Apple is the latest company to discontinue merchandise bearing the Confederate flag from its App Store.
Following the tragic church massacre in South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley announced that the Confederate flag would be removed from Statehouse grounds due to its symbolism of racism and its representation of slavery. Retail stores Walmart, Sears and Amazon also pulled products that featured the flag.
Following suit, Apple has now removed several apps that used the Confederate flag in any way. Some of those include strategy games like Civil War: 1862, Civil War: 1863, Civil War: 1864 and Civil War: Gettysburg. However, those titles revolved around the history of that American war, so the Confederate flag's depiction made sense.
Andrew Mulholland, director of the Civil War franchise, told Kotaku that the games were pulled without any warning.
"It seems disappointing that they would remove it as they weren't being used in an offensive way, being that they were historical war games and hence it was the flag used at the time," Mulholland said. "At the moment we're working the games to replace the flags that are deemed offensive."
Mulholland says the banner in the game will be replaced with the one used in 1861 and 1862, since the Confederate flag that is deemed offensive wasn't introduced until late 1862.
"The Dukes of Hazard" game is still available on the app store; it features a car named the General Lee with a Confederate flag atop.
Apple did not immediately respond to the Daily News' request for comment.
No comments:
Post a Comment