“It’s not about HB2 because PayPal does business in Saudi Arabia and China. It is instead about a frenzy that the mayor and her allies on city council have whipped up."
Did this sh*thead just equate North Carolina with Saudi Arabia???
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PayPal on Tuesday announced that it has withdrawn plans to open an operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina…
Pulled out prematurely, I think is the correct term…
“PayPal does business in Saudi Arabia”
Selling a product to people you disagree with is not the same as moving your employees to a hostile location. PayPal is not making a moral judgement and looking to shame you. PayPal actually cares about the people who work for them.
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Yes he did…the Saudi of the South.
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And this action puts some pressure on other businesses to follow suit — YEA ! ! —
Funny craigslist sale relating to HB2…
Search “giant scissors” for the Charlotte region.
Don’t just move the game. Move the Hornets.
I know it’s impractical, but listening to McCrory continue to claim this isn’t hurting the NC economy will be fun as their NBA franchise moves to Nevada or something… Well, it would be sweet
“When I cautioned Mayor Roberts in January not to drive our community into this turmoil, this is the kind of thing I recognized would be a possibility,” Bishop told the Charlotte Observer. “It’s not about HB2 because PayPal does business in Saudi Arabia and China. It is instead about a frenzy that the mayor and her allies on city council have whipped up.”
I’ve never seen someone make such a great point, and a such a moronic one in such short succession! The idea that this is the mayor’s fault is just categorically false. But PayPal and all the other companies that are deciding not to do business in North Carolina, but do business with Saudi Arabia and other places with horrible human rights records? That’s a pretty good fucking point.
Where is the outrage from them over killing atheists or other apostates and blasphemers? Over female-genital mutilation (male is bad too, but that’s a conversation for another time)? Over convicting women for being raped? Couldn’t major companies do enormous good if they took a stand and demanded change before they did business in/with other countries with far worse records?
Am I wrong here? Doesn’t Bishop make a good point? (seriously asking, maybe it’s a false equivalency I’m not seeing).
@littlegirlblue----------thanks for the link. HappyFeetDancing.
Paypal isn’t refusing to do business in SC, just to build an operations center there, which would employ locals and pay corporate taxes.
Do they have business centers in those countries? Or do they just do business inside their borders?
Living here makes me want to dance as well. Lee’s predecessor Gavin Newsom led the City into its acceptance of gay rights, but not before being roundly criticized, things being what they are, the enlightened Newsom will be the next governor come 2018
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Yes, they made ominous threats a year ago during Indiana’s brief foray into the madness.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nascaar+gay+bill&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Wait. Not the NBA All-Star game. We welcome them openly. (They’re all white, aren’t they?)