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Submitted by J.A. Jensen (not verified) on August 29, 2012 - 11:36am.
The message of the beginning of this post, and of this campaign more broadly - viz., that we should support companies that have left ALEC – is deeply problematic. The reasoning seems to be, briefly, that membership in ALEC is the principal criterion of corporate malfeasance, and that corporations that abandon membership in and association with ALEC and its by-now uncontroversially malignant politics have done something positively “good”. Never mind that leaving a destructive organization that should never have been joined in the first instance, by other organizations that are themselves often deeply destructive, is hardly cause for celebrating let alone supporting the latter. “Better isn’t good if worse was terrible”.
The message of the beginning
The message of the beginning of this post, and of this campaign more broadly - viz., that we should support companies that have left ALEC – is deeply problematic. The reasoning seems to be, briefly, that membership in ALEC is the principal criterion of corporate malfeasance, and that corporations that abandon membership in and association with ALEC and its by-now uncontroversially malignant politics have done something positively “good”. Never mind that leaving a destructive organization that should never have been joined in the first instance, by other organizations that are themselves often deeply destructive, is hardly cause for celebrating let alone supporting the latter. “Better isn’t good if worse was terrible”.