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Title: Selective outrage? Top companies rip Indiana, reap profits in brutal nations
Source: Fox News
URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201 ... eap-profits-in-brutal-nations/
Published: Apr 5, 2015
Author: Brian Mastroianni
Post Date: 2015-04-05 16:17:03 by nativist nationalist
Keywords: None
Views: 1041
Comments: 4

Big-name American companies blasting Indiana over a law they say promotes discrimination based on sexual orientation check their social consciences at the border when it comes to doing business in nations where gay people face persecution and even death for their orientation, say critics.

Companies including Apple, The Gap and Levi’s - all of which do business in nations with abysmal human rights records - were among the harshest critics of the Hoosier State’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which advocates say defends religious freedom and is similar to a federal law and regulations on the books in more than a dozen states. Other companies have even taken the unusual step of banning employees from “non-essential” travel to Indiana over the law, which state lawmakers revised to bar for-profit businesses from refusing to serve the public based on sexual orientation. But the amended version only came after executives behind some of America’s best-known brands came down hard on Indiana.

“Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open,” Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in a Washington Post Op-Ed this week. “Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love. Regardless of what the law might allow in Indiana or Arkansas, we will never tolerate discrimination.”

The openly-gay Cook made no reference to the fact that Apple’s website proudly notes its products are sold through authorized dealers in such countries as Iran, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, all countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death. That has some critics wondering why the corporate outrage is so narrowly focused on the Midwest.

“It seems remarkable that he’s doing business in countries that execute gays and lesbians simply for being gay,” Ryan Anderson, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told FoxNews.com.

Clothing retailers Gap and Levi Strauss also blasted the bill despite operating company stores in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In a joint statement, Gap CEO Art Beck and Levi's boss Chip Bergh criticized Indiana's law and a similar one recently passed in Arkansas.

“As Indiana, Arkansas and states around the country enact and consider legislation that perpetuates discrimination, we’re urging state legislatures to stand up for equality by repealing and voting against these discriminatory laws,” the two stated. “These new laws and legislation that allow people and businesses to deny service to people based on their sexual orientation turn back the clock on equality and foster a culture of intolerance.”

Another outspoken opponent of the first draft of the Indiana law was Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com, a San Francisco-based cloud computing company. He took to Twitter to announce that his business would cancel “all programs that require our customers/employees to travel to Indiana to face discrimination.” Benioff even announced the company will try to help employees who live in Indiana and move out of the state.

Critics say Benioff, like Cook, has a selective sense of outrage. Noting salesforce.com has a branch in Beijing, Mollie Hemingway, of The Federalist, cited a recent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report on China, which accused the nation of “particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims, Catholics, Protestants and practitioners of Falun Gong face imprisonment, torture and even organ harvesting, according to the commission.

“I guess we can at least say Benioff is showing consistency in his dislike of religious liberty,” Hemingway wrote.

In addition, salesforce.com has a global reach through a network of “partners,” some of whom do business in some of the world’s most brutal nations. Cloud Concept, which is touted by salesforce.com’s website as the “longest-serving and most trusted salesforce.com Gold Cloud Alliance Partner in the Middle East,” has a presence in the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Similarly, NSI, another one of salesforce.com’s partners, has a presence in the same three countries, where gays can face execution for their sexual orientation.

When asked if Benioff's social media statements regarding Indiana were at odds with the company's global business practices, salesforce.com officials declined to comment. Officials from Apple and The Gap also declined to comment on how they reconciled their outrage at Indiana's law with doing business in countries that deal harshly with gays.

Conservatives such as Anderson and Hemingway are not the only ones who see a disconnect with American companies haranguing Indiana lawmakers while making millions of dollars in countries ruled by homophobic dictators and intolerant tinhorns.

“I certainly think in countries where some of these businesses and corporations are directly doing business — where they are liaising with government leaders and trade authorities — I think there is no question, if this is a cause that they want to support they should speak out at the very minimum,” Suzanne Trimel, communications director for the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, told FoxNews.com.

Trimel said that she would like to see some of these companies speak out on oppressive sanctions and human rights violations against LGBT people in these countries in the same way that they spoke out agains the legislation out of Indiana.

“Many of them could ask within their own workplace (in these countries) for non-discrimination policies,” Trimel said. “They could also reach out to local LGBT communities and activists, and try to seek greater diversity in their workforces on the ground … make it clear that they are not accepting of repressive policies or persecutions, which, as we know, are endemic throughout the ‘Global South.’ ”

The juggling act of advocating for one cause domestically while carrying out business in a different country that supports the exact opposite point of view is particularly difficult for these companies from a public relations standpoint, Cayce Myers, legal research editor for the Institute for Public Relations, told FoxNews.com.

“These companies have to be careful in crafting their image,” Myers said. “First, they have to keep in mind, ‘What is the culture and attitude of the public in this other country?’ and secondly, ‘How do I tailor my organization’s message to comport with that?’ ”

However, Myers suggested that it could be very hard for a large company like Apple to release a statement against another country’s laws.

“It’s very tricky for an American company to do that,” Myers added. “In America, we have an evolving public opinion about LGBT rights. In Saudi Arabia, for example, you don’t have that. I don’t have opinion polls or a statistic for that country, but their political tradition is much more informed by religious views — it comes from a different tradition that is very informed by a religious context.”

Still, Trimel said she would like to see these major American companies do more.

“When they (the companies) sit down with trade representatives they could start talking about these issues,” Trimel said. “They could put them in a position where they really have to listen.”


Poster Comment:

Outfits like Apple are similar to the animal rights folks that harass old ladies in furs coats going to the opera, and are not to be seen harassing guys in a biker bar about wearing leather jackets. Here's you chance Apple, stop doing business in places like Saudi Arabia that persecute sodomites.

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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0) (Edited)

Modern companies like to keep one foot in the latest American trendiness and the other in reaping profits from doing business with, and subsididing, brutal nations.

rlk  posted on  2015-04-05   16:33:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

The openly-gay Cook made no reference to the fact that Apple’s website proudly notes its products are sold through authorized dealers in such countries as Iran, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, all countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death. That has some critics wondering why the corporate outrage is so narrowly focused on the Midwest.

why the corporate outrage is so narrowly focused on the Midwest is simple, Mid Westerners don't cut off people they disagree with heads, muslims do.

The heads of Apple, Wal-Mart and other Christian haters want to keep their heads on their shoulders, but worry not, onr fay they will face Christ and then, while they will keep their heads on their shoulders, it will be in outer darkness, the lake of fire.

BobCeleste  posted on  2015-04-05   18:31:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

Hypocrites all of them.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live." (John 11:25)

redleghunter  posted on  2015-04-05   18:34:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: rlk (#1)

They're "conservative" {uhh} "but progressive"

VxH  posted on  2015-04-05   22:10:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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