Chick-fil-A boycotts coming to a campus near you
HuffPo is very excited about this. How about you?
Would love to get reports from college students at to whether kicking Chick-fil-A off campus (like happened at Davidson) is gaining traction, or just another waste of hot air.
College students around the country do not want their waffle fries served on campus from a company they perceive as being against LGBT rights.
At least 30 colleges and universities have had students start petitions to remove the fast food chain Chick-fil-A from their campus, and many of the protests are popping up in states considered to be relatively conservative.
There are more than 500 signatures on a petition to close the Chick-fil-A at Appalachian State University, in Boone, N.C. — a state which recently voted to amend its constitution to prohibit same-sex marriages. Students and faculty members at the University of Southern Mississippi are collecting signatures to have the Chick-fil-A on their campus removed….
Only 28 percent of college students consider themselves “liberal,” but more than 70 percent say they support same-sex marriage rights, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
There have been some pro-Chick-fil-A petitions as well, but the numbers of signatures on them are generally smaller. For example, a pro-Chick-fil-A petition at the University of Louisville has only 9 signatures as of press time.
Chick-fil-A Protests Reach College Campuses In Conservative States (HuffPost College)
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There’s a Chick-Fil-A on my alma mater’s campus, in the food court, but…I doubt it will be going away. For one reason, the university is on the border of two cities, one of which relies heavily on the white-collar side of the auto industry (Oakland University is only a mile or so away from the Chrysler Tech Center, its HQ), the other of which is a relatively high-income city. So the loony lib presence there isn’t nearly as strong as it could have been.
Hard to believe that less than 30% of students on average self-define as liberal if this act gains traction. It’s one thing to protest and not buy from Chick-fil-A, it’s another to want to impose your will on their ability to do business. In essence, their progressive view would be, “If I don’t want them to succeed in business, I don’t want YOU to support them either!!”.
I wonder if the restaurant could simply open its doors on the edge of each of these protesting campuses. There for all to see. A nice finger in the eye. Still giving those who don’t agree a chance to buy, it being a free country and all.
Being and obnoxious loudmouth (and having a completely corrupted ‘news’ media shilling for you) has seemed to work very well as a strategy for the left — it has created a perception they are the majority.
Gotta stand up to these clowns — or don’t complain when you wind up being ruled by them.
I went to the Davidson web site and read their constitution which clearly states that Jesus is the word (“marriage joins one man and one woman”) and wrote to their Dean and office of communication, wondering how this action allowing students to violate both the college’s consitution and the US constitution can be allowed. At first I heard back immediately wanting to know where I had rec’d this information. I sent links, and more links, and more links and never heard back.
I suggested that the Davidson students might want to spend some time actually studying these constitutions and that administration and faculty need to reexamine their college mission…if there is no attempt on their part to defend either the colleges consitution or the US constitution from tyranny of a small number of campus bullies.
Tune in for Sandra “Fluck’s” speech at the DNC, where she is going to urge a protest by Democrat men to “Fil-A-Chick”