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An Open Letter to the Participants of “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day”

Posted on by Ryan Scott in Submitted for Your Approval | 18 Comments

To all those who participated in Wednesday’s “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day”: I hope you enjoyed your chicken. Enjoy the taste of your supposed participation in the democratic process while it lasts. I suppose you think that you have won some mighty battle.  In purely monetary terms, “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day” was indeed a day of record profits for Cathy’s company, though whether one single day will be enough to offset the long-term losses of a boycott remains to be seen. But at the end of the day, you have changed absolutely nothing.  All you have done is prove that rich CEOs can get away with saying bigoted things and donating millions of dollars to known hate groups.  You’re proud of yourselves for that, I suppose. But beyond the 24 hours of August 1, that matters almost not at all.  In a week, no one will remember your posturing, your bumper-sticker rhetoric, and …

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