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PayPal Has a Hypocrisy Problem

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 13:09
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Let’s start off this piece with the understanding that hypocrisy is a liberal virtue. They won’t openly claim to be hypocrites, but they will openly engage in hypocritical behavior. Without that glaring absence of self-awareness, the progressive left would likely lose some of their Stalinesque charm.

Now, turn your focus to PayPal. As reported here, yesterday, PayPal has withdrawn plans to expand their operations in North Carolina, in response to the newly passed House Bill 2, or the “bathroom bill,” which prohibits NC cities from setting gender neutral policies for all businesses and schools in their area. The bill came as a response to a Charlotte, NC ordinance that was set to go into effect on April 1, 2016, that would have allowed men to enter the locker rooms or bathrooms of women, in accordance with how they claimed to “feel,” gender-wise, for that day. It was broadly worded and invited chaos and otherwise put the comfort and safety of other citizens at risk. Governor Pat McCrory signed the bill into effect and the great clutching of liberal pearls began from all the usual suspects.

PayPal is but one of the players who have tried to blackmail Gov. McCrory and the state of North Carolina into compliance with the progressive worldview.

The mayor of San Francisco, CA has prohibited business travel to the state, as has New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (although trips to Communist Cuba are A-OK). More recently, Cuyahoga County, OH Executive Armond Budish has joined the ban on any non-essential business travel to North Carolina.

The Obama administration has threatened to cut federal funding for housing, transportation, and schools to the state, because, after all, preserving the right of men to use the little girls’ room is a matter of human rights, or something.

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor, Dan Forest, issued a statement today, in regards to PayPal’s decision to cease expansion in the state:

“If our action in keeping men out of women’s bathrooms and showers protected the life of just one child or one woman from being molested or assaulted, then it was worth it. North Carolina will never put a price tag on the value of our children. They are precious and priceless. If a corporation wanting to do business in North Carolina does not see the worth of our children in the same light, then I wish them well as they do business somewhere else.”

Kudos to North Carolina’s state government for holding the line, where other states have stood, only to quickly fold under outside pressure, in this war against cultural Marxism.

Getting back to PayPal and their hypocrisy, it behooves us to point out that they have no problem maintaining operations in areas like Singapore, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia – all known for their stringent anti-LGBT policies (and they don’t stop at just prohibiting mixed bathrooms).

Also, while PayPal would see North Carolina’s women and children put in harm’s way, simply to save the feelings of what amounts to 0.3% of the population, they don’t exactly practice what they preach. Lt. Governor Forest displayed this picture of PayPal’s global operations center on his Facebook page today. They’ve highlighted the symbol indicating the way to the Men’s restroom – not “gender neutral,” but an honest-to-goodness, segregated-by-gender bathroom!

Paymen

PayPal, like every other business, is free to conduct their business any way they see fit. If that means they just can’t tolerate doing business with a state that keeps bathrooms and public shower rooms separated for the privacy and safety of the different sexes, then so be it. However, they should know that their customers are equally free to decide if they want to do business with a company that doesn’t reflect their values and would use coercive means to force their beliefs on that population.

There are unsubstantiated reports of PayPal office phone lines being backed up with calls of users cancelling their accounts, in protest of their stance against North Carolina’s bathroom bill.

Time will tell who suffers the most damage in this cultural conflict.

The post PayPal Has a Hypocrisy Problem appeared first on RedState.



Source: http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/04/06/paypal-hypocrisy-problem/

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