Re: Now Far-Right Nutters Want to Boycott Fox News & Chick-Fil-A Over Diversity / Inclusion Plan

[OrigInfoJunkie]

On 6/23/2023 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> In article <u6r1g1$2b5oi$3...@dont-email.me>, now...@protonmail.com wrote:
>
>> Now Far-Right Nutters Want to Boycott Chick-Fil-A Over Diversity /
>> Inclusion Plan
>>
>> Critics are targeting the chicken chain after discovering its months-old
>> diversity and inclusion plan.
>>
>>
>> Ultra right-wing pundits have gone ballistic over fast food chain Chick-
>> fil-A hiring a director of diversity, who just so happens to be Black.
>> Conservative blowhards unleashed their frustration with the company, known
>> for its Christian-influenced business model, after discovering a months-
>> old update on Chick-fil-A’s website about diversity and inclusion
>> initiatives.
>>
>> “Chick-fil-A restaurants have long been recognized as a place where people
>> know they will be treated well. Modeling care for others starts in the
>> restaurant, and we are committed to ensuring mutual respect, understanding
>> and dignity everywhere we do business. These tenets are good business
>> practice and crucial to fulfilling our Corporate Purpose,” wrote Erick
>> McReynolds, Chick-fil-A’s vice president of diversity, equity, and
>> inclusion.
>>
>> The company added it was committed to be “better together” with its
>> community: “When we combine our unique backgrounds and experiences with a
>> culture of belonging, we can discover new ways to strengthen the quality
>> of care we deliver: to customers, to the communities we serve and to the
>> world. We understand that getting Better at Together means we learn
>> better, care better, grow better and serve better.”
>>
>>
>>
>> According to web archives, the page has been up since at least September,
>> and McReynolds’ LinkedIn shows he was promoted to Chick-fil-A’s VP of
>> diversity, equity, and inclusion in November 2021. Starting in July 2020,
>> he served as DEI executive director. But for whatever reason, rightwingers
>> weren’t too thrilled with the discovery and went balls to the wall with
>> their anger Tuesday.
>> “Everything good must come to an end,” tweeted Wade Miller, a self-
>> proclaimed “Anti-Woke” but simultaneously a “Pro-Civil Rights” activist
>> who’s also the executive director of Citizens for Renewing America. “Here
>> @Chickfila is stating it’s [sic] commitment to systemic racism, sexism,
>> and discrimination. I cannot support such a thing.”
>> Jeff Clark, an assistant attorney in the Trump administration, called
>> Chick-fil-A’s move “disappointing.”
>> But a self-described political strategist, Joey Mannarino, took the cake
>> with his unhinged take.
>>
>>
>> “It’s only a matter of time until they start putting tranny semen in the
>> frosted lemonade at this point,” he tweeted. (Ironically, LGBTQ+ allies
>> rallied against Chick-fil-A, a company founded by a devout Southern
>> Baptist, in 2012 when CEO Dan Cathy mentioned his support for the
>> “biblical definition of the family unit” rather than same-sex marriage.)
>> Chick-fil-A isn’t the only corporation to be at the end of right-wing
>> boycott threats lately. Conservatives blasted Kohl’s over the weekend due
>> their Pride apparel for infants. Earlier in May, Target was the subject of
>> conservative outrage when it released clothing for children ahead of Pride
>> Month. And Bud Light received backlash when the company partnered with a
>> transgender woman for a March Madness post on Instagram. (There has also
>> been a war against inclusive chocolate companies.)
>> As threats to boycott Chick-fil-A gained steam Tuesday, Stew Peters, who
>> hosts a far-right podcast, shared a three-year-old clip of Cathy speaking
>> on a panel at Passion City Church in Texas after the murder of George
>> Floyd and during the height of the anti-police brutality protests.
>> He spoke about unconscious biases and the responsibility of white people
>> to dismantle racism.
>>
>> “Until we as Caucasians, until we’re willing to just pick up the baton and
>> fight for our Black, African American brothers and sisters—which they are
>> as one human race—we’re shameful. We’re just adding to it. Our silence is
>> so huge at this time. …It is shameful how we let things get so out of
>> whack,” he said.
>>
>> “Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy says ALL whites should get on their knees and
>> shine black peoples’ shoes with ‘a sense of shame, a sense of
>> embarrassment,’” Peters wrote, appearing to not understand the metaphor
>> Cathy used and also misinterpreting what Cathy meant when he shined a
>> Black man’s shoes onstage. (Cathy had used the gesture to symbolically
>> imply white people need to listen to concerns about racial injustice.)
>> Chick-fil-A did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for
>> comment Tuesday.
>
> At least we're consistant in our contrived outrage

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"

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[NoBody]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 04:30:47 -0400, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net>

>At least they're consistant in their outrage, unlike most leftists.

Why do lefties have such a problem with people choosing not support
companies that spit in their faces?