• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    Move sparks praise but chain says hotel independently operated and cancellations ‘not reflective of Hilton values’

    I thought official press statements were supposed to cast the brand in a good light.

    “Hilton’s position is clear: Our properties are open to everyone and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.”

    Words just don’t mean anything anymore, do they?

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      We do not tolerate any form of discrimination apparently means We provide hospitality to the worst perpetrators of discrimination

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        It means “We won’t discriminate between people who give us money. Whether they kill each other afterword is none of our concern.”

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          That is what they mean by it, but the fact they chose to express it as “not tolerating discrimination” as opposed to “not discriminating” or “not engaging in discrimination” really highlights that they are engaging in the social contract of tolerance with entities that are explicitly breaking said contract. This kind of weak willed “inclusion” for the sake of virtue signalling/profit is part of what makes fascists think that the paradox of tolerance is some killer argument against empathy

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      “We want everyone to know that we value profit so much over human life that we’d literally gleefully house the Gestapo if we could make a penny out of it.” - Hilton Hotels

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        Psst, Hilton: it’s ok to discriminate against fascist

        Might want to look up Conrad Hilton’s political beliefs. Dude was blue blooded.

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            His family inherited his ideology more or less as a condition of inheriting the fortune. The Hilton Global Foundation is a hot-house of arch-conservative progeny.

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      23 hours ago

      yeah I don’t get how they thought that statement looks good for them

      in any case, I’ll start booking my business trips at a different hotel

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      But in a good light to who?

      Us, the crowd that ended up finding the fediverse? No.

      They are cozying up to another hotel owner.