Chick-Fil-A has gone woke.
Guess they’ll soon join the ranks of Target, Kohl’s and Anheiser-Bush...
Just when we thought we had a safe place to eat. This QUEER/BLACK thing is like a virus!
Another stupid woke-ism company that just got entered onto my “No Buy” list.
The money to be made conforming to ESG must be very lucrative.
We can decry this behavior, and recognize that it is a sign of the times, days of Lot, days of Noah, and focus on spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Time is very short.
How long until Dylan is eating Chickfilet in a bath tube full of Bud Light?
We shall see how long Hobby Lobby lasts.
I don’t want to give other people a hard time.
I expect other people to not give me a hard time.
Forcing stuff down my throat, making everything a big deal, constantly telling me how I fall short in so many ways in my failure to fully accept other people ... all of that is just giving me a hard time.
So I’m a whole lot less tolerant of the abnormal people than I used to be.
The company has consistently moved left since Truitt Cathy passed away.
Why can’t these companies just shut up? Offer quality goods at fair prices.
Follow federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act. And otherwise just shut up.
When my furnace guy comes for the fall furnace inspection, he doesn’t babble on about politics, fairness, equity, or anything else. He just does what I pay him to do. That’s it. Why can’t big companies do the same?
Are these companies so cowered by woke fascism that they will risk losing customers to stay politically correct? I guess so.
when the backlash against CFA was building in 2019, Franklin Graham stepped in to quell the boycott. I hope he was just a “useful idiot” for chick fil a but when he did that I stopped donating to Samaritan’s Purse. We have been giving thousands a year to them but I began to doubt their motives after that episode and removed them from list of potential recipients of my hard earned money
Another easy boycott for me. I very rarely eat fast food and haven’t been to a Chick-fil-A in decades. I don’t care for chicken much. I’ll make it home only because it is less expensive than beef, lamb and pig. I’m not paying a premium on something that I really don’t enjoy.
I’ve been watching llbean to see if they put their “Get outside with pride” page on their website again.
Here’s why this is happening:
<< The CEI (Corporate Equality Index) is a woke credit score that judges companies based on how many woke issues they are pushing. Especially LGBTQ agenda issues and BLM.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) gives the score, and they send lobbyists to companies and give them a list of demands. If the companies don’t comply, the woke investors put pressure on the boards, activists are mobilized, advertising campaigns are shut down, and anyone who continues to do business with the poorly scored company will be penalized.
Who funds the HRC? The Open Society Foundation (OSF). Who runs OSF? George Soros. Essentially, businesses that don’t get a good score are
targeted by woke activists who use threats and coercion against them. >>
Only way to counter this phenomenon is through massive boycotts, essentially giving companies a choice to choose their pain. Boycott pain needs to be worse.
I’m trying to understand how this works. There is an ESG rating for corporations but how and why does it exert so much influence in corporate boardrooms? I understand BlackRock influences this but do they actually control the mechanism by proxy? Are these companies literally coerced into this or does this ESG investment angle really make sense from a business perspective?
There’s this, too:
“Sorry, we meant Democracy, Equality, and Independence. What did you think we meant?”
I will continue not eating there
This is not fair to Chick-Fil-A
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/chick-fil-a-banned-from-second-airport-in-less-than-2-weeks
https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporate-equality-index
It would be all different if the US had free markets where consumers through the purchases decide how that market looks and what services and products are offered and at what price.
This is the US today: https://fortune.com/2023/04/12/new-biden-administration-epa-pollution-rules-require-10x-ev-sales-2032/ (The government decided what you drive, not you, the government did, and these policies will eventually trickle down to your purchases in that the government will guide your decisions through taxation, subsidies, or the availability of certain products and services)
We all know that the free market is history, it’s just a cliche thrown around today by some politicians, but it’s no longer a reality. The US is a social democracy, a technocracy, where government has broad reaching regulatory powers, a huge portion of the GDP is government, the government has the ability to administratively punish without a trial, to tax without calling it a tax, to seize property with extremely liberal eminent domain rules, where you do not have a right to free speech, you do not have a right to move freely, you have no right to privacy in your person or affects, and you have no real recourse.
Americans are “subjects” and no longer “the sovereign” they once were.
***Chick-Fil-A is merely trying to survive in a world where if you do not play along, you get crushed.***
If you believe that is an over exaggeration, look at Covid and what we did with businesses, people who refused to get vaccinated or tested... You will comply, or else.