Current Events > UK pro-gay, nay to Christian chicken fillets

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Funkydog posted...

Good. We have nando's already, we don't need a place that actively supports inhumane treatment of the LGBT+ community.

I might not know what nando's is, but I definitely agree with the latter..
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Chik-Fil-A is loved by the obese and homophobic

Slave-made smartphones = Ok
Chicken sandwich from company where one executive is a bigot = Time to protest

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SailorGoon posted...

Typically in topics like these you've got people saying "well the chicken sandwiches from this place are better anyways" yet all that means is they're still supporting another corporation and they're still eating chicken and other meats.

Listen, I don't look down on anyone for eating meat. You're free to eat whatever you want wherever you want. It's your life, your body, your money. My issue is with attitude that some take on. When they look down on others for partaking, think of themselves as some kind of paragon, and harass others to eat or not eat something from somewhere is when I get upset because the aforementioned hypocrisy.

This implies that everyone views meat eating as an ethical debate.
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DarkRoast posted...

Slave-made smartphones = Ok
Chicken sandwich from company where one executive is a bigot = Time to protest

You're too smart for this
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Phewfus posted...

Kinda hypocritical considering how the UK bends over backwards for the Muslim communities anti lgbt views.

Hardly. Been lots of resistance to their fucking asinine protests about teaching children gay people exist in school, for example.
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I remember when CNN ran a "shocking" article about how CFA donated to an extreme anti-gay group. Then when I read the article it was the fucking Salvation Army lol.


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hockeybub89 posted...

This implies that everyone views meat eating as an ethical debate.

Moreso I was getting at the ethical treatment of animals raised for slaughter. The conditions they're in and how they're raised. I don't really want to get into the ethics of eating meat. I care more about the animals treatment up to that point.
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Funkydog posted...

Phewfus posted...

Kinda hypocritical considering how the UK bends over backwards for the Muslim communities anti lgbt views.

Hardly. Been lots of resistance to their fucking asinine protests about teaching children gay people exist in school, for example.

Are there activists going into Muslim communities and pressuring them to close their businesses? I doubt it.

Good on the UK. Fuck CFA.
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cool to see the weird chic fil a cult of personality just being honest about themselves

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DarkRoast posted...

I remember when CNN ran a "shocking" article about how CFA donated to an extreme anti-gay group. Then when I read the article it was the fucking Salvation Army lol.

Well they are anti-gay, just not extreme.
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ultimate reaver posted...

cool to see the weird chic fil a cult of personality just being honest about themselves

So much deflection because they cant argue the actual point.
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So I cant protest anything without me building my own smart phone or throwing down on an expensive electric car or riding my bike

Hue
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KobeSystem posted...

So I cant protest anything without me building my own smart phone or throwing down on an expensive electric car or riding my bike

Hue

Way not to read anything. You can protest what you. Just don't be a dick about it. You're not a better person for simply spending your money elsewhere. Also you can do what I do. My phone was assembled in Japan. I see to it that most electronics I get aren't assembled in China. I also drive a hybrid. It's not that expensive. Only cost like 2 grand more than the gas model.

But you don't have to do anything. It's your money. Spend it where you like. Just don't look down on others for doing the same.
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LGBTQ members will be so happy when they read their news from their smartphones that were made by children in China.

Is it better than nandos
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SailorGoon posted...

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Don't be fucking obtuse. Everyone's gotta start somewhere. You can't expect everyone to boycott every corporation at the same time. Once the homophobic chicken shop goes under people will have more time to to focus on whatever it is you're crying about.

I think it's odd that people will mock others for protest, but if you said they were pro-child slavery or pro-pedohpilia or something for supporting a business or industry, then they would take exception.
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You'd think by some of the comments in this topic, that fast food is the best kind of food you can get in the USA.

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hockeybub89 posted...

I think it's odd that people will mock others for protest, but if you said they were pro-child slavery or pro-pedohpilia or something for supporting a business or industry, then they would take exception.

Stop pretending that you hold any kind of moral high ground. You lack integrity. That's why you get upset and call it silly when others are calling out the double standards.
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Hudawgy posted...

The LGBT 'activists' are bunch of babies that should be ignored.

They don't represent anyone but 'activist'. Its a joke.

Sorry that some people don't want a company that supports conversion therapy (a practise considered torture by any civilised person)

I'm sorry. How exactly is willfully going through conversion therapy torture, but willfully mutilating yourself not.

haha he thinks conversion therapy is willing

Given that Mike Pence was criticized as late as 2016 for wanting to fund conversion therapy for people that wanted to under go it. I find your lack of awareness pitiful.

How does telling me that Mike Pence got criticized for wanting to fund willful conversion therapy prove that conversion therapy is willful?

And as I asked the troll, should "doctors" and "therapists" just be able to do whatever they want to people as long as they convince someone to want it? Never mind science, ethics or medical efficacy? Is medicine in the eye of the beholder?

What the fuck are you going on about, funding conversion therapy for people that want to undergo it is about as much torture as going into a brothel specializing in BDSM.

And if a gay man wants to try it no matter if it works or it doesn't, that's his choice, not some idiots that go around harassing a place that serves delicious chicken 6 days a week.

But willful isn't always so clear when it comes to conversion therapy. Should the choice exist anyway? Should quacks be able to offer help regardless of how useless or damaging it could be, as long as they can find people to pay for it? Is it ethical for the choice to be available in the first place?
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KobeSystem posted...

So I cant protest anything without me building my own smart phone or throwing down on an expensive electric car or riding my bike

Hue

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Neat.
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

I think it's odd that people will mock others for protest, but if you said they were pro-child slavery or pro-pedohpilia or something for supporting a business or industry, then they would take exception.

Stop pretending that you hold any kind of moral high ground. You lack integrity. That's why you get upset and call it silly when others are calling out the double standards.

So would you or would you not take exception if someone said you support child labor if you own an Apple?
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hockeybub89 posted...

I think it's odd that people will mock others for protest, but if you said they were pro-child slavery or pro-pedohpilia or something for supporting a business or industry, then they would take exception.

You think it's odd that there's a difference in the severity of donating to the salvation army and using literal child labor? Not trying to be disingenuous. I might have simply misunderstood your point.
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chicken place bad

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RoseIsHorriblle posted...

LGBTQ members will be so happy when they read their news from their smartphones that were made by children in China.

As someone who is about to be same-sex married, I honestly don't care what one executive of a company thinks about it.

Corporations so often actively engage in truly awful things, and to stand up for this but not the shit that tech and clothing companies get away with reeks of questionable moral sincerity.

And seriously, Salvation Army does truly incredible charity work. Yeah their founders were anti-gay-marriage.

So was Obama.


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SailorGoon posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

I think it's odd that people will mock others for protest, but if you said they were pro-child slavery or pro-pedohpilia or something for supporting a business or industry, then they would take exception.

You think it's odd that there's a difference in the severity of donating to the salvation army and using literal child labor? Not trying to be disingenuous. I might have simply misunderstood your point.

I was saying that people going "but you still support child labor by buying Apple!" is silly. Neither the protester nor the critic is likely to support child labor or other such rotten practices, so what does pointing out the hypocrisy actually accomplish? "I hate it too but at least I protest none of it rather than some of it!"
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hockeybub89 posted...

I think it's odd that people will mock others for protest, but if you said they were pro-child slavery or pro-pedohpilia or something for supporting a business or industry, then they would take exception.

It's not really odd to mock some protests, because you think their cause is petty, stupid or otherwise a waste of time, and then take exception with something you think is a serious problem.
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hockeybub89 posted...

SailorGoon posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

I think it's odd that people will mock others for protest, but if you said they were pro-child slavery or pro-pedohpilia or something for supporting a business or industry, then they would take exception.

You think it's odd that there's a difference in the severity of donating to the salvation army and using literal child labor? Not trying to be disingenuous. I might have simply misunderstood your point.

I was saying that people going "but you still support child labor by buying Apple!" is silly. Neither the protester nor the critic is likely to support child labor or other such rotten practices, so what does pointing out the hypocrisy actually accomplish? "I hate it too but at least I protest none of it rather than some of it!"

Much like how the people shopping at chic fil a don't actively support homophobic practices and it's just as silly to think otherwise. In which case pointing out the hypocrisy isn't all that pointless because some people need a reality check and to be knocked off their high horse.
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SailorGoon posted...

Much like how the people shopping at chic fil a don't actively support homophobic practices and it's just as silly to think otherwise.

They certainly earn great moolah from people viewing them as a Christian beacon of righteousness in the evil gay world they live in. Especially spurned on by Mike Huckabee, who with what I can only assume is a pig, fathered the president's previous press secretary.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

They certainly earn great moolah from people viewing them as a Christian beacon of righteousness in the evil gay world they live in. Especially spurned on by Mike Huckabee, who with what I can only assume is a pig, fathered the president's previous press secretary.

You see how long the lines are? Most people there dont give a shit that the company is Christian.

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Godnorgosh posted...

Once again reminds me of when Walmart flopped in Germany, lol

As far as I can tell Chick-fil-a hasn't flopped (yet) in the UK. The venue they were leashing their locales from just didnt want the protests that came with it so they refused to extend the leash.
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BLAKUboy posted...

So much deflection because they cant argue the actual point.

Actually the other side cant either. I know they like to shit post and pretend that buying a chicken sandwich means youre a homophobe. But honestly fuck off with that shit. Im not personally responsible for how any company uses the money I give them in exchange for their goods and/or services.

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thanosibe posted...

Actually the other side cant either. I know they like to shit post and pretend that buying a chicken sandwich means youre a homophobe. But honestly fuck off with that shit. Im not personally responsible for how any company uses the money I give them in exchange for their goods and/or services.

Yeah, you are, dude. Are you kidding me? It's literally enabling.

Let's say the Nazis needed money to fund their weapons that they'll use to kill people. If you give them money for services/goods they provide and they take that money and buy weapons with it, you're enabling it.

Omfg, man.

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Nazis. Company providing goods and services. :thinking: Holy reaching Batman!

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MutantJohn posted...

thanosibe posted...

Actually the other side cant either. I know they like to shit post and pretend that buying a chicken sandwich means youre a homophobe. But honestly fuck off with that shit. Im not personally responsible for how any company uses the money I give them in exchange for their goods and/or services.

Yeah, you are, dude. Are you kidding me? It's literally enabling.

Let's say the Nazis needed money to fund their weapons that they'll use to kill people. If you give them money for services/goods they provide and they take that money and buy weapons with it, you're enabling it.

Omfg, man.

So are you enabling child labor and the oil industry? Is that the route you want to take
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I dont know why, or what it is about this particular topic but Im pretty sure I hate CE now
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You are not a bad person for eating at Chic Fil A nor are you a bad person for buying smartphones or gas. And most importantly, abstaining from these things does not make you a better person. People are free to spend their money however they like, and harassing them for doing so doesn't make you a good person either. This is the important thing to take away. Not buying a chicken sandwich or iPhone doesn't make you special, so don't act like it does.
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SailorGoon posted...

You are not a bad person for eating at Chic Fil A

If you patronize them for political reasons, you're fairly bad.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

SailorGoon posted...

You are not a bad person for eating at Chic Fil A

If you patronize them for political reasons, you're fairly bad.

As it goes for any corporation yes. Don't act like they're an exception however.
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SailorGoon posted...

As it goes for any corporation yes.

...That's nonsensical.
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SailorGoon posted...

You are not a bad person for eating at Chic Fil A nor are you a bad person for buying smartphones or gas. And most importantly, abstaining from these things does not make you a better person. People are free to spend their money however they like, and harassing them for doing so doesn't make you a good person either. This is the important thing to take away. Not buying a chicken sandwich or iPhone doesn't make you special, so don't act like it does.

This. And my wife has certain places she wont patronize. But its weird how we both have a different moral compass but still respect each other. Something that seems foreign on this topic on this forum.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

SailorGoon posted...

As it goes for any corporation yes.

...That's nonsensical.

Its bad to patronize corporations solely for political reasons except for the ones you like. There, are you happy now.
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No, that's still nonsensical gibberish.

Are you okay?
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DeadBankerDream posted...

No, that's still nonsensical gibberish.

Are you okay?

I'm sorry. I thought money was used for the exchange of goods and services so buying goods and services not for the actual goods and services is an abstract concept to me because then you're just being capitalistic and implying capitalism is good... Which it isn't.
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Do you need to lie down? A glass of water?
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UK will never know top tier fast food customer service