What's going on with Chik-fil-A that's upset Charlie Kirk?
I saw this on Twitter and now I'm confused. What is he talking about?
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1199689736270598144
I did search around, but the most recent thing on here about Chick-fil-A was 3 months back.
Seems to have something to do with an LGBTQ funding controversy I'm also clueless about.
Posted Nov 28, 2019, 2:35 AM UTC
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People mad Chik fil a donated to Salvation Army and they decided and reverted their decision to stop donating.
Charlie is upset because he rated them as some moral company that fell away by falling into peer pressure.
You know what? This is fine. Charlie Kirk is absolutely allowed to call for a boycott of a company that doesn't line up with his political or cultural beliefs.
What he's not allowed to do is act like a whiny little baby whenever someone else calls for a protest against one of his pet companies. The odds of that happening seem slim, but hey: turnaround is fair play, Charlie.
Here's a tweet about Chik fil a specifically.
He's perfectly allowed to but he's going to get made fun of if he does.
What do you expect, he failed college only to bitch about colleges to conservatives while getting paid by oil barons.
Oh no, small faced diaper baby Kirk is angry that the free market is working as intended.
Ugh
I know you mean well by this comment, but this points to a much deeper, darker implication of capitalism and corporation's LGBT support.
The only reason companies are supporting LGBT groups is because LGBT people basically won after a lot of fighting, violence, and death. Why weren't they posting rainbow flags about twenty years ago back when gay marriage was illegal in most of America? How many companies do you think would donate to awful people and organizations if they thought it wouldn't affect their brand? And do you think they'll stick their neck out for any actual controversial movement of marginalized people in the future?
The "Free Market" working basically means it's fine for companies to only slightly more bigoted then the average person in america, and since it's companies that have all the power in capitalism, I see that as a big problem.
Diaper baby?
how is this a free market thing?
your downvotes mean nothing to me, I've seen what makes you upvote
Conservatives like Charlie Kirk always tout the free market, that if people demand it then businesses should follow the demand.
Well now people are demanding Chickfila to stop supporting gay conversion Christian charities and Chickfila is following what the market wants.
They love the free market until it pisses off their own side and that's fucking hilarious.
The distinction I'd make is that if CUSTOMERS demand it then business should follow the demand. The people demanding it already boycotted Chick-fil-a and aren't likely to return regardless of capitulation.
Chik fil a is still going to donate to Salvation Army. I don't think Salvation Army has anything to do with gay conversion therapy.