moderation. 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