Why HRC is a pointless lobby: Reason #4280
Queerty acerbically reports: Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese just released a badly-written statement about Tennessee’s corporate-sponsored anti-LGBT bill. In it, he says that the 13 corporations who originally sponsored the bill and now oppose because it makes them look like bigots it are “on the leading edge of positive change.” Ummmm…. no.
Here’s Joe’s acrobatic abortion of the English language(!):
Being on the “leading edge of positive change” means, y’know, actually LEADING social change in a helpful direction. Supporting an anti-LGBT bill, stammering from the negative press after it passes, and then offering lukewarm statements opposing the very bill you helped pass is not “a strong signal that corporations are on the leading edge of positive change.” It’s a strong signal that your opinions and policies change depending on who’s paying attention, which is the very definition of spinelessness.
Keep in mind, the 13 corporate board members of Tennessee Chamber of Commerce all knew that the bill would repeal LGBT rights as far back as a month ago. And what’s worse is that this law doesn’t just repeal Nashville’s current LGBT employment protections, it also prohibits any future attempts to provide such protections by any city clear across the state.
--> Preach it, Queerty!
Here’s Joe’s acrobatic abortion of the English language(!):
“Discrimination should have no place in the Volunteer State and the Chamber’s opposition to this law sent a strong signal that corporations are on the leading edge of positive change. In contrast Governor Haslam has put discrimination ahead of the state’s values and even business interests by signing this horrible legislation.”
Being on the “leading edge of positive change” means, y’know, actually LEADING social change in a helpful direction. Supporting an anti-LGBT bill, stammering from the negative press after it passes, and then offering lukewarm statements opposing the very bill you helped pass is not “a strong signal that corporations are on the leading edge of positive change.” It’s a strong signal that your opinions and policies change depending on who’s paying attention, which is the very definition of spinelessness.
Keep in mind, the 13 corporate board members of Tennessee Chamber of Commerce all knew that the bill would repeal LGBT rights as far back as a month ago. And what’s worse is that this law doesn’t just repeal Nashville’s current LGBT employment protections, it also prohibits any future attempts to provide such protections by any city clear across the state.
--> Preach it, Queerty!
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