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Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen
pdclarry writes "An Iranian-American teenager was told by an Apple store employee that they could not sell her an iPad because it would violate U.S. trade restrictions. She returned to the store with a camera crew from a local TV station and was again turned down. Apparently an Apple employee heard her speaking Farsi. As he was also of Iranian extraction he recognized the language and used this as a basis for refusal."
Lawsuit of the year incoming! Raw, unbridled racism from Apple, which is apparently company policy. Think different, indeed.
Great Intellect...
None of the Apple haters here care about facts. And neither do the morons who try to find racism or other forms of discrimination under every rock.
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Look at it from the Apple employee's point of view: He sees a person who looks vaguely Iranian and speaks their language. That means there is a small chance that they may actually be from Iran. They probably aren't, and just have some recent ancestry or family connections there, but there is still a small chance. Now, if they are and he sells them an iPad, he could go to jail and/or Apple could face massive fines. On the other hand, if they aren't and he refuses service, the worst that could happen is a lost sale (The media interest being unanticipated). So he opted to play it safe.
In fact, he should be commended for doing this. And the girl should be carefully looked at by DHS.
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It's my job to make sure that this Third Reich piece of shit cannot post a single comment, and I don't care if it's about compiling a Linux driver, without being clearly identified for what he is. As long as he's on Slashdot, I'm going to make sure he wears a nice big red swastika on his forehead.
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Her culpability is irrelevant. The clerk acted on insufficient data. What data was he acting on then? Obvious answer: Racism.
Prove it you busy body jackboot licking illogical fuck.
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are soldiers more credible and trustworthy than people who aren't in the military?
Of course they are, on average anyway, not that that's relevent to the topic at hand. The average soldier simply has far more self-discipline and self-respect than the average American. That's the natural result of dealing with day-to-day hardships and an unforgiving environment - anyone who has to deal with that shit tends, on average, to be better grounded.
Of course, like anything else, it's a bell curve, but the difference is pretty obvious if you regularly interact with 20-somethings who are recently out of the military and those who aren't.
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So, you have TWO different accouts of Muslim criminals refusing to speak English in public who openly acknowledge planning to violate US export restrictions but take their word for it that when they spoke in Farsi, they weren't saying X despite someone else claiming they did. Gosh, I am odd, I do not take the word of a self-confessed would be criminal at face value. You do?
Anyway, why can't these Iranians buy some Muslim build technology instead? Protest a countries laws while fleeing there, to send gifts to the country you fled against the rules of your supposed new home country.
Considering this woman has friendly relations with a country that hangs people for drinking, I cannot really feel much sympathy when she feels the repression of another country's system when she is refused an iPad. Fix your own race/religion many troubles first before you start bitching about someone else.
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