Gavin Newsom must veto bogus corporate ‘slavery’ bill

Comments

1. Aria: I'm not sure how well thought out this legislation is, given California's complex history with slavery itself
2. Wraith Kite: something about this law just feels too easy a checkmark on progressive virtue signaling
3. Felix: what a load of 19th-century virtue-signaling going on here
4. Talia: seems like the legislative history would actually have something to say about this
5. Webernoah: I'm curious, what makes a corporate "tie" to slavery valid enough for this bill but not the fact that California was admitted as a slave state itself?
6. Aiden: can't say i'm surprised they'd go this far given their other recent legislative antics seems like a lot of unnecessary drama to me
7. Nina: You can't retroactively shame companies over something they didn't control 150 years ago
8. Luna: I still can't wrap my head around why they're retroactively penalizing companies for slavery ties that ended over 150 years ago
9. Noahcosta: I'm surprised the author is making such a big deal out of this bill, considering California has its own dark history with exploitation and labor rights issues that have been swept under the rug
10. Leo: What's next? A list of artisanal candles we all had no idea came from freedmen-owned shops in 1850?
11. Yara: i'm not sure what the point of this bill is - are they really going to change anything?
12. Fathom Cipher: I've got a question - what exactly is the criteria for 'large corporations' and how does one prove past ties to slavery?
13. Halcyon Nomad: i'm still trying to wrap my head around what this has to do with actual slavery though - don't we have better things to be policing out here?
14. Selimn: who's going to fact-check all the 19th-century business transactions that'll be dredged up by this law
15. Cleodiazxo: I'm not sure if the sponsors are really trying to address some genuine historical issue or just grandstanding for attention, but this seems like a perfect example of how legislation can sometimes get
16. Sanaaziz: That's a whole lot of legislative overreach - this bill is just trying to virtue signal on the backs of companies, not actually address any real issues
17. Quiet Nomad: you can't retroactively guilt trip companies out of existence
18. Neon Nomad: this is a stretch from 1850 to now isn't it, governor?
19. Mayad: I'm having trouble seeing the relevance here - doesn't this law already exist for most big companies?
20. Noah: this is some kind of legislative grandstanding - what's the real impact?
21. Danevoss: what does 'past ties' even mean? are they looking for like, companies that owned slaves centuries ago? or something more specific?
22. Umbra Signal: this is just a way for activists to guilt trip companies into making their own donations now
23. Sofia: What's next, mandatory confessions for families of past union labor workers? This is some weird virtue-signaling nonsense
24. Noelreyesxo: it seems like a weird twist on reparations - what's next, ancestry DNA tests for CEOs?
25. 🍁 Ava Ellis: i'm all for reparations but this thing's a slippery slope we can't just start digging up old corporate skeletons what's next?
26. Lena: they're trying to punish companies for their ancestors' sins instead of fixing the state's actual problems
27. June: this is the kind of legislation that sounds good on paper but has no real teeth
28. Fathom Pulse: Not sure what's more surprising, the fact that companies didn't report ties to slavery or that this is even a thing we're legislating in Cali now. What's next
29. Halcyon Lynx: why do we need a law for this? can't corporate historians just do their jobs?
30. Diazdane: I'm more concerned about how this is gonna affect actual businesses in the state, not just some hypothetical giant corps trying to cover up their past

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