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Exactly, it's virtue signaling. This week, it's fashionable to attack and punish North Carolina. Next week, it will be somewhere else, probably also in the US.
by caseysoftware 11y ago
Exactly, it's virtue signaling.
This week, it's fashionable to attack and punish North Carolina.
Next week, it will be somewhere else, probably also in the US.
But Paypal will never cease business in Saudi Arabia or anywhere in the Muslim world where the government executes gay people.
We shouldn't celebrate or support people "standing for their beliefs" when they're not actually risking anything.
- daj40 11y agoI wouldn't say they're risking nothing. Sure, they're not shutting down existing offices and removing themselves from markets, but they probably walked away from money they wont get back. I'm sure there were legal fees, plus people they might have already begun to recruit. So yes, its not a large risk, but its not like it didn't come at a loss for them.