Posted on 05/31/2023 9:24:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some conservatives have suggested a boycott of Chick-fil-A after the fast-food chain was discovered to have a vice president of “diversity, equity, [and] inclusion,” or DEI.
In a previously issued Chick-fil-A news release, the company said that Erick McReynolds serves as its vice president of DEI, saying: “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.”
DEI is a set of principles that large corporations, government agencies, and schools have increasingly incorporated into their work environments, often mandating employees receive such training. However, these principles are rooted in Marxism, according to prominent critics including Christopher Rufo and James Lindsay, that are essentially vehicles for “left-wing racialist ideology and partisan political activism.”
“They are designed to replace the system of academic merit with a system of race-based preferences and discrimination—which, in many cases, explicitly violates federal civil rights law,” wrote Rufo for his Substack page earlier this year.
The Chick-fil-A announcement was highlighted this week by several prominent conservative accounts. According to McReynolds’s LinkedIn page, he was hired as Chick-fil-A’s vice president for “Diversity, Equity [and] Inclusion” in late 2021.
“We have a problem,” wrote Joey Mannarino, a conservative host in highlighting Chick-fil-A’s prior announcement, on Twitter Tuesday morning. “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?”
He also wrote: “The Left is going crazy again over the Chick-fil-A boycott that conservatives are considering. They’re mad because we’ve FINALLY gotten effective at boycotts. Any company that is pushing the trans stuff on our kids or the DEI stuff, we are going to pick the worst offenders.”
“So Chick-fil-A has a diversity, equity and inclusion division,” added columnist Todd Starnes on Tuesday. “Well, that explains the fried cauliflower sandwiches and kale salad.”
By Tuesday afternoon, Lindsay wrote on Twitter that he agreed with the boycott calls and made demands. “We must demand that Chick-fil-A fire their entire ESG and Sustainability staff and partners (including DEI), referring to the left-wing environmental, social, and governance framework.
“Ideally we get them to confess how they got caught up in the racket, and then we return support,” he added. “Conservatives might actually be able to pull this one off.”
The chicken-based fast-food chain has been generally well respected among conservatives due to the company’s religious values and its prior support for religious groups. In the McReynolds DEI announcement, Chick-fil-A makes reference to its corporate purpose, which is “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us” and “to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A.”
The Epoch Times has contacted Chick-fil-A for comment.
In recent weeks, a number of companies have faced backlash for embracing what critics say are left-wing values or a pro-LGBT agenda. Since early April, Bud Light has seen a significant backlash after it produced a beer can with transgender activist and influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s face and as Mulvaney suggested a partnership with the brand.
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To be fair, I should also mention that I went to Wendy’s about four or five months ago.
Two meals - a Frosty or two (perhaps) - $27.
Yowza.
I got the Hardee’s “Dinosaur Burger” - it was good - it was also nearly $27 for two. That Hardee’s has since closed down.
home cooked is always the best.
Black rock and others are funding this
Chick-fil-A’s quality has gone way down in the past year or two since they expanded so rapidly. The lines are still full, but that probably includes people who thought their last visit’s poor quality was just a one off. It’s not, I’ve had multiple successive bad outcomes from different locations.
Imagine trying to make money by selling a good product that your customer’s want and not telling them how to live. It’s an absolute waste of corporate privilege.
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You identify the root of our problem - the marriage of ‘Corporatism’ and government. Benito Mussolini said, “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
Chickenshiites
several years ago, maybe 8 or 9, when the sodomites started to boycott and protest publically in front of them. Chic-fil-a broke then and made statements they didn’t mind about gays.
My guess is that elements of the financial sector told them they better do it, or they will experience issues in the stock market and regulatory issues.
We need to get better at inflicting pain. We will lose if the Lefties are the only ones doing it.
That was a disturbing video.
Probably when the father died and the son took over.
“When did they ‘go woke?’”
It must’ve been about five years ago. Had to do with support of homosexuals, IIRC.
“Jesse Watters showed a video of the ahole CEO polishing a black guy’s shoes.”
The guys on LFS5B showed that, too. He was down on his knees, groveling. Said he had distributed thousands of those shoe-shine brushes to employees as a token for team building or something.
The man is seriously of the rails.
So why didn't you just carry on?
Or do some need to be treated better than others? Hmmmm?
For those still wondering...major investment firms (BlackRock, Vanguard, etc.) are *requiring* these companies to pass a DEI/CEI score to avoid disinvestment, along with no new investment, including financing, forcing their hands. Our 401k dollars are being used against us.
This *must* change. It translates into the very type of discrimination that is illegal, not hiring by merit but by gender and sexual orientation. Part of the score requires internal programs for LGBTQ+ folks (and ‘allies’) as well as engaging in contracts with LGBTQ+ entities.
DEI is pure marxism - equality of outcome. Of course, this can only go down the one, inevitable, path - equal misery for everyone - socialism at best, communism at worst. And the last person that can speak up, the straight white Christian male - if you do, you’ll be laughed at because your opinion doesn’t count because you have automatic “privilege”.
It’s sick. I know I lost out to a position due to this. I was highly qualified, 4 high level interviews went very well. Then I saw the job posted through a 3rd party resource firm, called “The Professional Diversity Network”. A firm dedicated to helping companies grow a ‘more diverse’ workforce. I inquired about the decision after a few of weeks and was told, “yes, top candidate! please have a little patience”. After another couple of weeks and then seeing this posting I withdrew my candidacy out of principle - let them know they’re going to lose good people. I don’t believe they filled the role yet.
That said, this crap is everywhere.
Who could be this stupid? I will never eat there again.
Well, By.
This.
I believe it still is. If the owners are given a chance to defend themselves we may find a different story..
I’m currently listening to Grace to You sermons on living in America under judgment. This one is agrees how to live in a nation under divine abandonment.
Living in a Perverse World (Philippians 2:12-16)
https://youtu.be/eSXzUDh7o60
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