The High Price of Ignorance: Paypal Rejects North Carolina
"The law, which overturned a Charlotte city ordinance, was widely interpreted as an attack on LGBT rights. State lawmakers also voted to prohibit local governments from enacting anti-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity."
"The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture," Dan Schulman, Chief Executive Officer said in a statement.
In a letter on March 29, founders and chief executives of more than a hundred companies, including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) urged North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nor...
"The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture," Dan Schulman, Chief Executive Officer said in a statement.
In a letter on March 29, founders and chief executives of more than a hundred companies, including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) urged North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nor...
With any normal issue this could have made the politicians tuck their tails and disappear...but not with this issue!
Human society has been moving in a different direction since the Enlightenment. We are on the verge of a singularity that will allow individual transformations of great potential. This is just part of that trend. Like throwing the British Tea in the Harbor, the action itself is not the question: it is the symbol that the action creates that expresses the coming change.
The moral failings of Chad Turner, such as they may be, do not alter the facts.
Your 2nd paragraph, " Human society has been moving...", is powerful- why must it come through the bathroom door?
And mark my words, rapes will happen. It nearly did to me, back in my college days. I was in a somewhat deserted part of the building when I got caught short. I dashed into the ladies room and there was a man, pants down and waiting. I ran like hell.
I'm not understanding the stretch here, my wife and I were in a Sears store not long ago to pickup a Samsung TV that was on sale for our RV, and the only person in the department was this freak of a teenager (male), wearing women's high heels, a dress, a bone or something through his nose (septum), long hair in a clasp/pony-tail, hadn't shaved, but wearing makeup and eye shadow. Really? He couldn't have just put on some khakis and a shirt, shaved, skipped the makeup to go to work in? Why is it necessary to scream "I'm a freak and you have to accept me!"? Somehow I suspect he didn't show up for the job interview looking like that. I don't feel the need to walk around with a sign on my forehead that says I'm a heterosexual, I don't understand the need for self-fulfillment. It's more about shoving it in society's face, not meeting some kind of unfulfilled personal actualization. I ordered the stupid thing for will-call pickup from the Sears website on my iPhone and walked over to the customer service counter to pick it up.
In North Carolina's case, I can see the horny little 14-21 year old perverts putting on their sister's dress just to hang out in the women's bathroom or locker rooms. The law was very specific about the high school & college locker rooms by the way.
That has nothing to do with being discriminatory, this is just common sense.
You create an interesting set of bed-fellows in "… the left, their pandering corporations, etc. …" Etc could be anybody, but just the left and corporations together suggests to me that you blame collectivists for the existence of capitalism. To quote a famous cartoon: "You need to be more explicit in Step 2." In other words, you have to show that "the left" and "corporations" have so many commonalities that they are natural allies, as, in fact, they themselves tend to see things quite differently.
There are both the discriminatory issues, and there are also the issues of expectation of privacy for the majority which are not LGBT, the issue in NC is mostly about which bathroom and locker room is used, not some activity that precludes them from marriage, living somewhere, etc. LGBT is also not a protected-class as identified by the ADA either, so in my opinion reasonable accommodation does not apply.
The 'bullying' tactics are exactly that - Trump can't give a speech because the Bernie voters will burn down the city. Well, that completely infringes on the rights of Trump and any of his followers. NC can't pass a law that protects 96% of their population's right to privacy because PayPal and Apple might not put their next office there. Really?
Has anyone ever thought that the practice of allowing cross-dressers in high school to do whatever they want might not be taken advantage of by young pranksters that are simply not a cross-dresser or transgender? When I was a kid, I might have put on a dress to use the girl's locker room for a couple of days. Particularly in college in the fall when no one knows who is supposed to be there. The easiest answer is, use the one that matches your plumbing. Case solved. That's all they did.
Also, if you sell on eBay, don't make more than $500 using Paypal.
That's all the earnings Paypal gives you back on an annual basis. Guess they invest the rest.
Such was my Paypal experience back during Year 2005.
Back then I learned eBay has crappy customer service also. I've long moved on from both.
We normally (as Objectivists) define the term "boundaries" as protection against force and fraud.
Personally, I view this push to change gender norms and the promotion of "feelings" as a tool of cognition to be very disturbing.
This isn't an argument of "ignorance vs. enlightenment". Rather it is an argument about the primacy of reason and reality vs. the primacy of feelings.
Just in case no one here has noticed, the Left uses a lot of false guilt and shame to manipulate to get their way.
Wait... what?
I know...the very thought is an anathema to most "government organizations" (an oxymoron to be sure).
If #2 is the problem, a self sealing baggy and toilet tissue can be carried if needed.
If, on the other hand, the person in question has gone through the pain of surgery and hormonal replacement, then they should be allowed to go to whichever facility they have been re-sexed for. They have paid the price of admission.
property owners can set the policy on their own
private property. As to publicly-owned buildings
(courhouses, etc.) the men should stick with the
men and the women should stick with the women. Maybe some people are born into the
wrong sex and need a sex change operation. I
don't know. But the rule in regard to that should
be that, until you get such an operation, you
stick with the sex you were born into, and whose
genital equipment you have on your body, re-
gardless of your psychological feelings about it.
Hopefully some place with a good record on LGBT rights, a strong software/tech eco-system, but lower costs than the San Fran / San Jose area.
The original statute passed by the Charlotte city council mandated that all businesses in Charlotte subordinate their patrons' and employees' rights to privacy in restrooms to those of a few. Those few claim that their right to gender self-identification entitles them to ignore the rights to privacy of everyone else. That's just wrong any way you slice it. That's the tyranny of the minority trampling over the right of the individual to own themselves (privacy is derived from the right to own one's self).
But who cares about them? Just 1%…
(sarcasm)
(I bumped you back up to Minus One.)
Me gonna eats lots of beans and cabbage.
Me gonna put on dress and go into Paypal ladies room.
Me gonna sing in a stall songs about the joy of flatulence.
Then me come out still singing and farting, now dancing, tearing off sheets of toilet paper and tossing sheets high into the air.
That tearing off sheets bit is to add a feminine touch to me repertoire.