Posted on 07/09/2012 5:38:36 AM PDT by scottjewell
[Addendum to July 8 piece; emphasis on government suasion by Google]"One of the first target countries is likely to be Singapore, which has draconian anti-homosexuality laws. Here, Google has for the second year running sponsored Pink Dot, an LGBT event exected to attract over 10,000 people."
Google has launched a global campaign aimed at persuading governments to decriminalise homosexuality and eliminate homophobia.
Its Legalize Love campaign is being announced at a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) conference in London today.
"In all of our 60 offices around the world, we are committed to cultivating a work environment where Googlers can be themselves and thrive," the company explains.
"We also want our employees to have the same inclusive experience outside of the office, as they do at work, and for LGBT communities to be safe and to be accepted wherever they are."
One of the first target countries is likely to be Singapore, which has draconian anti-homosexuality laws. Here, Google has for the second year running sponsored Pink Dot, an LGBT event exected to attract over 10,000 people.
"We are excited by the growing number of companies that are ‘coming out’ and supporting a social movement like Pink Dot," says Pink Dot spokesperson Paerin Choa.
"We are thankful that our corporate contributors this year recognise the value of inclusiveness and diversity, regardless of sexual orientation, and hope that more companies will contribute positively towards cultivating an inclusive work environment for their LGBT employees."
More important, though, will be the pressure that Google can bring to bear on repressive governments, particularly as it recruits other multinationals to the campaign. Singapore, in particular, is aiming to be a global financial center, and needs these companies on its side.
As Harry Gaskell Ernst & Young reportedly told the conference: "If you are trying to change something - governments can exert diplomatic power, NGOs can martial facts and arguments - but corporations martial economic power. That is something even the most passive of countries will listen to."
It was the “Out & Equal” campaign beginning in about 2003 which waged a massive and hugely successful effort to sign companies and corporations on to its “Human Rights” platform
——I imagine for PR purposes the companies fell like Dominoes to the agenda, beginning with the giants Coca Cola and Best Buy, and on from there.
In this sense, Google is now at the tail end of something which began a decade ago.
Peter LeBarbara has been railing against the subterfuge of this campaign since its inception.
Well, since P/Ms are an insignificant number of the population, shouldn't that work the other way too?
It looks like in that regard someone could easily take those already crunched numbers and create a ratings system and website showing those “still have a lot of work to do” companies as having an "All American Pro-family" positive rating.
Right, you hit the nail on the head here: It only needs someone to get the ball rolling, and the entire thing could be reversed. But no one who has the power seems to feel the need to do it.
an outfit like google can be a regime’s most valuable tool.
Sort of like that time when...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
and
http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm
But of course that could never happen again.
Today, the SS would be wearing purple and pink on Thursdays - and be no less the degenerate cowards their predecessors were.
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