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Chick-fil-A faces backlash over ‘your community’ tweet
NY Pst ^ | September 12, 2022 | Thomas Barrabi

Posted on 09/12/2022 10:35:53 AM PDT by libsdelendaest

Chick-fil-A scrambled to explain itself after a reply to a customer with the phrase “your community” sparked allegations of racism.

The social media backlash began last Friday after one user tweeted the message “grilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets” to the fast-food giant’s official account.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backlash; chickfla; community; dogwhistle; racism; woke
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1 posted on 09/12/2022 10:35:53 AM PDT by libsdelendaest
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To: libsdelendaest

What was the problem with the comment? I do not see it.


2 posted on 09/12/2022 10:37:50 AM PDT by madison10
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To: libsdelendaest

If you are looking to be offended, you will be successful 100% of the time.


3 posted on 09/12/2022 10:39:23 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: madison10

The “woke” left want to make anything said “racist”.....


4 posted on 09/12/2022 10:40:32 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: libsdelendaest

My goodness, such hair-triggered offense these days. Looks like the term community has gone down the same rabbit hole as the word gay. Wistfully recalling when gay simply had a happy meaning...


5 posted on 09/12/2022 10:42:10 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: madison10

Me either. I live in a community. We even have Chik Fil A in my community.


6 posted on 09/12/2022 10:42:47 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: libsdelendaest; All
Might’ve been nice to include their actual tweet in the summary: “Your community will be the first to know if spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!”

This triggered Twitter followers to read “community” and think “black community” — who taught them that association?

The company has been using “community” in various posts when items are coming to local area menus. Chick-fil-a apologizing for “poor choice of words” for using the word “community” is ridiculous CYA.

7 posted on 09/12/2022 10:43:54 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Giant meteor 2022!!!)
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To: libsdelendaest

Some people spend their entire waking hours looking for things to complain about. They want to complain and put you on the defensive, which (they think) will instantly give them that prized Victim Status, to whom ‘the debt’ can never be fully repaid. This can be overcome by refusing to accept much of any guilt. You don’t always have to play their game.


8 posted on 09/12/2022 10:44:13 AM PDT by lee martell ( )
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To: madison10

Now we are guilty for what we say “infers”. Basically you have to assume guilty “intentions” for the writer for now on. We are expected to be so woke that we avoid anything that could mean something offensive.


9 posted on 09/12/2022 10:44:14 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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10 posted on 09/12/2022 10:44:33 AM PDT by KnightAstronomer1
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To: ConservaTexan

some one equated “your community” with “you people”... ashame that that some one is an idiot.


11 posted on 09/12/2022 10:45:27 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!” Chick-fil-A’s account responded.”

I agree.......some people see racism and a possible winning lottery ticket in everything.

I worked for the DoD for 31 years. The federal government is the ultimate woke company.....I could tell you stories similar to this one all day that would leave you shaking your head in disbelief......sometimes I wonder how I did it.


12 posted on 09/12/2022 10:45:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: madison10

There’s nothing wrong with it. Fast food chains often have menu items that are available in some communities and not others. (Arby’s doesn’t have certain things here that I’d like to try; but “community” means my AREA, not my skin color, race or ethnicity.)

People have gone crazy.


13 posted on 09/12/2022 10:46:48 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: libsdelendaest

Twitter posts are not “backlash”. Reduced sales are.

Apologizing never helps. It only makes the freaks redouble their crazy demands.


14 posted on 09/12/2022 10:47:55 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: teeman8r

This from the same mentality that forced a guy to resign from his job for using the word “niggardly”.......remember that?


15 posted on 09/12/2022 10:49:40 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: libsdelendaest

[[Chick-fil-A faces backlash]]

Who cares!- they weren’t being racist and no amount of minority screaming and childish foot-stomping will change that fact! Ignore the criticism!


16 posted on 09/12/2022 10:51:03 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: teeman8r
Anger Management
17 posted on 09/12/2022 10:52:03 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: libsdelendaest

the spicy nuggets revolution

into the streets, comrades


18 posted on 09/12/2022 10:53:15 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: libsdelendaest

Community = local area.

The left’s goal is to keep conservatives on defense all the time. Thus they will make up false claims so conservatives spin their wheels defending themselves. It’s quite obvious what they are doing.


19 posted on 09/12/2022 10:54:01 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: libsdelendaest

What? This is so stupid! They can deem anything racist especially if they want to destroy you. Seriously, who’s buying into this crap anymore?


20 posted on 09/12/2022 10:54:01 AM PDT by mikelets456
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