Hyatt Hotels follows the lead of the Southern
Poverty Law Center to silence speech they don’t like, by Ann Corcoran,
10/2/18.
Hyatt Hotels has announced they will no longer rent conference space to
what they call “hate groups.”
They
obviously were pressured by a Muslim
advocacy group , surely backed by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate group” list.
The
expanding efforts to silence speech, such as on social media today and where
venues (like Hyatt Hotels) refuse to allow people to gather to discuss pressing
issues of the day, is the sort of thing the founding fathers feared.
They
knew that venting ones views verbally/openly and non-violently in public and often
through gatherings of like-minded people was an important pressure release
valve of sorts.
When
people are driven to meet secretly and underground is when real rebellion is
fomented.
Originally
from the LA
Times, but here at
the Guam Daily:
Hyatt
won’t rent to hate groups
Hyatt Hotels Corp., one of the nation’s largest hotel companies,
announced it will no longer host hate groups at its nearly 800 properties, a
move that was praised by a Muslim advocacy group.
Mark
Hoplamazian, CEO of the hotel company, released a memo to employees Thursday,
explaining the new anti-hate policy for Hyatt Hotels Corp.
Scott Simpson, public advocacy director
of Muslim Advocates. Learn more about him here:
https://www.muslimadvocates.org/about/staff-2/
The
hotel company declined to release the memo Friday but instead issued a
statement saying: “Hyatt will no longer allow hate groups, those who primarily
seek to disparage or demean a specific group of people, to host meetings or
events at our hotels.”
Muslim Advocates, an Oakland-based civil rights advocacy group that has
been pressing hotel companies to take similar steps against hate groups, called
the decision a victory.
“Hyatt’s
announcement is a welcome one for consumers who want their hotels to be safe
spaces to relax and be themselves free from hostility and discrimination,” said
Scott Simpson, public advocacy director for Muslim Advocates.
The Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Virginia hosted a group in
September called ACT for America, which describes itself as an organization
dedicated to educating and training Americans to “help prevent criminal
activity and terrorism.”
But Muslim Advocates accuses ACT for America of being a “white
supremacist-aligned anti-Muslim hate group.” Muslim Advocates has pressed Hyatt
and other hotel companies to refuse to rent to ACT for America.
It was not clear from Hyatt’s statement how the hotel company planned
to determine which groups promote hate, but it added: “This is a complex and emotional issue, but
what we’ve concluded is that we need to commit to a higher level of vetting
such that groups using hate speech, primarily seeking to disparage or demean a
particular group, are not welcome in our hotels.”
Hint
from the story about who might be doing the vetting for Hyatt Hotels….ACT for
America could not be reached for comment but in a news release issued Friday in
response to similar
accusations by the Southern Poverty Law Center….More here.
Yesterday
when I wrote about Chobani Yogurt CEO,
Turkish immigrant Hamdi
Ulukaya, putting together many global corporations who support and advocate for
moving the third world to the first world, I didn’t see Hyatt Hotels on his
list yet, but I bet it will soon be there.
By
the way, the so-called hospitality industry, like the meatpacking industry, is
one of the leading advocates for more cheap LEGAL refugee labor.
Others working with Ulukaya (Chobani Yogurt) you should take note of are: airbnb, Hilton
Hotels, Starbucks, Twitter, Facebook, UPS, and TripAdvisor to name a few.
I
tell my friends not to buy Chobani Yogurt, and it should be pretty easy to find
other hotels that aren’t working to silence speech. What the heck there are
lots of coffee shops, but getting off of Facebook and Twitter will be hard and
that is something I am seriously considering. What do you think?
LOL!
The way things are going we might be reaching each other via snail mail soon!
(My PO Box is in the left-hand side bar). P.S. This post is filed in my ‘Stealth Jihad’ category.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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