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>way beyond that

By quoting Luther King? I'm having a hard time seeing what you find wrong here.

There's a bunch of stuff to choose from, but I'll just pick one at random. He said: "we are all equal". Though we all should be treated equally under the law, and we all deserve equal protections for certain things, as a point of fact, we are not all equal.

That's exactly what it fucking means.

"We are all equal" obviously, clearly means "we are all entitled to equal treatment", not "there are literally no differences between any two people."

I agree with your interpretation and don't actually understand how this bit is even a sensible thing to nitpick.

Motte and Bailey argument. If that's what Cook meant he could have written that. He wanted to have it both ways.

Oh gosh golly I can see why you got riled up over such a massive issue like that line. Tell me more.

Just reread Cook's speech with an eye towards what statements there is not a 99+% consensus on. Those are the political statements. I'm an Apple developer, shareholder, and end-user, and I don't want Cook making political statements.

>Just reread Cook's speech with an eye towards what statements there is not a 99+% consensus on.

The statement you quoted is one such statement.

It's hard to tell if you're being sincere, because what you pointed to as an example of a political statement is utterly baffling.

If you think 99% of people agree with that, you're living in a bubble.

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