Marriott International’s been simping for China’s Xi Jinping for a few years now, first firing an employee who simply liked a pro-Tibet tweet, then praising the dictatorial way in which the CCP dealt with the pandemic they caused. Now, they’ve gone even further by refusing space to the World Uyghur Congress, which was holding a conference in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Axios says:
Axios learns that organizers of the conference worked with Prague-based partners and reached out for hotel quotes from Zumretay Arkin in Munich, who is the program manager for World Uyghur Congress. After that, the group sent an official to visit Marriott.
- “At first, the person didn’t mention the background information on the conference and the organization that was organizing it,” Arkin says. During the visit, this information was brought up.
- The email was soon followed by a reply from the events manager of the hotel.
“Thank you very much for your visit today. Sorry, we cannot offer these premises. The whole issue was discussed with corporate management. We are unable to offer this kind of event with a political topic because of our political neutrality. Thank you once again for your time and understanding.”
The event manager sent the email on October 1.
The Chinese Embassy in Prague condemned the World Uyghur Congress’s conference and all politicians that participated. Axios also reported:
Chinese authorities have repeatedly criticized the World Uyghur Congress for allegedly inciting unrest in Xinjiang. However, the organization does not encourage violence and is not on any international terrorist list.
When Axios contacted Marriott’s corporate offices in the Washington, DC area, a spokesperson said that when the email from their property in Prague referenced “corporate management,” they meant the local hotel, because hosting the conference would not have violated any “political neutrality” policy. However, earlier this year Marriott took the step of pausing contributions only to lawmakers who “voted against certification” of the 2020 presidential election after the events of January 6, which was a much more political stance than that taken by some other multinational corporations, which paused all political contributions at that time.
And, as the Independent Women’s Forum’s Inez Stepman pointed out, Marriott took a very concrete position supporting an actual terrorist organization, Black Lives Matter, and called out “pervasive racism” in the United States:
Can’t host a Uyghur conference for reasons of “political neutrality” but here’s what @MarriottIntlBlack Lives Matter: What I had to say Your cowardice is beyond comprehension. pic.twitter.com/SRRkZJBMig
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) November 20, 2021
Seems pretty politically UN-neutral to me, and that what Marriott’s afraid of, more than anything, is inspiring the ire of leftist organizations and communist dictators.
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