It’s fairly appalling to me that Corporate America seems to have a stronger moral compass than some of our major religious leaders. I’ve never been a fan of either, but corporations are by definition amoral, profit overrules everything institutions. And yet here we have Twitter, Facebook, Paypal, Google, AirBnB all doing the right thing while white evangelical leaders are silent or worse. Who’d have thought taking a stand against Nazis who murder people would cause so much hand-wringing, dithering, and shoe-gazing. I guess being amoral eats into your profits long before it hurts your church attendance, depending on your church. That’s not to say there aren’t major religious leaders who do speak out – they do, and bless them – but it disgusts me that so many do not, when it is presumably their day job.
Source on Twitter and Facebook doing the right thing? I thought they had been mostly complicity in this issue.
You are correct. I swore I’d heard Twitter was shutting down white supremacist accounts (except Trump’s), but I’m not seeing a source now.
Meanwhile, could someone read the rest of this article for me? I got to this line and couldn’t stop irony-induced laugh-vomiting, which makes reading hard:
King said Bannon was “exploiting the racial issue. That can’t be allowed.”