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Mibahlzitch posted...

If you think there's no ethical consumption and that bothers you, why not try to fight it? One person can't fight every battle, but we don't have to. It doesn't take everyone to pressure a corporation, just enough people.
This is why we got unions and why corporate politics is pushing back so hard against these in the past few decades.

If we tell you Cick Fila is unethical and you reply "McDonald's is also unethical" this shouldn't make you feel like its given you an excuse to eat Chick Fila, you should be protesting McDonalds. Making capitalism more ethical is a process, don't give up because there's no magic want to wave to make it all go away at once. Frankly, you're right about McDonalds employees being underpaid, I'd support you enthusiastically if you were fighting that rather than fighting people trying to force Chick Fila to shape up.

Besides, eating out at fast food places is hardly an essential habit you can't curtail to make a point.

Your point is entirely valid and I don't really have a good reply.

I guess maybe part of it is just that I don't feel empowered enough to where people would care about my objections - or the broader queer community at large - when it comes to where they donate. Hell, is it even really a queer issue or so much just that the system is too pervasive and greedy that we're beyond the point in really instilling change?

I guess that's just me falling to doomerisms though.

You've given me something to think about. Thanks.

Though to be clear on one thing:

I'd support you enthusiastically if you were fighting that rather than fighting people trying to force Chick Fila to shape up.

I'm not fighting people trying to force CFA to shape up, or at least am not trying to. I want them to shape up. I was moreso just objecting to the implication made that going there makes you homophobic.