In this week's episode of unsubtle social justice corporate intimidation...
The CEOs of 14 top companies, including Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, have sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott urging him not to pass discriminatory legislation.
"As large employers in the state, we are gravely concerned that any such legislation would deeply tarnish Texas' reputation as open and friendly to businesses and families," the CEOs wrote Abbott in a letter dated May 27. "Our ability to attract, recruit and retain top talent, encourage new business relocations, expansions and investment, and maintain our economic competitiveness would all be negatively affected.
In addition to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the letter was signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Wilke, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The leaders of Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Silicon Labs, Celanese Corp., GSD&M, Salesforce and Gearbox Software also signed the letter.
In short, if Texas voters get their way, they'll be punished by Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Dell, HP, Salesforce, IBM and Google.
This isn't a unique event. There have been a number of these social justice CEO threats. The last time around it was Indiana. Now it's Texas.
The left claims to hate the idea of corporate power, but it has no problem throwing it around. And using cretins like Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook to intimidate voters and entire states while unsubtly threatening ordinary people with job losses if they don't knuckle under.
These tactics derive from the red state and blue state split. Break them down and it amounts to California threatening Texans. Texas and all free states ought to stand up to it. And remind Mark Zuckerberg that this can work both ways.