Sorry Mitch, good American companies have been defending civil rights for decades

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://cyberdisobedience.substack.com/p/georgia-jim-crow-companies-voting

A growing number of American companies and organizations have publicly denounced the state of Georgia for adopting a new Jim Crow -style voter suppression law intended to take the right to vote away from Democratic voters, and Black Americans in particular.

The biggest splash this week came when Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star game from Atlanta and moved it to Denver, as a result of Georgia’s new law.

Georgia is one of several dozen states in which Republican politicians, unhappy with Trump’s 2020 election loss, are attempting to make voting more difficult for Democrats.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell angrily warned companies this week to “stay out of politics,” while media commentators portrayed corporate support for civil rights as a “new phase” of the “bitterly divided politics” between Republicans and Democrats.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. They're people when it comes to donations, but corporations when it comes to opinions.