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minus-squareZaktor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up153arrow-down1·4 days ago Move sparks praise but chain says hotel independently operated and cancellations ‘not reflective of Hilton values’ I thought official press statements were supposed to cast the brand in a good light. “Hilton’s position is clear: Our properties are open to everyone and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.” Words just don’t mean anything anymore, do they?
minus-squareSconrad122@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up94·4 days agoWe do not tolerate any form of discrimination apparently means We provide hospitality to the worst perpetrators of discrimination
minus-squaredanc4498@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·4 days agoWe like money no matter how evil the source.
minus-squareHazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·4 days ago“We want everyone to know that we value profit so much over human life that we’d literally gleefully house the Gestapo if we could make a penny out of it.” - Hilton Hotels
minus-squareGuyFawkesV@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoLost a chance to lock in my business for life.
minus-squaretrashcan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 days agoBut in a good light to who? Us, the crowd that ended up finding the fediverse? No. They are cozying up to another hotel owner.
minus-squaresanta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoSo they are cool with nazi conventions and stuff? Yikes.
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoyeah I don’t get how they thought that statement looks good for them in any case, I’ll start booking my business trips at a different hotel
I thought official press statements were supposed to cast the brand in a good light.
Words just don’t mean anything anymore, do they?
We do not tolerate any form of discrimination apparently means We provide hospitality to the worst perpetrators of discrimination
We like money no matter how evil the source.
“We want everyone to know that we value profit so much over human life that we’d literally gleefully house the Gestapo if we could make a penny out of it.” - Hilton Hotels
Lost a chance to lock in my business for life.
But in a good light to who?
Us, the crowd that ended up finding the fediverse? No.
They are cozying up to another hotel owner.
To whom.
I debated it, I really did.
So they are cool with nazi conventions and stuff? Yikes.
Never was
yeah I don’t get how they thought that statement looks good for them
in any case, I’ll start booking my business trips at a different hotel