Whenever I pass by a Chik fil a in a progressive city with a gigantic line I think it’s kind of amazing a chicken sandwich can taste good enough that everyone’s cool with the homophobia they’re helping fund
@mathowie I think at some point we all get tired of being expected to police {waves hands} everything. Sometimes you just want a chicken sandwich with waffle fries. I usually skip Chik-Fil-A because the lines are so long, and the McDonald's Crispy Chicken Sandwich is pretty damn good.
@chrisod@mathowie really? Avoiding chick-fil-a seems like the EASIEST of ways to fight homophobia. No one is being asked to picket or march or do ANYTHING hard.
@rickscully@mathowie My point is that skipping the chick-fil-a drive through doesn't actually move the needle against homophobia. Consumer boycotts vs. big companies rarely accomplish anything but create a few ad dollars for the news orgs that trumpet them for a couple of days. Individual consumers aren't going to fix systemic problems. They want us to think all these problems are on our shoulders - it leaves us too tired to do anything else to change the system.
We will never, ever recycle our way out of our environmental problems. We have to stop pollution at the source. Which is why the Consumer Ad Council created the Crying Indian commercials 50 years ago. They were way ahead of us in redirecting out efforts from government regulation to individual action.
No ethical consumption under capitalism, can’t recycle our way out of the climate crisis, of course of course. Both true. But “not spending money on an extremely, explicitly evil company actively funding activities that harm our LGBTQ siblings” seems like a pretty low bar to clear, basic human decency-wise.
@Sadsquatch@rickscully@mathowie I never said we should all load up on waffle fries - I said it's understandable that given everything all of us have to deal with (moreso for marginalized communities), it's understandable if people occasionally say fuck it and order the waffle fries. Voting for Ted Cruz and ordering the large waffle fries are both bad - but not equally bad - and trying to equate the two hurts more than helps the ultimate goal we all want.
@chrisod@Sadsquatch@rickscully yeah I don’t fault anyone trying their best. I avoid Walmarts for philosophical reasons but once every five years or so I’ll be in a remote place where it’s my only option and I hold my nose and spend a few bucks there even though I’d prefer not to.
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