Yes, I hate Paula Deen...here's why...

[jsmirman]

51. Follow through on your point

yes, it was built in China, and yes, that is unspeakably shitty. But I don't walk around telling everyone "apple is great, buy apple!"

In fact, virtually every conversation I have about Steve Jobs or Apple includes my referencing my consternation that so much of their production is linked to China. China has a shitty record of treating humans - unsurprisingly, also a country that favors horrific treatment of animals.

There are very few choices, however. I don't know if you would like me to resort to only pen and paper? China has a virtual stranglehold on the production of computer components. I have a much easier choice when it comes to supporting or refusing to support this awful "food economy" we have in this country. I refuse to eat their products.

The computer situation is analogous to mandatory binding arbitration contracts that come with computer purchases. You can't avoid them, because to avoid them would require one to not own a computer.

And I don't think this makes my argument that Paula Deen's PROMOTION of a company she knows or should know is a purveyor of misery and environmental destruction.

I *hate* that Apple portrays itself as some noble "computer of the people" and then bases their business on doing business with Chinese factories. I have an Apple right now because every other computer I have had in the last ten years has died and left me high and dry. I was taken in by the Apple Image, and am embarrassed to admit that I was surprised to even see packaging that said "made in China."

I fully intend to protest Apple's use of Chinese production facilities at some point in the relatively near future. I think a facebook campaign telling them how many of their customers/potential customers think what they are doing is wrong.

But I don't see how this makes what Paula Deen is doing any better or what alternative course of action you would like me to pursue.