turns out one Apple II vendor, ReActiveMicro, apparently bans people from buying from them, and shares that ban with other vendors, for “wokeness”: https://www.reactivemicro.com/terms-and-conditions/
You can and WILL be blacklisted from all purchasing privileges in perpetuity for any of the following:
(snip)
Public postings, comments, declarations, targeting, or encouraging of; libel, slander, defamation, mockery, accusations, attacks, disrespect, discrediting, nonfactual information, wokeness/canceling and/or threats against any or all; members of the Community, RM customers, or personnel
I may have just sent an e-mail to their snitch line sales e-mail specifically asking to be added to the list
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