Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights

HughPickens.com (3830033) writes "David Knowles reports at Bloomberg that former Hewlett-Packard CEO and potential 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina called out Apple CEO Tim Cook as a hypocrite for criticizing Indiana and Arkansas over their Religious Freedom Restoration Acts while at the same time doing business in countries where gay rights are non-existent. "When Tim Cook is upset about all the places that he does business because of the way they treat gays and women, he needs to withdraw from 90% of the markets that he's in, including China and Saudi Arabia," Fiorina said. "But I don't hear him being upset about that."

In similar criticism of Hillary Clinton on the Fox News program Hannity, Fiorina argued that Clinton's advocacy on behalf of women was tarnished by donations made to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments where women's rights are not on par with those in America. ""I must say as a woman, I find it offensive that Hillary Clinton travels the Silicon Valley, a place where I worked for a long time, and lectures Silicon Valley companies on women's rights in technology, and yet sees nothing wrong with taking money from the Algerian government, which really denies women the most basic human rights. This is called, Sean, hypocrisy." While Hillary Clinton hasn't directly addressed Fiorina's criticisms, her husband has. "You've got to decide, when you do this work, whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country," former president Bill Clinton said in March. "And I believe we have done a lot more good than harm. And I believe this is a good thing.""

Comments

Re:Saudi Arabia, etc.

[Anonymous Coward]

BS.

Watch the news lately?? Indiana has proven to be just as homophobic as Saudi Arabia.

Re:Saudi Arabia, etc.

[LordLimecat]

So in other words the prior comment about there having been specific bigotry in Indiana was fallacious, but you're hopeful that in time they will do something that will reinforce your world view.

Got it.

Re: Saudi Arabia, etc.

[gstoddart]

No, Im asking why there is a double standard whereby you can "ethically" refuse to patronize a business whose beliefs you disagree with, but they cannot ethically refuse to service you.

Then, quite honestly, you're an idiot.

Name me ONE other context in which a business owner can refuse to serve someone. The reality is there simply aren't any. There is no equivalent for of saying "we don't serve your kind here" which is legal. None. Nanda. Zip.

You're insisting that you have the right to force other people to violate their beliefs to fit your whims.

No, I'm saying that the rules under which you can legally run a business say there is no mechanism for them to say they are unwilling to serve someone, and if those people can't deal with it they shouldn't be running businesses.

You can't refuse to serve someone who is black, or Chinese, or because of their religion, or any other damned reason. It simply doesn't exist as a legal right.

If your puny little religious mind thinks you deserve to be able to refuse service, then you should be 100% OK with someone being able to say "we don't serve Christians". If not, you're completely full of shit.

If you think your religion gives you a special place in law, you're just a hypocritical asshole. We don't want Sharia law any more than we want Christian law.

Go stone your own damned selves and leave the rest of us out of this. Giving additional rights to religious people just because of their religion is exceptionalism and bullshit.

Operating a business isn't a right. And having the legal ability to refuse to people when you run a business sure as fuck isn't a right. So if your religion is incompatible with running a business which serves the public ... that's your fucking problem.