Liberals have decided that Georgia must be punished for its new voting law that will expand voter access. China, after unleashing a global pandemic, carrying out a genocide, and rendering Hong Kong voters’ voices meaningless? They don’t really seem to care.
President Joe Biden has led the way on this, calling for Major League Baseball to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia over the state’s new voting law, whose contents he cannot stop lying about. Apparently, expanding voting opportunities in Georgia is boycott-worthy, but China’s genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is not such a big deal. China hosts the 2022 Winter Olympics, and Biden remains unable even to threaten a boycott over human rights.
When this hypocrisy was brought up to press secretary Jen Psaki, she decided to insult the reporter rather than answer the question.
.@RealClearNews‘s @PhilipWegmann asks Jen Psaki if the Biden White House is so adamant about having MLB move its All-Star Game from Georgia because of the voting law, why aren’t they calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing?!
Psaki did NOT like this question. pic.twitter.com/1GbTxRsmhC
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 2, 2021
Biden isn’t the only one who wants to be tougher on a U.S. state for bogus political reasons than on China for an actual genocide.
Actor Mark Hamill, who once tried to bully his son’s girlfriend into having an abortion, wants there to be no more Hollywood movies filmed in Georgia. He happily visited China in 2017 to promote the train wreck that was Star Wars: The Last Jedi as part of Disney’s courting of the Chinese market. Apple CEO Tim Cook was quick to condemn Georgia’s new law, even as his company has repeatedly been tied to Uyghur slave labor and even as he has lobbied to water down legislation that would address forced labor in China.
The CEOs of Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines have also condemned Georgia. Coca-Cola has also lobbied against legislation to stop Uyghur forced labor, and Delta continues to bill itself as the “most Chinese-friendly U.S. airline.”
The head of the Major League Baseball Players Association has suggested players may push the league to move the All-Star Game out of Georgia, while the league has continually sought to boost its standing in the Chinese market through developmental centers and leagues.
This is all predictable because it is all the result of unmitigated greed.
There’s money to be made in the Chinese market for Apple, Coca-Cola, Delta, and MLB. Same for conscience-free Hollywood celebrities such as Hamill. Biden and the Democratic Party, however, have been all too willing to let China off the hook for its human rights abuses and handling of the pandemic. It’s easier to attack Republicans than it is to confront the world’s worst human rights abusers. But then, Biden has been fluffing up these little Hitlers for years. Why stop now?
There is no excuse for this. Even the Washington Post said in its fact-check of Biden that Georgia’s law will expand voting opportunities. Demanding that a U.S. state be punished while dismissing, excusing, or pandering to China is placing partisan politics above human rights — done by some of the most powerful and influential people and corporations in the United States.
