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**Frownland** · 06-28-2015, 04:48 PM

The whole Chic-Fil-A thing is just a big marketing ploy. The ****storm that ensued after the announcement is what helped make them more of a household name. People who would never have gone there lined up and helped the company make millions.

**Janszoon** · 06-28-2015, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

true story: my sister runs a chic fil-a in texas

and she also attended my cousin's lesbian wedding

to act like the company as a whole is some anti-gay cartel is just typical liberal non-wisdom... basically what it boils down to is the ceo/leadership of the company is openly christian and conservative, and rich, and thus gets to throw his money and speech around as he pleases, and his employees don't typically question this because they enjoy having jobs

Chick-Fil-A Agrees To Cease Funding To Anti-Gay Organizations, Chicago LGBT Group Claims

and if you're going to try to take the high and mighty "don't ever support any organizations or companies that have leaders who do things that you might disagree with or find unethical" type of stance then i can guarantee you're just a typical naive commoner that doesn't realize what kind of world they actually live and participate in on a day to day basis

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 06-28-2015, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

The whole Chic-Fil-A thing is just a big marketing ploy. The ****storm that ensued after the announcement is what helped make them more of a household name. People who would never have gone there lined up and helped the company make millions.

that's one way of approaching it... i have to wonder how accurate that is though

i honestly am inclined to think the ceo is genuine in his convictions. think about the fact that they have never opened on sundays. this is something that went on for years before the whole anti-gay spiel came about. think about all the money they must lose from that policy over the years. to act like the rich/elite are above having any sort of ideals/principles and everything is some clever machiavellian type of maneuver for power and money is to give them more credit than they really deserve, imo

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

can you be more specific please and tell me who's argument i'm straw manning and how?

**Frownland** · 06-28-2015, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

that's one way of approaching it... i have to wonder how accurate that is though

i honestly am inclined to think the ceo is genuine in his convictions. think about the fact that they have never opened on sundays. this is something that went on for years before the whole anti-gay spiel came about. think about all the money they must lose from that policy over the years. to act like the rich/elite are above having any sort of ideals/principles and everything is some clever machiavellian type of maneuver for power and money is to give them more credit than they really deserve, imo

There's no reason why it can't be both. Why not just make a fun little Twitter post if that's how the ceo feels instead of declaring it for the whole company? Their profits made a massive spike as anyone who knows the power of bigotry could have easily predicted. The CEO is still a businessman and I find it hard to believe that anything like this could be genuine and lack an ulterior motive.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 06-28-2015, 05:24 PM

i'll say that he most likely knows the political climate is such that he can safely get away with taking that stance... otherwise if he put his company in jeapardy over his own opinions he'd be a bad businessman.

but as to why not just make a twitter post: well, assuming you had some sort of genuine convictions/principles and you had the wealth and power to act on them or organize your company around them... would you really just stick to a little twitter post?

**Frownland** · 06-28-2015, 05:26 PM

I guess we'll never know. It's just when a businessman does something that results in more than a 2% profit increase, genuine is the last word I would use to describe it.

Chula Vista · 06-28-2015, 05:50 PM

Not opening on Sundays is a genius marketing ploy. Their Saturday and Monday sales are off the charts. Brilliant bigot CEO.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 06-28-2015, 05:53 PM

lol.. that just sounds dumb to me. i guarantee you the amount of profit they make from people who are motivated to eat there just because they close on sundays vs the profit they could be making if they just kept it running on sundays doesn't add up to a smart strategy for them to limit their business hours like that

Chula Vista · 06-28-2015, 05:57 PM

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lol.. that just sounds dumb to me.

Yup. Dumb. That's why the franchise is doing gangster business all over. If I didn't hate them so much I'd be tempted to buy one.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 06-28-2015, 06:04 PM

people aren't going to chic-fil-a cause they don't open on sundays... lol. that policy they had long before any of this anti-gay controversy popped up.

they might go for the anti-gay sentiments, but if chic-fil-a decided to open on sundays those same people would probably be there

06-28-2015, 04:48 PM	#161 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	The whole Chic-Fil-A thing is just a big marketing ploy. The ***storm that ensued after the announcement is what helped make them more of a household name. People who would never have gone there lined up and helped the company make millions. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

06-28-2015, 05:26 PM	#166 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I guess we'll never know. It's just when a businessman does something that results in more than a 2% profit increase, genuine is the last word I would use to describe it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

06-28-2015, 05:50 PM	#167 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Not opening on Sundays is a genius marketing ploy. Their Saturday and Monday sales are off the charts. Brilliant bigot CEO. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

06-28-2015, 05:24 PM	#165 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	i'll say that he most likely knows the political climate is such that he can safely get away with taking that stance... otherwise if he put his company in jeapardy over his own opinions he'd be a bad businessman. but as to why not just make a twitter post: well, assuming you had some sort of genuine convictions/principles and you had the wealth and power to act on them or organize your company around them... would you really just stick to a little twitter post?

06-28-2015, 05:53 PM	#168 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	lol.. that just sounds dumb to me. i guarantee you the amount of profit they make from people who are motivated to eat there just because they close on sundays vs the profit they could be making if they just kept it running on sundays doesn't add up to a smart strategy for them to limit their business hours like that

06-28-2015, 06:04 PM	#170 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	people aren't going to chic-fil-a cause they don't open on sundays... lol. that policy they had long before any of this anti-gay controversy popped up. they might go for the anti-gay sentiments, but if chic-fil-a decided to open on sundays those same people would probably be there