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So Indiana can reintroduce blatant discrimination and no one living outside of Indiana can criticize? I suppose that if Indiana were to legalize the branding of adulterers with a big old A on their foreheads, you would believe the same about criticism.
BTW this law will be declared unconstitutional eventually. If religious bigots dont want to do business with ALL citizens, they dont have to go into business. They can get jobs as laundry workers.
Then decline to do the laundry of people they don't care for and demand their religion be accommodated?
Funny how Tim Cook can so adamantly and passionately speak out about a law which offends his delicate, gay sensitivities. Yet racism is rampant all around him, Apple, the tech industry, and Silicon Valley, without Cook uttering a word about it, or working to fight against it.
More evidence of the selective liberalism in the valley, fighting against progressive causes like gay rights, while the civil rights and equality in the region and tech industry thrive under an insidious modern version of Jim Crow.
Tim Cook should get back to doing his job instead of making public pronouncements about his sexuality and wringing his hands like a biddie-bat over what's going on in another state.
Since everyone is talking about it; being interviewed about it; blogging about it; and NUMEROUS businesses have indicated second thoughts about doing business in IN ~ why shouldn't the CEO of Apple weigh in?
Does his opinion offend your delicate sensibilities? Because I'm sending a good deal of hand wringing in this thread.
Nah, he's just your average guy that happens to be CEO of the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization and the first U.S. company to be valued at over $700 billion. What possible influence could he have?
Do you think Apple does no business in Indiana? How about Salesforce.com, whose CEO has cancelled programs that require travel to Indiana? Or GenCom, the gaming convention that brings in more than $50 million every year, threatening to move to another state? Or Angie’s List, whose CEO Bill Oesterle said the company would halt an expansion in Indianapolis scheduled to begin next week. Yelp has said they will not maintain or expand a business presence in Indiana due to the legislation. And Eli Lilly and Company, the global drug giant, which employs more than 11,000 workers in the state, has condemned the law, calling it “bad for business.â€
Indiana does not exist in a vacuum. Although they seem to be working hard to make it that way.
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Originally Posted by chuckmann
So Indiana can reintroduce blatant discrimination and no one living outside of Indiana can criticize? I suppose that if Indiana were to legalize the branding of adulterers with a big old A on their foreheads, you would believe the same about criticism.
BTW this law will be declared unconstitutional eventually. If religious bigots dont want to do business with ALL citizens, they dont have to go into business. They can get jobs as laundry workers.
Let Tim Cook put his money where his mouth is. All the rest of them too. The U.S. has 21 states and the federal government with Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Let Apple close all their Apple Stores in Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, etc and stop doing business with the federal government.
Funny how Tim Cook can so adamantly and passionately speak out about a law which offends his delicate, gay sensitivities. Yet racism is rampant all around him, Apple, the tech industry, and Silicon Valley, without Cook uttering a word about it, or working to fight against it.
More evidence of the selective liberalism in the valley, fighting against progressive causes like gay rights, while the civil rights and equality in the region and tech industry thrive under an insidious modern version of Jim Crow.
Then decline to do the laundry of people they don't care for and demand their religion be accommodated?
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Not impressed by Cook
