. . . why conservatives should stop doing business with progressive social justice warriors disguised as businesses.
PayPal has announced that it will not open a new operations center in North Carolina, because of the state's new "bathroom law" -- a law that sensibly requires people to use public, multi-occupancy bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. PayPal thinks this is horrible. To put it bluntly, PayPal's "corporate values" include involuntarily exposing women and girls to male nudity . . .
. . . as a condition of going to the bathroom. This used to be called sexual harassment and indecent exposure. Now it's called social justice. (David French, "Let's Not Mince Words About PayPal," nationalreview.com, April 7, 2016)
How pious. How noble. How hypocritical. / The hysteria ginned up over a law that keeps men from using women's restrooms is to be expected. It's what social justice warriors do best. / But where's the outrage over PayPal's decision to locate offices in some of the most anti-gay countries in the world? (Rick Moran, "The Hypocrisy of PayPal's 'Mission and Culture'," pjmedia.com, April 5, 2016).
Mr. Moran follows with a takedown of PayPal's hypocritical practice of locating offices in Dubai (death penalty for being gay), Moscow ("gay propaganda" is a crime), Turkey (honor killings, police abuse of the transgendered), India (10 years in prison for kissing a member of the same sex), Malaysia (police abuse of the transgendered).
It's nauseating. Companies have a perfect right to expand wherever they wish. They can even use social justice yardsticks to justify their positions -- just as long as they are consistent across the board when it comes to locating offices overseas. What justification is there for punishing an American state for passing a law inconsistent with what PayPal sees as its values regarding LBGT issues, when the company opens an office in Dubai where gay people are executed?
It's well past time for traditionalists and conservatives to stop doing business with companies that bully American citizens and their elected officials on issues such as this, and in the process debase politics and culture?
Why send our kids to colleges with illiberal speech codes, faculties that regard their mission as the inculcation of progressivism, and sex codes that persecute young men for crimes that are in many cases imaginary, with no semblance of due process ("sex panic," one commentator calls it).
And why do we subscribe to newspapers that openly display their contempt for conservatives and their values and ideas, that distort the news accordingly, that with no sense of shame refuse to hire any local conservative columnists or editorialists, and that openly support the values and ideas of the social justice warriors -- Occupy Wall Street, anyone? -- whose unifying characteristic is disdain for America and the West?
On this last point, I plead hypocrisy. The Houston Chronicle -- guilty on all counts -- still darkens my doorstep each morning. Shame on me. I'm addicted to newspapers, even when the pushers have adulterated the product beyond recognition.
But I'll get even. When I am pushing up daisies and my kid, who is not so addicted, probates the will, he'll stop the subscription in a heartbeat.
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