The Disgraceful Hypocrisy of 200 Tech Titans

CEO’s Band Together on Abortion

On June 10, 2019 almost two hundred CEOs ran a disgraceful full-page ad in the New York Times (NYT). One would expect CEO’s to push for new tax reforms, infrastructure spending, or improved cyber security, but that is hardly the case. These CEO’s joined together to demonstrate their support for unrestricted abortion using ridiculous language.

The headline read “Don’t Ban Equality” and the subheading was “It’s time for companies to stand up for reproductive health care.” At best both statements are misleading; at worst they are political euphemisms concocted by nincompoops.

The Dishonesty of Charlatans and Hacks

The term “reproductive health care” is particularly disgraceful because it implies the nobility of attending to the health care needs of expectant mothers and the unborn. The reality for the unborn baby is that none of the promised benefits are realized, only death. Such dishonesty is best left to charlatans and hacks, not captains of industry responsible for “over 108,000 employees.”

Joining the mob made more business sense…

The self righteous CEO’s go on to claim that any restrictions on abortion “threatens the health, independence and economic stability of our employees and customers.” Balderdash, if the topic were not so grave that statement would be laughable hyperbole. Like so much of the political blather we hear each day, this nonsense insults our intelligence.

The only “employees” being threatened are about two decades away from service and lying vulnerable in the womb. If I worked for one of these soulless prevaricators, I’d start exploring other options. But I must admit, I’m curious about their thought processes and motivations. While this ad is well coordinated, it’s not typical C-Suite behavior.

So What Gives?

Obviously these CEO’s feel protected. There’s safety in numbers and they are, after all, the capo dei capi (boss of bosses) of their respective fiefdoms. They also know that the “abortion debate” is not really a debate. Both sides have staked their claim and neither side is moving any spikes or, for that matter, listening to the other side. As a result, converts are as rare as a Kardashian at an SAT exam.

There’s another angle at play in this storyline. In Tucker Carlson’s book, Ship of Fools, he posits that businesses have figured out they can commit egregious acts and not suffer any adverse consequences; but only as long as they’re in lockstep with the media backed liberal/progressive agenda. Tucker is onto something here and the evidence is compelling.

Disgraceful Tech Titans: The Worst Offenders

These tech barons, billionaires all, avoid criticism because they publicly and repeatedly worship before the golden calf of liberal progressivism.

• Uber pays many of its employees, excuse me, “contractors,” less than minimum wage. They are not, however, vilified because as Carlson quips, “For the price of installing transgender bathrooms they buy a pass…Bowing to the diversity agenda is a lot cheaper than raising wages.”
• Apple builds iPhones in brutal Foxconn factories where working conditions and $2.00 an hour pay compelled some employees to commit suicide. Preferred methods include hanging, poison or even leaping off the building. Yet publicly Apple remains a liberal and media darling. Why? Could it be because their CEO, Tim Cook, is openly gay and their collective liberalism is beyond dispute?
• Google sells our private information to advertisers. Facebook does this as well, but because both companies promote the liberal agenda and are safely ensconced in the Democrat Party camp, no one seems to care. Google staffers had at least 427 meetings at the White House over course of Obama presidency – averaging more than one a week. How cozy.
• Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, bulldozes traditional businesses and fights unionization at every turn. Bezos pushes workers so hard that some have reported skipping bathroom breaks and instead started urinating in plastic bottles. That’s ok, though, because Jeff is a loyal Democrat and owns a steadfastly liberal newspaper, the Washington Post.
• Jack Dorsey, Square and Twitter CEO signed the NYT ad letter. Jack is also an avowed liberal in good standing. As such, when Twitter enforces foreign laws, including openly anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ sharia laws, mainstream media outlets gives him a pass.

The near-200 CEO’s who sponsored the NYT ad took notice and, seeing the opportunity, said, “Sign me up.” They made a disgraceful business calculation, deciding that joining the mob made more business sense than resisting the mob. At least that’s my view.