Corporations Take Aim at Conservatives | The American Spectator
– 4.1.16
One way or another, the right is being ordered out of everyday society.
Do-gooders pressure corporate baddies to stop subsidizing America’s most notorious hate group: the Republican Party.
“These companies have a choice right now, a history-making choice,” Rashad Robinson, Color of Change executive director, told the New York Times. “Do they want riots brought to us by Coca Cola?”
The Old Gray Lady this week detailed the Grand Old Party’s difficulties enticing corporate behemoths, including Coke, to provide sponsorship to its convention at previous levels. “Tell the CEOs, Chief Marketing Officers, and Senior Vice Presidents of Public Affairs at Coca-Cola, Google, Xerox, AT&T, Adobe Systems, and Cisco,” Color of Change instructs its followers. “Immediately cancel your sponsorship of a Donald Trump-led Republican National Convention,” an event it characterizes as advancing “hate-filled and racist rhetoric,” “intolerance,” and “violent attacks against minority groups and women.”
The bad business of alienating roughly half of potential customers more often involves policy than campaigns.
Last week, the NBA, along with Disney, Salesforce, and other multibillion-dollar corporations, threatened to review business in the Tar Heel State because of a new North Carolina law that restricts multiple-person public bathrooms in government facilities to use by the sex indicated on the door insignia, a rule heretofore so uncontroversial that codifying it by legislation seemed redundant. ...
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“These companies have a choice right now, a history-making choice,” Rashad Robinson, Color of Change executive director, told the New York Times. “Do they want riots brought to us by Coca Cola?”
The Old Gray Lady this week detailed the Grand Old Party’s difficulties enticing corporate behemoths, including Coke, to provide sponsorship to its convention at previous levels. “Tell the CEOs, Chief Marketing Officers, and Senior Vice Presidents of Public Affairs at Coca-Cola, Google, Xerox, AT&T, Adobe Systems, and Cisco,” Color of Change instructs its followers. “Immediately cancel your sponsorship of a Donald Trump-led Republican National Convention,” an event it characterizes as advancing “hate-filled and racist rhetoric,” “intolerance,” and “violent attacks against minority groups and women.”
The bad business of alienating roughly half of potential customers more often involves policy than campaigns.
Last week, the NBA, along with Disney, Salesforce, and other multibillion-dollar corporations, threatened to review business in the Tar Heel State because of a new North Carolina law that restricts multiple-person public bathrooms in government facilities to use by the sex indicated on the door insignia, a rule heretofore so uncontroversial that codifying it by legislation seemed redundant. ...
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