After a few days of one of its franchisees’ recalcitrance to repent over denying services to ICE agents at one of its Hampton Inns in Lakeview, Minn., Hilton Worldwide stripped it of its branding. Alpha News snapped a photo of a crane removing the hotel’s sign on Tuesday morning, as you can see above.
Bravo to Hilton. That’s how a responsible corporation should respond when law enforcement is mistreated and disrespected for trying to do its job.
It stands in stark contrast to what a company should not do following calls to “defund the police” or when rioters destroy cities over phony police racism allegations — for example, virtue-signaling corporate executives should not:
- Demonize law enforcement over “victims of systemic oppression and violence” while ignoring human rights abuses in China (McDonald’s).
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Jeff Bezos/PHOTO: dsearls (CC)
- Disagree with a customer who states “all lives matter” after your company bloviates in support of corrupt, Marxist Black Lives Matter, stating your “stance won’t change,” then have to remove BLM from your nonprofit support program after the organization’s leaders are exposed for their grifting (Jeff Bezos, Amazon).
- Donate a half-million dollars to BLM then backtrack — scrubbing all references to the organization from your website — after its corruption is exposed and the organization expresses its support for Hamas following its Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel (Coca-Cola)
- Think of yourself as the “Thomas Jefferson” of corporate wokeism, then admitting your “white guilt” from the “limits of my own life experience,” and how he listened to “those who have faced systemic injustice since the day they were born” following the disgraceful riots after George Floyd‘s death. (former Chair/CEO Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson)
- Fund organizations run by race grifters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and impose Critical Race Theory training on your employees following the Floyd-related riots, while stating your company “is fiercely committed to diversity and inclusion across all spectrums” — then eliminate your DEI policies after they are shown to be discriminatory and unpopular, and take down your virtue-signaling post-Floyd message from your website. (former Chair/CEO Hans Vestberg, Verizon)
We could cite numerous other examples of corporate blunders that broad-brushed law enforcement with spurious allegations, which blew up in their collective faces.
And frankly, Hilton’s post-Floyd rhetoric spouted pro-DEI themes as well. But the company quickly did the right thing in Lakeville, despite loud and vehement expressions of opposition against ICE. Of course, social media in the X-verse (formerly Twitterverse) applied equal pressure on the hotel giant to address the situation in Minnesota. It appears the company’s conscience has been properly recalibrated, at least in this instance.
