Time to take a look at some of the headlines in the right-wing garbage media to see what’s going on today in their parallel universe.
Tag yourself: I’m Virtue Signaling Chicken.
It’s clear that strange things are afoot at the BK Lounge. But somehow I suspect that these headlines might be a eensy weensy bit misleading. I’m pretty sure that BK isn’t doing “child sex change” surgery in the back by the dumpsters. And I don’t even know what a “homosexualist” even is.
Let’s turn for a moment to the reality based news media to see what’s axtually going on. Here’s USA Today offering an slightly clearer explanation:
After renewed calls were made over social media to boycott Chick-fil-A, Burger King took it as an opportunity to show its solidarity with the LGBTQ community.
Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy was identified last week by The Daily Beast as a donor to the National Christian Charitable Foundation, which has a history of funding opposition to The Equality Act.
Burger King, which recently launched the Ch’King sandwich, tweeted Thursday it will donate 40 cents for every chicken sandwich sold in June (Pride month) up to $250,000, or 625,000 sandwiches, to The Human Rights Campaign.
Ah. The Human Rights Campaign does not support “child sex change” operations. It’s a respected LGBTQ advocacy group.
“This is a community we love dearly and have proudly supported over the years, so we couldn’t miss an opportunity to take action and help shine a light on the important conversation happening,” a Burger King spokesperson said in an email statement to USA TODAY.
The tweet seemed to be aimed at Chick-fil-A by saying it would continue its donations “even on Sundays,” when the restaurant is closed.
The right-wing garbage press offers up stories that only loosely correlate with reality. Information Liberation — which indeed has largely liberated itself of information — went after BK and the Human Rights Campaign in an article that seemed to be just a little bit tinged with antisemitism.
Burger King under the leadership of CEO Daniel Schwartz have begun donating 40 cents for every sale of its new chicken sandwich to a radical LGBT lobby group that supports child sex changes, the drugging of children with opposite-sex hormones and Drag Queen Story Hours.
Not Drag Queen Story Hours!
According to Eugene Delgaudio, president of a group called Public Advocate,
Burger King seems to have announced that their Chicken Sandwiches are homosexual chicken sandwiches by promising to donate 250,000 dollars to the homosexual lobby. …
Don’t support the gay lobby, homosexual chickens or donations to the homosexual lobby and avoid burger king.
Red State, meanwhile, insinuated that Burger King is racist because it launched the new sandwich during Black History Month.
Burger King announced its new chicken sandwich in February and I’m sure the fact that this was Black History Month played absolutely no part in this decision. …
There are, of course, more sensible critiques of “woke capitalism.” Just don’t go looking for them in the right-wing garbage press.
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Wouldn’t “homosexual chickens” be fowl who are sexually interested in their own gender?
Ah, look at me expecting the RW to understand grammar. They don’t understand anything except hate.
I’d be more supportive of Burger King if they dropped that “King” character. He’s always creeped me out. But not as much as the RW does, so I might buy a chicken sammitch.
It’s a pretty good sandwich. It’s even better since it’s making the right wingers so pissy.
I have only rarely ever eaten there, for two reasons: their penchant for screwing up burger orders (does nobody except Harvey’s understand the meaning of the word “plain”?!) and that time a few years ago when they blitzed the airwaves with annoying ads that featured a rolling BK logo and pop-up cartoon characters appearing OVER THE FUCKING TV SHOW YOU WERE WATCHING instead of during the three-minute ad breaks where all of the advertising is SUPPOSED to be confined. (Other businesses also sometimes advertise in this atrocious manner. Every one of them gets a month-long boycott from me, or more.)
Meta: David, could you please get rid of the “cache-control: max-age=600” header that you’ve added to all of this site’s pages a day or two ago? It makes catching up a MUCH slower and more tedious process, and it’s got to be costing you in extra server traffic as well. Frankly, I’m somewhat baffled; you experimented with that once before, a month or two ago, and then reverted to normal. Why reintroduce something you’d clearly decided against?
To doubly annoy them, there’s now a fully vegan Burger King in Germany. No doubt all part of Joe Biden’s globalist plot to steal their cowmeat.
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/worlds-first-plant-based-burger-king-opens-doors-flexitarianism-goes-mainstream/
(I’m still not a big fan of Burger King though.)
I’ll pass thanks – not a huge fan of chicken. Only time I go into a fast food place anyways is if someone needs the loo, and McD’s fries are much nicer as a courtesy buy.
Surplus, I don’t know what this is; I haven’t changed anything about the blog recently. Where is this appearing?
BK’s food has declined somewhat to me over the years, but I’ll never not enjoy watching right-wingers flip their shit.
GSS ex-noob – I agree about the “King.” Plastic and creepy af. Leave it to the right fringe to get hot and bothered over chicken sandwiches. Almost as heart-attack inducing for them as not saying Merry Christmas or keeping your hat on during the national anthem, I’m sure.
David, this may just be on my device, but your comment and your quoted text by Surplus appear as a very very pale green rather than black.
Anyone else seeing this?
@ bookworm in hijab
David’s comment is regular white on black to me (Safari 14.0.3).
One thing I do have is that when I type in the comments box the text is very light gray on white. Anyone else have that? It’s not a big problem or anything. Just curious.
@Bookworm: looks green to me too (Firefox 89.0 for Windows)
Ah, if I go to daytime mode; the comment is green.
Maybe it’s a way of highlighting the blog author?
I don’t eat out much and have been to Burger King once in… maybe ten years?
And me too for David in light colors. Firefox Focus on a cellphone here.
Edit: Also, David, I find it slightly unfair that you apparently have set the max age here to 600. I expect you’ll be hearing from some vampire’s lawyer in the near future.
@.45
Nah, any vampires still alive would have gotten over that “suing everyone I don’t like” stage by that time in their lives.
Vampires that out themselves don’t tend to last long.
And yet the hair straighteners don’t make me straight.
Is it made with real homosexual chickens?
While it is good that Burger King is getting onboard with plant based menus, as a vegan Marxist myself I don’t really support Plant Base Capitalism, ie: giving my money to a company that will use it to slaughter more animals. Still annoying the Usual People is pretty entertaining.
What’s the problem with homosexual chickens? All of the eggs we eat are unfertilized anyway and most roosters get killed as chicks.
> .45
Maybe Mister Slant would be interested in that. Time is not the essence for him.
I’ve been getting that too, using the site with the screen on dark mode as I usually do, and it’s hard to read. Oddly, when I switched modes just now while in the middle of commenting (to see if the comment text would go green while on light mode, as described) for once I got a nice legible comment text of white on black, hooray! Not that it makes the actual content of my comments any more intelligible, but hey ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m fairly sure that “homosexualist” (and the related “transgenderistć) is used to mean” person who chooses to do and/or advocate homosexual sex acts, tries to recruit others to do the same” and the implication that there’s no such thing as “a homosexual person” just people who decide to do homosexual actions.
@GSS ex-noob, @Katherine the Adequate
Totally agree about King Burger . . . King. He’s gross, creepy, and makes my skin crawl.
“Homosexual chicken sandwiches” is a phrase that a grown-ass adult wrote on the internet to share with the world.
40 cents per $4.49 sandwich is just under 9%. Any donation is technically better than no donation, I guess, but 9% is fairly insulting
Oh no, not the homosexual chicken sandwiches!
@Elaine the Witch – and here I thought I was bi from listening to *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” as a kid. 😛