It's not a "perceived slight" but a determined campaign to smear Apple for an agenda for which they are not responsible and have actually done far more than any other company to relieve, yet get more undeserved blame in the mainstream press like the article you linked. If I don't respond with the truth, many people accept the post as presented as the truth rather than the lying propaganda it actually was.
For example the general public is certain Apple deliberately employs underage workers and the suicides occurred at an Apple assembly plant and the working conditions were horrid. They didn't and they weren't. It was all hype which Apple had nothing to do with, but the headline writers put Apple in the headline because it drew more clicks and eyes, even though Apple and Apple products were not even peripherally involved in the suicides. . . or that the "kids" who got hired had lied on their applications for employment and used false or stolen IDs to get the jobs mattered and that it was against Apple policy. The public believes these things because China Labor Watch, a leftist organization, wants it that way and always uses Apple as their poster child and fakes videos using non-Apple factories, non-Apple shills in their quotes, and otherwise is a fraud in their propaganda.
My comment was not a “campaign” nor should you have taken it as such if you were not predisposed to be in-the-tank Apple in every case. I explained that to you and you still persist. I’ll just avoid your threads in future. They make no unbiased point for me.