PayPal Nixes 400 Jobs in North Carolina Over Anti-LGBT Law

PayPal announced Tuesday it will not hire more than 400 people in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the state repealed anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people. “The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture,” the company said in a statement. “As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte.”

My Thought: How does this make sense?  The City of Charlotte passed LBGT  a protections law, then the state (driven by rural concerns) passed a law to invalidate the Charlotte law. Now PayPal is going to punish the people of Charlotte who started the issue by passage of an LBGT protection law because their efforts were overridden.

So is the message for other cities in conservative states to not pass LBGT protections so as to keep from being punished?   Of course PayPal doesn’t care one wit for the people of Charlotte, strait or LBGT. They see this as an opportunity to burnish their image.  This whole thing is a sad commentary on how real justice gets run over by PR justice.