Thursday, July 26, 2012


Rahm Emanuel’s dangerous free speech attack -

"You can shove your over-rated chicken sandwich up
your ass and stay the fuck out of my city."
 - Rahm Emanuel [paraphrased, by me]
Greenwald writes:



Greenwald, sagely, points out:




[Update 7/27/12]




  1. Intellectually I agree with you, they should not be banned. But discrimination makes my blood boil, so I hope he succeeds in driving Chick-fil-A from Chicago. Since my Congressman is gay, I’m pretty sure they will not be welcome in RI either.

    1. They might find a warm welcome in Cranston! :)

      I don't generally worry about the personal bigotry of the owners of a business when I'm deciding which business to patronize, UNLESS they have made their bigotry a part of the way they operate the business. The founder of Chick-fil-A has stepped over this line, and so I'll not be eating any more of their crappy chicken sandwiches. (Honestly, the only condiment on the sandwich is a pickle?)

      Should we be able to legislate them out of certain areas? If they are using discriminatory hiring practices, then sure. Or maybe we would have to power to put in local laws that restaurants must be open seven days a week, so then they wouldn't be willing to follow that. I'm not sure that their giving money to hate groups should be a legal reason to shut them down, but since their hateful idiocy affects more of their business practices than that, we can look for other more legitimate ways to keep them out.

  2. Well written and I agree with what you say. If you want to stop someone from discriminating, and there efforts to ban other peoples rights, it seems hypocritical to then go and attempt to ban them. But just attempting to or threatening to ban them can give those people a look into what they do to others.

    1. Thanks, Steven, I appreciate you stopping in and leaving a comment.

      I wonder if the founder or current CEO of C-F-A are capable of that kind of empathy? They would have acknowledge the common humanity of those whose rights they seek to curtail, and I suspect their religious indoctrination makes it impossible for them to see LGBT folks as anything but hopeless sinners.

      We see all the time how quick (privileged, entitled) Christians are to claim they are being persecuted ("Contraception is a War On Our Religious Liberty!" The word 'holiday' is a War On Christmas!"), but are unable to see anything wrong with persecuting those who don't share their beliefs or sexual inclinations.


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