Conservatives Call for Chick-fil-A Boycott Over DEI Webpage
By: Mikael Thalen (The Daily Dot)
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'I will NOT patron their restaurants until they repent.'
Mikael Thalen
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Posted on May 30, 2023 Updated on May 31, 2023, 8:01 am CDT
Conservatives are calling for a boycott against Chick-fil-A after finding out the company has an executive focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
In countless remarks on Twitter this week, right-wing users, who have long supported Chick-fil-A given its owner's Christian beliefs, vowed to stop visiting the fast food chain.
The proposed boycott follows similar actions by conservatives against Bud Light and Target, two companies that showed support for the LGBTQ community and were hit by vicious backlash online.
A page on Chick-fil-A's website detailing its DEI policy, which calls for a diverse and discrimination- and harassment-free workplace, is being cited by many online as evidence that Chick-fil-A has adopted anti-Christian values.
In one such viral criticism, religious author Darrell B. Harrison accused the food establishment of "committing the sin of partiality" before arguing that "a so-called Christian company" could not "justify this policy biblically."
Dear, @ChickfilA: By adopting a corporate DEI policy, you are committing the sin of partiality (James 2:9). DEI is inherently discriminatory as it mandates that you make subjective judgments about people on the basis of external characteristics and attributes, as opposed to…
— Darrell B. Harrison (@D_B_Harrison) May 30, 2023
Other users expressed outrage over the company's promise not to discriminate against or tolerate the harassment of anyone based upon everything from sex, race, color, and religion to sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression.
"Something tells me @ChickfilA is going to be called to repent soon," another said in response to the policy.
Chick Fil-A just hired a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…
Is this just checking off a corporate box or do they believe in this Marxist nonsense?https://t.co/x1rvTGi8e1
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) May 30, 2023
Erick McReynolds, the vice president of DEI, said in a statement on the company's website that "Chick-fil-A restaurants have long been recognized as a place where people know they will be treated well."
"Modeling care for others starts in the restaurant, and we are committed to ensuring mutual respect, understanding, and dignity everywhere we do business," McReynolds wrote. "These tenets are good business practice and crucial to fulfilling our Corporate Purpose."
McReynolds, according to LinkedIn, has been with Chick-fil-A for 16 years and led its diversity and inclusion efforts for the past three years.
Many conservatives didn't seem to understand that the person has long worked there—painting it as a new hire—perhaps to emotionally cope with the fact that they've long patronized a business that promotes diversity.
"We have a problem. Chick-Fil-A just hired a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion," another user wrote. "This is bad. Very bad. I don't want to have to boycott. Are we going to have to boycott?"
We have a problem.
Chick-Fil-A just hired a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
This is bad. Very bad.
I don't want to have to boycott.
Are we going to have to boycott?
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) May 30, 2023
Some even called for McReynolds to be fired.
"Chick-Fil-A got WOKE I will NOT [patronize] their restaurants until they repent and lay off DEI staff (and those responsible for the initiative).
Chick-Fil-A got WOKE
I will NOT patron their restaurants until they repent and lay off DEI staff (and those responsible for the initiative).@ChickfilApic.twitter.com/VgO7OhtlvQ
— Cody Adams ✝️ (@storyscape_) May 30, 2023
While the topic has become popular on social media, it remains to be seen whether the alleged boycott will cut into Chick-fil-A's bottom line.
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What was the conservatives said when some people boycotted Chik Fil A because of the owner's views on LGBT issues?
LOL, you are quick...
I'm waiting on an email that will give me work to do
all gov't work is a day behind because of the holiday. go home...
I have tomorrow off and going camping
You cheat like I do. Camping with a bed, kitchen, bathroom....
LOL! My ex daughter in law called it "glamping"
whatever...I'm 61 years old. I'm not sleeping in a tent anymore
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nice, but where's the flat screen and fridge?
Next up Hobby Lobby....Hahaha
Yeah...because Hobby Lobby sells material to make a Pride flag
... and then home depot, because of the faulty spelling skills on the right...
God forbid any business or institution have policies of diversity, equity and inclusion !!!
Down with the heathens!
Gawd forbid.
... or equality, ... in america. wtf...
What the actual . . .
What kind of bassackward, insane opposite world has the multiverse thrown us into? Diversity is anti-Christian? Opposing discrimination and harassment is anti-Christian? I try to let people practice their faith without judgment from me, but if you really think these qualities are anti-Christian then you’re ignorant, at best, and likely a mean spirited bigot.
Jesus was all about diversity. Even a cursory reading of the Gospels should reveal that.
No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t mandate any such thing.
Damn! Almost got you to use the eff word
good post
yeah, he cured lepers, not gays...
History is replete with examples of the religious being very much the opposite.
In the late sixteenth century Valentius Acidalius, a teacher in Silesia, wrote a pamphlet showing that only men have souls according to the Bible. In 1676 a Lutheran paster from Frankfort Johannes Leyser published The Triumph of Polygamy exposing the merits of multiple wives and misquoted from the Council of Macon in AD 585. The Council was debating the usage of the word man. But Leyser used it to support his idea that women were inferior and therefore, "...not human after all."
Of course this is all bullshit as you know, but I we can go on and on and on about how supposedly holy people can go out of their way to be wholly evil.
In 1986 they followed up with the movie SOUL MAN
So true. One of the things I love about the Gospels - and it amazes me that they kept this in there - is how Jesus is constantly rebuking both the Hebrew leaders and his own followers for being selfish, closed-minded bigots.
I too am amazed. One of these days I'm going to need to get around to studying the Berlin Codex (aka the Gospel of Mary Magdalene).
I boycotted them ages ago ... the chicks who work there don't taste like chicken.
Me too, Had them once back in the 70's and got a case of food poisoning and never went back.
bad chicken
The one I go to is very good. As a matter of fact I had their 8 piece nuggets and macaroni and cheese for lunch today. They do a fine m & c
Glad it works for you. I still have memories of how sick I was and how much time spent hugging the porcelain throne... there are too many choices for chicken and I refuse to go back.
I got sick over Popeye's chicken. Won't go back there
Got sick eating my husband's grilled barbq chicken....still eat it. I tell him he has to cook the thighs longer
the one closest to me was the store that fired the pregnant manager, I know the guy that got the storefront glass replacement contract. LOL
Did they fire her because she's pregnant?
I really can't remember now. it was several years ago and it was a PR fiasco for them. I do remember they had to replace a lot of expensive glass the next couple days. dual pane, quarter inch, laminated, tempered storefront... cha-ching...
We got fried chicken last weekend from a place we never did before. It was raw in the middle.
Hope you didn't eat it. That will land you in the hospital
I checked all the commandments and I could not find that sin, maybe it's under another heading.
Seems that reading or the contents of the bible are his strong suit.
He skipped over that part
Yeah, “partiality” per se isn’t in the Bible, but the idea comes from the book of James. Basically, the idea was not to treat some people better than others based on some superficial quality - like their clothes - for your own interest. It’s a perfectly good position to take, but I don’t think this is a good example. The only way it could be is if you subscribe to the illogical assumption that being good to all people somehow means treating some better than others.
Think of who is being discussed.
LOL, yup...