A Modest Proposal to Increase Correctness in Corporations

Corporations from Walmart to Amazon to Ebay have been rushing around removing the rebel battle flag and, one presumes, clothing and toys displaying it from their inventory. Apple has gone further and banned even Civil War games  depicting the flag incidentally as part of a historic scene.  These companies are free to do so, and I have no interest in owning a Confederate battle flag. I’m strictly a Union man. However despite these gestures in the way of correctness and approved thinking, there remains  a long way to go before achieving total purity. 

Imagine an organization still existing and still influential today which was the main political supporter of slavery, an organization whose members started the Civil War to defend slavery  and then, after losing the war, created and defended segregation and Jim Crow for almost a hundred years. Imagine that organization gave the country its only pro-Klan and segregationist president and had an admitted Klansman as one of its leaders as recently as a couple of decades or so ago.  One would have  to expect the same companies which have distanced themselves so righteously from a mere symbol (and a somewhat ambiguous one at that) would have to wash their hands of such a tainted group.

Well such a group does exist. It is called the Democratic Party, and its members did all those things. So in the name of consistency, shouldn’t  these companies and   Apple in particular need to cut all ties to the Democratic Party and remove any items or apps related to that party or showing its symbol in any way?  After all, there is no point in being halfway correct or sort of pure on something like this.