Last month, North Carolina passed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, a law that excludes L.G.B.T. individuals from discrimination protections and prevents the creation of gender-identity-based non-discrimination policies by individual cities. The most incendiary aspect of the bill may be the fact that it requires individuals to use public bathrooms that correspond with the gender they were assigned at birth. Before the passage of the controversial law, PayPal announced plans to open a new operations center in North Carolina, employing more than 400 people. But on Tuesday, PayPal president and C.E.O. Dan Schulman fired back against the law, scrapping its plans to open an operations hub in the state. “The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture,” Schulman said in a statement. “As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte.”
PayPal is hardly alone in its protest of the law, which critics say is discriminatory toward L.G.B.T. individuals. Last week, C.E.O.s from tech companies including Facebook, Apple, Lyft, Google, Salesforce, Dropbox, and Tumblr sent a letter to North Carolina governor Pat McCrory urging him to repeal the law. Google Ventures founder Bill Maris pledged that his firm wouldn’t make new investments in North Carolina unless the law was repealed.
This also comes as up to 13 companies have either canceled or are possibly relocating their conventions out of Charlotte, and another 29 have expressed concern conducting their business in the state.
Am I the only one that finds it hypocritical that these companies are boycotting North Carolina but do business in countries that are much worse?
Not really. America is the one place where money talks; so boycotting states via money is a valuable method in general anyway. A lot of those countries wouldn't care as much because of how ingrained their belief systems are.
poor them literally.
