NBA moving All-Star Game out of Charlotte, cites LGBT law

[Tennis]

NBA is moving the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of its objections to a North Carolina law that limits anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people.

The league had expressed its opposition to the law known as HB2 since it was enacted in March, and its decision Thursday came less than a month after state legislators revisited the law and chose to leave it largely unchanged.

"While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2," the league said in a statement.


There was no appetite among Republican lawmakers to change the provision requiring transgender people to use restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates in many public buildings — a measure at the heart of two legal challenges in federal court.

The law passed in a March special session also excludes sexual orientation and gender identity from antidiscrimination protections related to the workplace, hotels and restaurants; and overrules local antidiscrimination ordinances. Republican leaders have said the law was passed in response to a Charlotte ordinance that would have allowed transgender people to use restrooms consistent with their gender identity.

The fate of the state law is likely to be decided in federal courts where dueling lawsuits are being heard, with a judge saying he wants to start trial in four of the five cases by early November. He's also set an August 1 hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the law's bathroom access provision.

Charlotte officials have said they expected the event to have an economic impact of around $100 million, based on data from recent All-Star games in the comparable New Orleans and Orlando markets. The game could rival the $164 million economic impact of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the largest financial bump of any event for the city.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...721-story.html

Do you agree with this?
Likely over 100 million dollars in lost revenue for Charlotte because of this law.

[Kanariya]

They deserve the monetary losses for denying people of their rights, and voting for this clown in the first place. Major props for the NBA.

[Zyster]

People mad when someone with a lot of money influences laws doing exactly what they despise. Nothing new here. Same hypocritical people on the left trying to do things they despise.

[Clone]

I am okay with this.

[Themius]

They deserve the monetary losses for denying people of their rights, and voting for this clown in the first place. Major props for the NBA.

What's fucked up is that in frebruary charlotte passed anti discrimination laws protecting LGBT and in march the state decided "no only we can say!" and overrode it.

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People mad when someone with a lot of money influences laws doing exactly what they despise. Nothing new here. Same hypocritical people on the left trying to do things they despise.

Yeah how dare those people on the left fight against jim crow era type laws, how dare they fight against people trying to deny equal rights and protections, shame on them right?

[Zyster]

What's fucked up is that in frebruary charlotte passed anti discrimination laws protecting LGBT and in march the state decided "no only we can say!" and overrode it.

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Yeah how dare those people on the left fight against jim crow era type laws, how dare they fight against people trying to deny equal rights and protections, shame on them right?

So you don't disagree to being a hypocrite? Glad you understand.

[Themius]

So you don't disagree to being a hypocrite? Glad you understand.

Hypocrite? Hmm hypocrite about what? I'm a hypocrite if I don't support segregation and jim crow laws?

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins

[Zyster]

Hypocrite? Hmm hypocrite about what? I'm a hypocrite if I don't support segregation and jim crow laws?

You literally just commented on what was pointed out to be hypocritical. Do you just not know the definitions of words being used in any of these threads? Would you like me to assist you and quote it? I would be more than glad to if you would like.

[Kaleredar]

People mad when someone with a lot of money influences laws doing exactly what they despise. Nothing new here. Same hypocritical people on the left trying to do things they despise.

"people are mad about things they don't like"

Yeah, that's not new. And not being mad about some things, and mad about others, doesn't make you a hypocrite. The issue is "things people are mad about," and whether that's right or not.


Denying people of rights is less and less on the "it's okay to do that" scale these days. The NBA agrees that no, it is not okay.

[Zyster]

"people are mad about things they don't like"

Yeah, that's not new. The issue is "things people are mad about," and whether that's right or not.


Denying people of rights is less and less on the "it's okay to do that" scale these days.

So you aren't disagreeing that people with a lot of money are trying to control government?

[twiddler]

Their company, their rules.

[Spectral]

The recent obsession with trans people is just about the most virtue signally of all virtue signals ever. This impacts almost nobody in any meaningful way, yet here we are, getting super wound up about it.

[obao98]

So you aren't disagreeing that people with a lot of money are trying to control government?

Its useless. Leftists are immune to logic.

[Felya]

So you aren't disagreeing that people with a lot of money are trying to control government?

Are you comparing lobbying to this? You have got to be kidding...

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Its useless. Leftists are immune to logic.

Are you saying people on the right, think that a store moving into their area, is the same as someone giving them a bunch of money? I'm sorry, but calling 'rightist' morons, isn't permitted here... Cut it out..

[Dug]

The recent obsession with trans people is just about the most virtue signally of all virtue signals ever. This impacts almost nobody in any meaningful way, yet here we are, getting super wound up about it.

So people can't be upset over an issue you personally don't care about?

[oxymoronic]

The recent obsession with trans people is just about the most virtue signally of all virtue signals ever. This impacts almost nobody in any meaningful way, yet here we are, getting super wound up about it.

but the 0.0001% population that is transgender and actually wants to use a restroom they know they should not be. this is super silly goes back to my original argument against groups like this. what do they fight for once everything is equal? yet they still exist, still fight, still get paid.

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So people can't be upset over an issue you personally don't care about?

he said it affects hardly anybody, which is true.

[Dug]

he said it affects hardly anybody, which is true.

And? I don't see the big deal with helping everybody to the best of our abilities. It doesn't matter if they're 0.000001% of the population, if it's a problem that can be easily solved why not do it?

[Felya]

but the 0.0001% population that is transgender and actually wants to use a restroom they know they should not be. this is super silly goes back to my original argument against groups like this. what do they fight for once everything is equal? yet they still exist, still fight, still get paid.

If this is the case, why was the law put in place? If it impacts so few people, why have this law?

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he said it affects hardly anybody, which is true.

Can you explain the logic that makes you believe that having this law is necessary? It sounds like you are making arguments that this law is pointless, while defending it.

Edit: you got me... just read your name... arguing to keep a law you claim is not necessary... Close enouph to an oxymoron... Kudos! Gonna kick my self over that one for a bit...

[Viking]

Big money and big business in politics are bad, unless they support the left.

It's not ok when a baker or florist want to follow their conscience in businesses they own, but it's ok when cucks like Bruce Springsteen and now the NBA do so.

The hypocrisy and double standards the left hurl around like shit flinging monkeys is beyond being a joke at this point. It's just sad.

[Spectral]

So people can't be upset over an issue you personally don't care about?

I believe that the vast majority of people that are "upset" are feigning their level of upset because it's socially popular in their circles.