CHARITY vs. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY is the key to understanding what happened to Chick-fil-A donations. Here's an excerpt from the article that explains it. Link to article at bottom: ..............................
Chick-fil-A’s announcement that it was dumping the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which have come under attack by gay activist groups, caught Christian fans of the fast food chain by surprise. It shouldn’t have if they had been paying attention to CFA’s corporate structure.
The donations were coming out of the Chick-fil-A Foundation. The Executive Director of the CFA Foundation is Rodney D. Bullard, a former White House fellow and Assistant US Attorney. Some may have mistaken him for a conservative because he was a fellow in the Bush Administration, but he was an Obama donor, and, more recently, had donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign while at Chick-fil-A.
Like many corporations, Chick-fil-A branded its charitable giving as a form of social responsibility. Bullard became its Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility. Unlike charity, corporate social responsibility is a leftist endeavor to transform corporations into the political arms of radical causes. Like other formerly conservative corporations, Chick-fil-A had made the fundamental error of adopting the language and the infrastructure of its leftist peers. And that made what happened entirely inevitable.
In an interview with Business Insider earlier this year, Bullard emphasized that the Chick-fil-A Foundation had a "higher calling than any political or cultural war." The foundation boss was preparing the way for the shakeup that was coming in the fall. Even while he claimed that the CFA Foundation had a higher calling than a political or cultural war, he was preparing to accommodate the Left’s cultural war.
Bullard would have been seen as a safe bet. The CFA Foundation and the Christian groups it supported were so entangled that Bullard serves on the Salvation Army’s National Advisory Board and was on the National Board of Trustees of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. But Bullard’s vision was not that of charity, but of corporate social responsibility. And the two things are fundamentally different.
Charity helps people. Corporate social responsibility is virtue signaling by capitalists to anti-capitalists. Unlike charity, corporate social responsibility isn’t about helping people, but ticking off ideological and identity politics boxes like diversity and the environment. If people accidentally get helped in the process of helping a corporation signal its membership in the politically correct creed, that can’t be helped.
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Agreed, taking in that cup into meetings after lunch isn't as fun anymore.
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The only way to explain is it is they are actually greedy, and want inside those airports and schools at any cost. There is a ring of them around Portland, and they would love to come in from the burbs. In the process they are validating religious discrimination.
I can see their high-minded intention of reaching across the political divide, but the left operate from a philosophy of infiltrate and subvert. They will, very slowly, destroy from within. See many examples in Boy/Girl scouts, education, the military and other Fortune 1000 companies.
This is sad. And by what you are saying, it will only get worse.
From a business standpoint, it didn't make sense to cave to them, since they have made a lot of money after refusing to bend the knee earlier. I remember standing in a long line that went outside the store to support them like, 10 years ago? It was a while ago.
RIP Chick-Fil-A. You will be missed.
"Now you can get a side of SJW with your chicken sandwich."
Exactly! And it's the switch from donating as charity (which actually helps "people") to donating under the leftist guise of "social responsibility" that changes everything. Virtue signalling always leads down a dark path. Always.