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Tony Perkins Calls For Boycotting "Woke" Chick-fil-A - Joe.My.God. (www.joemygod.com)
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[–] 191 points 10 months ago (25 children)

Important note: This doesn't suddenly mean that Chick-Fil-A and the people who own it are suddenly good guys now.

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  • [–] 135 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    I mean, how many companies are maintaining their DEI programs these days?

    I’m not gonna say Chick-fil-A are perfect angels, but the article is about a guy who is upset because one of the locations in Utah celebrated a gay marriage and corporate backed them up. That’s a very different Chick-fil-A than in 2012.

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  • [–] 74 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    That happened?! I’m frankly stunned.

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  • [+] -39 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Nothing happened. It is merely the current "Outrage of the Week".

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Uh, the article is literally about it happening.

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  • [+] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I’m not surprised by that. Apple does plenty of evil shit, and has straight-up bribed Trump because it’s the wise business move, but they’ve been ostensibly “socially progressive” for most of the company’s history.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    They went through a very public divestment of the company from all the “family” centric hate groups. The owners still donate to them personally but the company’s charitable giving arm does not.

    You could call them woke for “backing up” a gay marriage or you could say they chose not to go to the trouble of breaking heads over some gay marriage. I know the Trump era has emboldened the worst of us, but that doesn’t mean everyone is for sure willing to prove that their PR has been phony all along. They don’t have enough to gain.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    the bar for capitalists pigs is incredibly low...but to give credit where it's do, they atleast pay a halfway decent wage, take basic measures to keep employees safe/healthy (shade/hested spaces in winter, for drive through people), are relatively good in insuring QC in their supply chain, and actually have a pretty generous franchise setup.

    admittedly these are things that the overwhelming majority of the West just...insures via basic government regulation, but they sure could be a hell of a lot worse.

    alls i'm saying is when/if the Revolution happens, their CEO isnt even in the top 50-100 people that need to get got.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    If you think Chic-Fil-A is woke (not saying you, just people in general), you probably should become a fan of Marjorie Taylor-Greene. She's also suddenly become a huge supporter of Leftist politics and isn't a piece of shit racist. /s

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Is it possible for Chic-fil-a to ever redeem itself in your eyes?

    If they fired everyone involved with every controversy and started donating every cent of profit to LGBT charity groups, would you say they were a good company, or is it once tainted always tainted.

    Chic-fil-a has made a lot of changes in the past decade and a half, and I'm of the opinion that, if no amount of self reflection and change can ever make us reconsider our condemnation, then there's no reason for anything to try and change, as it won't stop the hate.

    Not that Chic-fil-a is perfect, but I would argue they are now as good or better than any other fast food chain we're not actively hating on. They actually pay their employees more than minimum wage and give them one guaranteed weekend day off if nothing else.

    So why continue to put them down now that it's "mission accomplished?" If the goal was for them to change, and they have, it seems that we should bring them back into the fold, no?

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    s it possible for Chic-fil-a to ever redeem itself in your eyes?

    I honestly haven't been following them.

    Did they ever admit fault? That's big for me. An explicit "we were wrong"

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago*

    if no amount of self reflection and change can ever make us reconsider our condemnation, then there's no reason for anything to try and change, as it won't stop the hate

    A very important point that we should all remember. It's critical to continue a no-tolerance policy of intolerance, but to accept those who want to change.

    I'm not running to Chick-fil-A anytime soon but the point remains.

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