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CFA response to anti-gay alleg. "Guilty as charged." Do NOT gloat about eating at CFA
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njean777
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Ok, let me ask you a few questions and anybody else for that matter. How many of you purchase chicken from super markets like wal-Mart, h-e-b, Randall's, or Krogers, Safeway, or any other place like that? How many of you buy soy products? How many of you eat other fast food? Because if you do any of this, you are supporting far worse companies then chickfila, all of you should research the food you buy and what companies actually profit. In other words quit ragging on people when you, and most of the other people in this thread, support far worse companies then chickfila, all of you are hypocrites (as long as you live in the us). Europeans your government actually seems to give a shit about the food you eat.
I know chickfilas chickens are not farm raised either so they are guilty also, but who cares about anti-gay when there are far bigger reasons to stop supporting all of these companies.
Go back and read some of the thread and you'll find multiple replies to this argument.
If you can't boycott everything, boycott nothing! You show 'em, bro!
edit: read the thread man holy wow
I'm hyperbolizing to death, but the number of people in this thread who are trying to be cute is irritating. I don't need everybody to give the topic of gay marriage the same weight as I do, and there are certainly companies and people I support despite disliking their personal viewpoints. The topic of gay rights is of great importance to me and others though, and it would be lovely if people could respect that.
I'm not being a hypocrite at all. I don't support companies that give money to anti-gay organizations, so I'm not giving money to Chick-Fil-A.
god you are so self-entitled
njean777
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Yet you will support Monsanto and Tyson?
freenudemacusers
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I don't understand this line if reasoning at all.
I don't personally buy Tyson chicken, but I'm not familiar with either company's actions.
It's easy enough to respect that, but at the other end of the spectrum plenty of people find it to be unbelievable that one can still support gay rights and eat at places that have differing viewpoints from them, and they ironically don't respect their choice. It IS something that's still possible. I can believe that gays deserve the right to marry, but I should also be able to eat what I want without my political views coming into question.
njean777
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Read up on them, then you really won't want to eat anything.
That's fair enough. It's not viewpoints like yours I have a problem with; it's the viewpoints of the poster who was just recently banned and others like him I find annoying.
Will do.
Honestly if THAT was all it was I wouldn't be annoyed, I do think that people are over scrutinizing individual food choices to an extent. I'm personally not going to eat at CFA and I'm certainly going to encourage people around me to make the same choice... but ultimately that's what it is. In reality the important thing is the aggregate choice that I believe society is going to gradually make, to reject companies that support bigoted causes and restricting other people's freedom to live as they wish.
However, I think what is going on in this thread is slightly worse than a neutral position on CFA's personal views. Instead it seems there are a subset of people (and to some extent it's a subset of the neutral position) that seems actually MORE inclined to eat at CFA because of this thread and CFA's position. That's not a neutral, apolitical position. That's someone actually feeling inclined to support a business intent on supporting causes to dictate the way I live and the choices I'm able to make.
people lose their shit when they find out an american business is run by a fundamentalist piece of shit, yet they continue to eat everything else that is part of their diet despite a hueg amount of it being made by multinationals that are almost always involved in shady shit. Hell, look at where your chocolate comes from. People feel the need to get worked up about something now and then to justify the parasitic lifestyles we have.
This sort of protest is ultimately flaccid as it doesnt involve any real sort of loss. Giving up meat all together is another issue, or refusing to eat foods produced by a single multinational. These involve commitment and sacrifice (though this is pales in comparison to real protest where people put themselves at risk).
This sort of protest is ultimately flaccid as it doesnt involve any real sort of loss. Giving up meat all together is another issue, or refusing to eat foods produced by a single multinational. These involve commitment and sacrifice (though this is pales in comparison to real protest where people put themselves at risk).
If you can't boycott everything, boycott nothing.
LyleLanley
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You should say this more.
If I can't be every other post, I won't post!
shit, wait.
Subprime: Maybe my priorities are outta whack, but I think not supporting places which don't think certain people deserve equal rights is a decent thing to put near the top of my list.
Keru_Shiri
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On top of that, I couldn't help but get the impression that some folks were doing it just to spite other gaffers, which seems needlessly petty.
CornBurrito
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Well how is one supposed to take that sort of comment in the context of this thread?
Title and opening: Chic-Fil-A will continue to donate large sums of money to anti-gay organizations.
Idiotic poster: OMG I AM GONNA GO THERE RIGHT NOW LOL.
It isn't a stretch to assume the person agrees with Chic-Fil-A, or is trying to be a troll.
There's always larger issues to deal with. There's 2 ways that can go: you either go live as a hermit catching your own food in the forests or you take upon yourself the whole destiny of humanity so there's no larger issue above that.
Or you can compromise and just do something.
Only one issue can be worked on at a time? Bugger. Didn't know that.
ElectricBlanketFire
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I don't want to know what a kids icedream is...
Safety issue... Teehee
Count Dookkake
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"You can't fire me... I quit!"
lol, buncha knobs.
lol, buncha knobs.
I actively chose to not eat here today even though I said I probably would not do so. My oldest brother is gay so I guess I really shouldn't be giving them my money. He lives in London so their stance has less effect on him these days but it's still one I disagree with so I'll be putting my money where my mouth is.
Safety Warning: Does not prevent minorities from seeking equal rights
That is fucking ridiculous.
Christian value company forgets 'Thou Shalt Not Lie.' Kind of a big one there, what with it being in the 10 commandments and all.
Devolution
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Got their fingers stuck up puppet bums. Real classy Chick Fil-A.
Mercury Fred
Banned
lol, pathetic.
Deified Data
Banned
"We're not lying, we're omitting the truth."
PhoenixDark
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I'm curious, what end game are those upset over this expecting or hoping for? The company going out of business, being shamed into changing their policy, what exactly?
CFA doesn't discriminate customers, but use their first amendment rights to support causes that many people disagree with - but many support as well. I see no reason for outrage or even a reason to care about this. If they want to support bigoted organizations, that is their right. And if you decide not to eat there due to this, that is your right.
CFA doesn't discriminate customers, but use their first amendment rights to support causes that many people disagree with - but many support as well. I see no reason for outrage or even a reason to care about this. If they want to support bigoted organizations, that is their right. And if you decide not to eat there due to this, that is your right.
Keru_Shiri
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Understandable that they recall the toys, but making up "safety issues?" Pathetic.
You answered your own question. They choose to support bigoted organizations with their profits, I choose not to support them by giving them profits. Ideally, yes, this will cause enough of a backlash for them to reevaluate where they donate their profits, but if they insist on sticking to their "beliefs," then so shall I. I don't see why this is a difficult concept for people to grasp.PhoenixDark said:
Devolution
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Watch CFA make an ass out of itself.
Count Dookkake
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Either one is fine by me.
The latter is likelier, but I am not sure which is funnier.
Father_Brain
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It looks more like a homophobic joke (possibly conflating homosexuality with pedophilia, though that might be overthinking it) than making up safety issues.
I think that might be overthinking things. It seems more like they're grasping for excuses and want to flip the situation around.
1. I don't to support nor have I supported them for a long time.
2. I try to get the word out about their practices to other like minded people who would also not support them if they heard this news.
3. End Goal being to take enough business away to where they reconsider their donations to 'charities' which use their money to discriminate against me and other LGBT people.
Sure they don't turn gay people away at the door; but they know their money is being used to spread hatred toward gay people. That makes them a reprehensible company, worthy of all the outrage and reason enough to care.
You don't have to care about this if you don't want to, but someone else who sees stories like these and reads posts will care and will change where they do business. Every penny out of their hands means less money going toward hate and intolerance.
Can't really condense it any simpler than that.
Escape Goat
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Shouldn't it be a fish sandwich?
Father_Brain
Banned
Children getting their fingers stuck in puppet holes? Yeah, I find it hard to believe that that's not some kind of (really stupid) gay sex joke.
I can't think of any other safety issue they could invent that's related to puppets, short of swallowing them.
Don't get me wrong, I think they're a scummy company, but these are the same people that gave the asinine interview in the OP. I don't think they're clever enough to come up with some sort of awful anal sex joke, and it seems like they're trying to backpedal anyway.
Daydream Sequence
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There's at least one guy out there thinking: "I could forgive the blatant bigotry and active hatred of gays, but I won't stand for lying!"
What's scary is that their announcement about actively working to stop gay marriage will net them a ton of new customers. I love my country, but I also hate my country.
What's scary is that their announcement about actively working to stop gay marriage will net them a ton of new customers. I love my country, but I also hate my country.
Mr. Enigma
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How cute. It's as if they think nobody has Internet access or anything.
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