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    Rashad Robinson,The Guardian Fri, Nov 8 6:00 PM GMT+7


    Photograph: Eric Gay/APWhen you live in a racist society, even something as simple as a chicken sandwich may not be just a chicken sandwich.

    enjoy itmillions to anti-gay political groups, including the known hate group Family Research Council, run by Tony Perkins. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Perkins has spoken to an avowed white supremacist organization and railed against the growth of Islam in America. When running the Senate campaign of his mentor, Woody Jenkins, he paidshade at each other on Twitter. In a new ad last week, Popeyes even trolledreviewreport in Jacobinnotes that Popeyes continues to pay its diverse workforce poverty wages, just $8.32 an hour for cooks. Its parent company, Restaurants Brands International, made $5.35bn in revenue in 2018. But when a hard-fought organizing campaign resulted in a higher minimum wage in Ontario in 2016, RBI respondednot taken steps to reduce its contributions to deforestation through its supply chain, which relies heavily on things like palm oil.
    Other corporations have tried to trade on wokeness far more explicitly than Popeyes. Nike got praise from many for its 2018 ad featuring Colin Kaepernick, the blacklisted black quarterback frozen out of the NFL for daring to protest against police violence against the black community. At the same time, the company is moving backwards on its accountability on exploited sweatshop labor. In 2017, Nike refused to submit to independent monitoring of its overseas factories by the Worker Rights Consortium. Starbucks made headlines in 2015 with an ill-received campaign that encouraged baristas to talk about race, then made different headlines

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    Rather amused at the ever repressive Farang political circle.
    Over thinking most everything.

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    • #3
      Over thinking most everything.
      Western cultural meme.
      Originally posted by Ergenburgensmurgen;n186588
      What are you talking about, I don't post on Teakdoor.


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      • #4
        Ironic that 'chicken' is gay mens slang for young, handsome bit of trade

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Arthur Daley View Post
          Ironic that 'chicken' is gay mens slang for young, handsome bit of trade
          While "chick" to everyone else means (or used to mean) "girl." The irony escapes me.
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          • #6
            Why not just open it at night when all the poofs are too busy cruising for sex in parks and toilets

            Won't be anyone left to protest

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Arthur Daley View Post
              Why not just open it at night when all the poofs are too busy cruising for sex in parks and toilets

              Won't be anyone left to protest
              you're mired in the past, Pat: both feet sinking into the quicksand of yesteryear.
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              • #8
                Yep, and I believe that all Thais are rice farmers and farangs only marry prostitutes

                Bring back the British Empire

                Last edited by Arthur Daley; 11-12-2019, 12:09 AM.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Arthur Daley View Post
                  Yep, and I believe that all Thais are rice farmers and farangs only marry prostitutes
                  You mean, it's not true any longer?
                  Originally posted by Ergenburgensmurgen;n186588
                  What are you talking about, I don't post on Teakdoor.


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                  • #10
                    Stickman thinks so

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Arthur Daley View Post
                      Stickman thinks so
                      Stickman's field research has always been clouded by his opinion of what reality is. You may be the last person on earth who feels comfortable quoting him.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Arthur Daley View Post


                        Things changed and the average Thai woman became more interested in foreign men. And then Internet dating became mainstream and meeting local women who had never stepped foot in a bar became super easy.
                        Stickman thinks so
                        I visited TC a few times as a guest but had to stop. It is a sickening place. - Aging One

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                        • #13
                          Chick-fil-A is trying to distract you
                          Opinion by Richard Morgan (CNN)

                          Richard Morgan is a freelance writer in New York and the author of "Born in Bedlam." He has written for many publications including The Economist, The New Yorker, The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. The views expressed in this commentary are the author's.
                          Chick-fil-A is staring back at you.

                          After drawing backlash in previous years for funding homophobic charities and nonprofit organizations, including the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and The Salvation Army, the chicken sandwich spot announced on Monday that, as part of "a more focused giving approach to provide additional clarity and impact," it will focus on homelessness, hunger and education. That is not the change of heart it seems.

                          This would perhaps be more convincing if Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A's CEO, acknowledged as wrong, and directly apologized for the comments that he made in 2012 about the company's belief and support of the "the biblical definition of the family unit." Instead, the company released a statement saying that "The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect -- regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender...Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena."

                          Fun fact: there is no "policy debate" about gay marriage. There is settled law. Gay marriage has been enshrined as justice by the Supreme Court since 2015. It's hypocrisy to claim a commitment to "respect" and describe same-sex marriage, affirmed as legal in the Obergefell decision, as a "policy debate" in the same breath. With its new announcement, Chick-fil-A did he corporate charity equivalent of apologizing without ever saying sorry. It is sobriety disguised as therapy or healing. It is silence hoping to pass as reverence. It is tolerance doing its best impression of fellowship.

                          It didn't mention any shift in its views on homosexuality, despite Covenant House International, the homeless charity that Chick-fil-A is associated with, having formed a partnership in 2014 with Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund, which fights queer homelessness.

                          Such unspokenness is the same faux diplomacy that allows comedian Kevin Hart to say "So what?" -- the queer version of "I don't see color" -- when rapper Lil Nas X told him he was gay during a September episode of HBO's "The Shop: Uninterrupted." Although Hart goes on to say that it's important to understand and acknowledge people's differences, he never says, for example, "I would love my son if he were gay." (Hart famously stepped down from hosting the 2019 Oscars after a backlash over homophobic jokes he'd made in the past, for which he -- eventually -- apologized.) This unspokenness is the kind of thing that lets Michael Bloomberg think he can control his own forgiveness with a simple "I was wrong" apology for years of defending and promoting racist policing without acknowledging that such an apology means so many fines, arrests, and convictions were also wrong. An apology centered on the apologizer is vain catharsis, not enlightened or humbled redemption.

                          Fitting for a two-faced corporation, Chick-fil-A is biting two tongues at once: the one that refuses to acknowledge the right of anyone to love whomever they please, and the one that proudly mingles what the company calls in its 2020 Chick-fil-A Foundation priorities "staying true to its mission of nourishing the potential in every child" with a cowardice about the holiness of those of God's children who are also gay children.

                          However self-purported Christians act interpersonally, and however corporations act financially, every formally stated effort of selflessness, kindness, patience, gentleness, self-control -- all fruits of the Holy Spirit -- are rendered rancid and hollow when personal tenderness is superseded by structural toxicity.

                          On Monday, Chick-fil-A said that the reason for this change was that its previous charitable commitments -- which the company neglected to note were rooted in homophobia -- wrapped up in 2018. The new announcement was for 2020's commitments. But what about them? What about 2019? Where does Chick-fil-A stand on LGBTQ rights?

                          Maybe Chick-fil-A was so serious with its soul-searching that it took 11 impassioned months to do this better thing. Or maybe it had something to do with a Chick-fil-A in Reading, England -- Britain's first location! -- which opened on October 10 and closed eight days later, unable to fulfill even its six-month pilot amid local scrutiny and protest for its bigotry. God only knows.
                          "Watch your words and hold your tongue," warns the Old Testament's Book of Proverbs. "You'll save yourself a lot of grief."

                          But Chick-fil-A has always been far more about the New Testament. In that tome -- in the Gospel of John -- Jesus is tested by being presented a woman accused of adultery and asked if she should be stoned in accordance with ancient biblical law. This is where Jesus said his famous line that only those without sin should cast stones.
                          But before that, instead of confronting the woman or her vigilantes, instead of being direct or candidly compassionate, Jesus turned away and drew in the sand. What he drew is lost to time, but the action had the effect of distracting the mob.

                          Such a lesson has not been lost on Chick-fil-A: distractions work. Can they get an amen?
                          Last edited by harrymsmarkle; 11-20-2019, 04:50 PM.
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