Being Woke is hard. The mental energy needed to justify so many self-righteous positions is exhausting, and that's not even factoring in the energy needed to maintain your moral superiority by virtue signaling.

Fortunately, world-class corporations like Apple have plenty of money to maintain that whitewashing process. Unfortunately for Apple, however, when actual injustices pop up that might affect their bottom line – and thus said whitewashing process – a few people might need to be sacrificed for the greater good of more products being sold.

Here are two headlines from this past year as an example:

The first article is from July when the Black Lives Matter movement was in full swing. PC Magazine reported that Apple was telling its developers to not use programming terms such as "master/slave" and "blacklist/whitelist."

It didn't matter that these terms were established across the industry and had absolutely nothing to do with slavery or racial injustice – what mattered was that it sounded like "non-inclusive language," so it needed to go.

Take the example of "blacklist," which some people believe "perpetuates racial stereotyping." Sure, the term has absolutely nothing to do with racism or skin tone, instead dating to the early 1600s as a juxtaposition of light and dark as good and evil. But what matters now is not the actual meaning of words, but what the ruling Woke class thinks they mean.

The New Psalm 51:10: "Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be [a non-specified color of greater saturation than frozen precipitation]."

The New Proverbs 20:20: "The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in [a non-specific color of lower luminosity]."

Yes, you can rest assured that Apple is a leader in freedom, human rights, and justice – at least when it comes to making little changes here and there to let the public know should get three or four new products this year.

When it comes to the heavy lifting, however, like standing up to the world's largest police state and taking a stand against the brutal enslavement of millions at the cost of their own profitability – well, that's too much to ask.

It also isn't enough to simply look the other way: no, Apple has made sure to fight against policies that would help Uyghurs so their customers can virtue signal about justice on their iPhone of choice.

Last month, the news broke that Apple is actively trying to water down a bill that would hold companies accountable for Uyghur forced labor in China:

"Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, highlighting the clash between its business imperatives and its official stance on human rights," said the Washington Post.

Here and here and here and here are articles showing the abject horrors China is committing against this minority people group right now. It's disgusting on historic levels. At least when Hitler and Stalin killed their millions, most of the world didn't know about it.

China's doing it in the era of the internet, smartphones, and satellites.

Apple's supply chains rely on cheap Chinese labor, and cheap Chinese labor depends on Uyghur slaves. Apparently, Apple and dozens of other U.S. companies (including Patagonia, Coca-Cola, and Costco) were shocked when the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act – sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) – passed 406 to 3 in the House in September. That type of bipartisan support is barely seen in D.C. anymore.

Apple has claimed multiple times that they've investigated their own supply lines and found no evidence of slavery. That's about as trustworthy as Iran saying it's investigated its own nuclear facilities.

The Washington Post's article details plenty of irregularities in that assessment and implicates other tech companies such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

The bottom line? It's easy to address past slavery by changing terms and virtue signaling to make yourself feel better.

It's a whole lot harder to cut into your bottom line and take on tyrants.

Remember that the next time a global company tries to dictate morality to you.