Official Chick-fil-A Thread

[opebo]

Chick'fila is a growing franchise that creates jobs. How amazing that some radicals would try to bash a good business.

Dude, the Nazis were a growing franchise in Germany in the 1930s.

[opebo]

Corporations support things you don't agree with all the time; it's like people have different beliefs or something. If you actually boycotted every company who did something you didn't like, you'd have to make everything yourself.

This is another good argument against capitalism - instead of having society controlled by these unaccountable baronies, why not have those functions performed by the State, accountable at the ballot box, etc.

[opebo]

I think boycotting a company that donates millions to organisations that funds 'ex-gay' shams is a sensible thing to do if you have 21st Century sensibilities.

This is sensible, but what Chicago is doing is quite different. If a person has an offensive position and another person disagrees a boycott is an acceptable means of protest against their organization. If a person has an offensive position and government official chooses to discriminate against their organization on a neutral matter like zoning or subdivision that is not an acceptable form of protest.

Dude, its not 'protest', it is the democratic process.  The people, through their elected representatives, don't want him to sell his chicken in their community.  This is precisely the converse of the fashion by which the rich have a voice (through their money, paying for media), while the poor are silenced.  Here, the Commons act to counter the overweaning power of a money-elite.

[opebo]

One thing I like about you opebo is you don't even bother with consistency.  After all, I presume you don't intend to stop complaining about your worries that the Thai people, through their elected representatives, will decide they no longer want to sell their girls in their communities.

No, I will not.  Obviously it is an issue of personal freedom and feminism that they be free from interference with their provision of services (and their winning of handsome incomes!)

Another way of putting this is - democracy is obviously better than plutocracy, but personal physical freedom (to take drugs for example, or have sex with whomever you like) is more important than democracy.

[opebo]

Yes and no. For somebody who accepts elements of the Marxist critique, you've always been remarkably (willfully?) oblivious as to the circumstances under which many women come to prostitution.

Yeah, because that's mostly a fiction concocted by prudes.  They don't come to it any differently than anyone comes to any toil.

[opebo]

Lets not forget that while chain-food is junk, fried chicken is not junk.