TheRealKuni comments on Tony Perkins Calls For Boycotting "Woke" Chick-fil-A

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 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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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 74 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That happened?! I’m frankly stunned.

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[+] regdog@lemmy.world -39 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Uh, the article is literally about it happening.

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[+] regdog@lemmy.world -36 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, and what is happening is "outrage"

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 35 points 10 months ago

Yes, outrage that a historically anti-lgbt company showed support for the LGBT community. It's more than just 'some dude is angry'

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 10 months ago

also the guy who is upset is literally linked to at least three guys (one of whom was JOSH DUGGAR) who sexually assaulted children.

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[+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 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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[–] nullroot@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Or maybe they just actually know diversity is a good thing that helps a company make better products. Apple never struck me as particularly stupid, just evil.

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 5 points 10 months ago

Or maybe they just actually know diversity is a good thing that helps a company make better products.

Oh absolutely.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Not really. The issue is the corporate overlords at that company donating millions of dollars to shitty things like conversion therapy camps.

They donate to a huge range of shitty things to this day.

They are trash.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 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.