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Chik-fil-A does more than think. They give millions upon millions of dollars each year to anti-gay organizations (a hate group or two among them) that use that money to try and take away and deny me equal civil rights.
Imagine if a restaurant were donating millions of dollars to the KKK. Would you begrudge a black person from boycotting that restaurant and asking his friends not to spend their money there as well?
You make good points there. I would like to flipflop. I would agree gay people have every right to boycott. But the average guy on the street who doesn't care about gay issues, I dunno... Can you convince me on that, too?
You make good points there. I would like to flipflop. I would agree gay people have every right to boycott. But the average guy on the street who doesn't care about gay issues, I dunno... Can you convince me on that, too?
Nope. If somebody doesn't give a rat's patooty about gay rights issues, then they're not going to care enough to boycott or do anything about. That's the thing about apathy.
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And me and my family have ending our support of the Muppets....
Nope. If somebody doesn't give a rat's patooty about gay rights issues, then they're not going to care enough to boycott or do anything about. That's the thing about apathy.
So you'd rather your money goes to harming gay people instead.
The reality is not that simple. There are people who work at Chick-fil-a who do not agree with what the directors of the company have decided. However, there are several teenagers that start work there to pay their way through colleges, adults who have been laid off in the recent recession trying to pay bills just to stay afloat, high school grads who can't get a better paying job, etc. I have several gay friends back home in Texas who said that one man's decision won't affect where they go to eat.
Unfortunately, boycotting Chick-fil-a will affect the bottom-level employee way before it affects the top-level directors. This isn't the blacks boycotting the Montgomery city bus system, directly affecting city funding. Also, at that time blacks were well underpaid compared to their white counterparts and owning a car was out of the question. Naturally, there were are large majority of blacks riding the bus, and when they decided not to, the city felt it in their pockets. Also, there wasn't an substantial increase in white ridership that could have potentially negated the effect of the lack of black riders. In comparison, the few gay rights supporters that decide not to eat at Chick-fil-a will not be missed by those who run the company, and there seems to be several people glad about the news that decided they want to "eat mor chikin."
It shouldn't come down to "You support gays vs. you hate gays." There are a lot of factors that go into this, and your decision should come down to which factors outweigh the others. I can't be mad at someone for supporting what they believe in. Also, the employees' treatment of customers at Chick-fil-a far outweighs the treatment at any other comparable fast food restaurant. Plus they make a damn good spicy chicken sandwich, that no other fast food joint compares too. So I'll be enjoying my lunch at Chick-fil-a until they starting funding true hate groups like the KKK, or the skinheads, that are willing to kill people to make a point.
You make good points there. I would like to flipflop. I would agree gay people have every right to boycott. But the average guy on the street who doesn't care about gay issues, I dunno... Can you convince me on that, too?
That person doesn't. A boycott is first and foremost an educational exercise. A year ago, how many people knew that the money the spend at Chik-fil-A was being funneled to anti-gay (sometime hate) groups in order to finance efforts to discriminate against gay people? The point is to try and get people who love and support gay people to stop spending their money in a manner that in fact harms gay people. The boycott's message really isn't targeted at the apathetic or towards anti-gay bigots.
Today, July 25, is national 'eat at Chick-fil-A day'... next Wednesday too.
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Sounds like a good time to eat at Taco Bell.
I've been craving a cheesy gordita crunch.
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