Exclusive — Sam Brownback Calls on Woke Corporations to Pull Advertising Dollars Out of Beijing Winter Olympics Jordan Dixon-Hamilton11 Dec 2021 Sam Brownback, former U.S. Senator, Kansas Governor, and U.S. Ambassador for international religious freedom, appeared on Breitbart News Saturday and called on woke corporations like Coca-Cola and AirBnb to pull their advertising dollars out of the Beijing Winter Olympics amid China’s numerous human rights violations. Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle opened the show noting that Friday, December 10, was the United Nation’s annual Human Rights Day. He asked the former Ambassador to lay out China’s human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim population. “What they started against the Tibetan Buddhists, they perfected against the Uighur Muslims. and they got a million of them in concentration camps,” (See also: https://www.qnotables.com/post/an-independent-tribunal-ruled-today-that-china-has-committed-genocide-against-the-uyghur-people)
Brownback said. “They have a high tech police state for everybody else. And they’re persecuting them and trying to really drive their faith out.” “They’ve done that, as I say against the Buddhists, they’re doing it now also against house church Christians, destroying the churches locking people up. They go against human rights lawyers, they are at war with faith, all faiths.” Brownback warned that China wants its religious freedom violations replicated by other authoritarian regimes worldwide. “80 percent of the world lives in a religiously restricted, heavily restricted atmosphere. And China’s leading the way on how to do it,” he said. Brownback explained that the Uighur Muslim population in China is under constant surveillance that impacts their day-to-day lives in what he calls a “war on faith.” “If they don’t like what you’re doing, they give you a low social credit score so you can’t travel. You can’t get into the apartment complexes or the schools that you want to get into, can’t name your child Muhammad, you can’t fast during Ramadan. It’s really basically to try to drive the faith out of the people. And that’s why I call it a war on faith.” Brownback is optimistic in this war on faith because “ultimately, a person’s soul will win out.” Boyle then mentioned President Joe Biden’s lackluster “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Winter Olympics and asked Brownback what the United States should do to send a message to the Chinese Communist Party. “What a number of us called for this week was an advertiser’s boycott of the Olympics. Hold the Western companies’ advertising dollars,” he said. “Coca Cola, Airbnb pull your dollars if the Chinese Communist Party won’t announce a date for the closing of these concentration camps, then pull your advertising dollars so that kind of the Chinese Communists are not enriched by the Olympics.” “And then I hope our athletes will be as brave as [Enes] Kanter Freedom is, and will walk in the Olympic Stadium with pictures of people that are being held because they’re religious dissidents or Hong Kong activists.” Brownback suggested that it should be the American athletes who turn the Olympic Games “into an embarrassment for the Chinese Communist Party.” Boyle mentioned the woke chief executives of top companies and asked Brownback if now is the time for the American people to consider a boycott of certain companies. Notably, Boyle called out Coca-Cola for advertising in China despite attempting to punish Georgia for passing election integrity laws. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/11/exclusive-sam-brownback-calls-on-woke-corporations-to-pull-advertising-dollars-out-of-beijing-winter-olympics/
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