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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 04:23 PM Jan 2018

Indiana kisses new Amazon HQ goodbye in order to avoid protecting LGBT people from hate

Source: LGBTQ Nation



By Bil Browning · Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Despite overwhelming support for a proposed hate crimes law, Indiana Republicans have squashed the idea to appease their religious right supporters. Indiana is one of only five states without a hate crimes law.

While Indianapolis was named one of twenty finalists for Amazon’s “HQ2” offices that would bring thousands of high paying jobs to the area, the Fortune 500 company was crystal clear that it would choose a location that values diversity and equality. Experts had already expressed reservations that Indiana would land the prime development and today’s decision only adds another nail to the coffin.

The state is still reeling from former Governor Mike Pence’s disastrous attempt to legalize discrimination against LGBT people, but now state Republicans have completely surrendered to the demands of a small minority that demands complete obedience. Pence infamously went on national television to defend the law he signed while surrounded by the state’s most vociferously anti-LGBT activists and refused to say whether he thought LGBT people should be discriminated against.

“Republicans reinforced just how out-of-touch they are with the majority of Hoosiers, blocking a policy nearly two-thirds of Hoosiers support and 45 other states have enacted,” Indiana Democratic Party Chairman John Zody said in an emailed statement.

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/01/indiana-kisses-new-amazon-hq-goodbye-order-avoid-protecting-lgbt-people-hate

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Indiana kisses new Amazon HQ goodbye in order to avoid protecting LGBT people from hate (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP
I love the fact that Indiana is so flat. Aristus Jan 2018 #1
Huh...hating people can cost money & state employment increases. irisblue Jan 2018 #2
Born and raised there... charliea Jan 2018 #7
Found an F-Scale test and took it Bettie Jan 2018 #9
Good. Those jobs should go to states that welcome diversity & want jobs for all residents. nt Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #3
Hate is more important than jobs, to some idiots IronLionZion Jan 2018 #4
But, but, but Republican Indiana Jesus is very happy with them! KY_EnviroGuy Jan 2018 #8
IF AMAZON DOESN'T MOVE THERE NYETNYET Jan 2018 #5
That should leave Texas out too LeftInTX Jan 2018 #6
I think it is down to three metro areas: Boston; DC; and NYC. LonePirate Jan 2018 #10
Jeff Bezos already bought a mansion in the DC area FakeNoose Jan 2018 #14
There are no longer any rewrite reporters, editors, or proofreaders. trof Jan 2018 #11
Help keep Indiana safeinOhio Jan 2018 #12
Indiana, the South's Upper Peninsula Kristofer Bry Jan 2018 #13
I heard they're calling it Pence-istan now FakeNoose Jan 2018 #15
Mike Pence OldHippieChick Jan 2018 #16
Yeah I live here.... Adrahil Jan 2018 #17
GOOD JI7 Jan 2018 #18

Aristus

(66,082 posts)
1. I love the fact that Indiana is so flat.
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 04:25 PM
Jan 2018

That makes driving through it as fast as legally permissible, and not spending any money there, very easy.

irisblue

(32,828 posts)
2. Huh...hating people can cost money & state employment increases.
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 04:28 PM
Jan 2018

Suffer you fools who let the republicans do this.
And I am sympathetic to DUers who live there. I did 84-90. Great state parks.

charliea

(258 posts)
7. Born and raised there...
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 05:00 PM
Jan 2018

I've long since emigrated but I still remember my college anthropology class (go Boilermakers!) discussing the F-scale test. Designed to be an indicator of Fascistic tendencies. It made an impression because the prof explained the test designer's goal was to compare people to Hitler's (and Franco's) high command, via a personality test. The prof said that it had once been given to the members of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the members tested more fascist than the German high command.

Don't have a link and don't know if that's actually true, but I grew up there. It's got real truthiness.

Stuff like that (and Dan 'potatoe' Quayle) are why I tell people these days that Indiana is a great place to be from...

Yeah the parks were great when I was a kid. So was Senator Birch Bayh, an actual liberal Democratic Senator, too bad his kid (Evan) devolved in a DINO. Kinda like Mitt Romney devolved from his father's Rockefeller Republican stance to whatever he is now.


#RESIST

Bettie

(15,997 posts)
9. Found an F-Scale test and took it
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 05:26 PM
Jan 2018

I got a 13%...I'm guessing most modern Republicans would have very high scores indeed.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
8. But, but, but Republican Indiana Jesus is very happy with them!
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 05:01 PM
Jan 2018

He will feed, clothe and house them, don't ya know?

...................

NYETNYET

(212 posts)
5. IF AMAZON DOESN'T MOVE THERE
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 04:50 PM
Jan 2018

WHERE IS THE MONEY PENCE PROMISED CARRIER TO COVER CLOSING PLANTS GOING TO COME FROM? IT COSTS MONEY TO MOVE TO MEXICO.

LeftInTX

(24,546 posts)
6. That should leave Texas out too
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 04:59 PM
Jan 2018

Austin and Dallas made the cut.

Texas tried to pass a bathroom bill, but the only reason it failed was because our Speaker of the House would not bring it to a vote. The Speaker of the House is not seeking re-election and has been censured by the Republican Party for not bringing the bathroom bill to a vote.

We also passed SB4, which is an anti-immigration bill.

LonePirate

(13,386 posts)
10. I think it is down to three metro areas: Boston; DC; and NYC.
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 05:30 PM
Jan 2018

Austin or Dallas would contend only if Bezos fears a sea level rise from climate change would make an east coast city untenable.

FakeNoose

(32,337 posts)
14. Jeff Bezos already bought a mansion in the DC area
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 07:27 PM
Jan 2018

AND he owns the Washington Post. Does that tell you anything?
He's young enough to run for President in 7 or 8 years. Question is whether there's any country left by then.

trof

(54,255 posts)
11. There are no longer any rewrite reporters, editors, or proofreaders.
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 07:08 PM
Jan 2018

Not picking on the OP, just the 'journalist'.
This is one of the worst first lines I've ever read.

"Despite overwhelming support for a proposed hate crimes law, Indiana Republicans have squashed the idea to appease their religious right supporters. Indiana is one of only five states without a hate crimes law."

At first it sounds like they squashed (maybe 'quashed'?) the idea to appease their religious right.
And I thought "well, good!"

How about "Despite overwhelming support for a proposed hate crimes law, Indiana Republicans have quashed the idea IN ORDER to appease their religious right supporters."

jeez

 

Kristofer Bry

(175 posts)
13. Indiana, the South's Upper Peninsula
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 07:25 PM
Jan 2018

Actually, I'm being unfair to the South; the Hoosier State is its own special bubble of darkness!

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
17. Yeah I live here....
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 07:58 PM
Jan 2018

There are blue islands (I live in one), but this place is filled with mouth-breathers.

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