EDITORIAL
Corporate cowards kowtow to China
by Washington Examiner | October 08, 2019 09:36 PM
Corporations are supposedly entering a new phase of caring about social justice. If the executives do care about what's right and wrong in this world, then Hong Kong is currently on your mind.
The people of that small enclave, historically prosperous and free under a British common law system similar to our own, have taken to the streets in recent weeks. Badly outnumbered, they are now desperately resisting the broad-daylight theft of their civil liberties by a Communist government.
China's Communist dictatorship, the wanton brutality and misrule of which have produced a domestic body count exceeding those of the Hitler and Stalin regimes combined, respects neither its own written domestic laws nor its promises to other nations. But that regime, backed by the world's largest standing army, is just around the corner from Hong Kong. China now threatens Hongkongers' free speech rights, their access to accurate information, their ability to communicate with the outside world, and their rights as criminal defendants, should they ever fall afoul of fickle Communist Party bureaucrats.
In Hong Kong, the forces of right and wrong, of democracy, freedom, and individual rights versus murderous state oppression, are as clearly arrayed and cleanly defined as one could hope. There is certainly none of the ambiguity or gray-shading that everywhere suffuses the safe confines of America's domestic politics.
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And this is exactly how consumers should approach companies that sacrifice American values while hypocritically pretending to the philosophically dubious ideal of corporate social responsibility.
Consumers have every right to demand contrition and change from the institutions that are increasingly kowtowing to the butchers of Beijing. If Hollywood, the media, the NBA, ESPN, or anyone else wants to lay up treasure in mainland China, you should probably reconsider where your entertainment dollars go.
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