Best of Corporate Pride Month Items - Gotta get me some of that demographic money, right boys?

God damn the Burger king account is more schizophrenic than any other corporate account.
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Burger King trolls Chick-fil-A with LGBTQ+ donations
By David Goldman, CNN Business
New York (CNN Business)Burger King is making a statement during pride month: It's trying to get a leg up in the chicken sandwich wars by taking a not-so-subtle dig at rival Chick-fil-A's fraught history with the LGBTQ+ community.
The fast-food chain tweeted last week that it would donate 40 cents to the Human Rights Campaign for every Ch'King chicken sandwich sold in June. The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization.
Burger King added it will make those donations "even on Sunday," tweeting the eyes emoji. Chick-fil-A, because of its devout Christian ownership, closes its restaurants on Sundays.
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Chick-fil-A and the LGBTQ+ community​

Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy said in 2012 that the company supports "the biblical definition of the family unit." In a 2018 interview with a local Atlanta TV station, Cathy reiterated his position on same-sex marriage but said he's not anti-gay.
The company has since tried to distance itself from its less-than-supportive stance toward the LGBTQ+ community.
For example, in 2019, Chick-fil-A made major changes to its charitable foundation, ending donations to two organizations that have been criticized for being anti-LGBTQ+ — the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Both organizations have taken controversial stands on homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
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What's Burger King up to?​

Burger King is trying to make up ground in the chicken sandwich wars. Popeyes struck gold with its chicken sandwich in 2019, which sent customers flocking to the fast-food chain to get their hands (and mouths) on one.
Since then, the quick-serve restaurant industry has fallen over itself to get in on the fried chicken sandwich action.
Wendy's (WEN), McDonald's (MCD), KFC, Shake Shack (SHAK) and many other competitors have blown up their staid chicken sandwiches for new ones or developed additional flavorful menu items. Americans have been eating more chicken and less beef the last few years, and low-growth, low-margin, low-loyalty fast-food companies are desperate for any leg up over the competition.
Burger King first announced in February its new chicken sandwich, served on a potato bun with pickles and a savory sauce. To help distinguish the product, Burger King has since renamed the sandwich the "Ch'King" (it had originally been referred to as simply the hand-breaded crispy chicken sandwich).
Although Burger King is one of thousands of brands to celebrate Pride Month with deals, the timing happens to coincide with a previously announced Ch'King promotion: To raise awareness and drive sales, Burger King said last month it would give free Whoppers to any customers who order a Ch'King through Burger King's website or app from June 3 until June 20.
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"We'll show them that we're the most caring global-conglomerate fast food corporation! Buy our sandwich, and we'll donate for fags! ...Oh, incidentally, the prices of our food are going to go up. Please understand."
 
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"We'll show them that we're the most caring global-conglomerate fast food corporation! Buy our sandwich, and we'll donate for fags! ...Oh, incidentally, the prices of our food are going to go up. Please understand."
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Aaaaaanddd.... In the PROUD TRADITION of United Way, the donated proceeds purchase asspatty Corporate/United Way charity formals invites (that you, the filthy plebs are NOT invited to attend). There will be many circle jerk sessions in overpriced formalwear along with a shitty corporate banner proclaiming Burger King (and not you unwashed dipshits who actually donated) as sooper altruistic "caring" company who PERSONALLY (again, with your money, dipshits, not ours, lol) donated our last Widow's Mite to LGBBQWTF community.

Friendly advice: If you work for a business or manufacturer that performatively strong arm bullies you into participating in the yearly United Way fund.
1. Give your money directly to an organization. United Way does not allow you to earmark where your money goes.
2. See point one. United Way, like Goodwill, is infested with shitbags taking six figure salaries on YOUR dime.
3. When you ARE being strongarmed, put an EMPTY SET--or NULL SET in the space. There have been real incidents in the past of people tasked with passing out the corporate cards and collecting them, putting (I shit you not) a number in front of the zero. They are under extreme pressure by corporate to rake in the donations so the plant manager and CEO can do hookerz and blow at da big formal on your dime.
 
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Crossposting from the Tess Holiday thread:

I’m proud to be a #kiehlspartner — $2 from each sale of their Pride Ultra Facial Cream benefits Trevor Project!🌈✨#kiehlspride #kiehlsus @kiehls
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And here's the product itself:
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I especially like the specter of the AIDS crisis making his guest appearance.
 
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JambledUpWords said:
Apparently there’s a new Pride flag now:
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It just keeps getting uglier and uglier
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Just ditch the whole rainbow at this point then and stick with the ugly ass Nepal-esque triangular flag, since these people clearly think it doesn't serve its purpose "enough".

Or actually, maybe keep adding shit so the all consuming arrow eventually leaves nothing but 2 smidges of rainbow on either side and a bunch of mis-matched colours in the middle. That would be more entertaining.
 
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JambledUpWords said:
Apparently there’s a new Pride flag now:
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It just keeps getting uglier and uglier
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I thought it was bad enough that they kept tacking on more letters to the acronym any time some genderspecial decided they didn't fit into any of the existing categories. Now they're plastering the rainbow flag with ugly, out-of-place additions that dilute any message it originally was supposed to convey. First they shoved in black and brown because minorities are a sexuality now I guess (sorry white gays, you're not important), then they threw in the uwu soft pastel pink and blue and white for the troon crowd. And now they're trying to add a giant bright yellow triangle with a purple circle for the intersex crowd, a group that is at most 0.05% of the population and mostly just tries to live life as a particular gender and not call attention to being different.

Even setting aside that race and gender have nothing to do with sexuality in the first place, from a graphic design standpoint, how do they not see that this shit is just so damn ugly? The rainbow flag is simple; despite using six very different colors, the rainbow is a common motif across cultures, so they work together in that way. But when you cover up over half of it with a bunch of other lines of random colors, it becomes busy. And in much the same way as the acronym keeps getting longer to the point that nobody can even remember the proper order beyond the first few letters, continuing to make changes to the rainbow flag will only invite others to demand that they be represented too, until you can't even see the damn rainbow anymore.

Clown world never fails to disappoint, I guess. But dammit, I want off.
 
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JambledUpWords said:
Apparently there’s a new Pride flag now:
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It just keeps getting uglier and uglier
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It almost feels like the people making these designs are seeing how far they can push it before people just straight up say "no" by making the ugliest design choices possible. Every time I look at this monstrosity I'm always reminded of "Graphic design is my Passion" styled joke, except this one they're trying to put out as serious.
 
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King Dead said:
I thought it was bad enough that they kept tacking on more letters to the acronym any time some genderspecial decided they didn't fit into any of the existing categories. Now they're plastering the rainbow flag with ugly, out-of-place additions that dilute any message it originally was supposed to convey. First they shoved in black and brown because minorities are a sexuality now I guess (sorry white gays, you're not important), then they threw in the uwu soft pastel pink and blue and white for the troon crowd. And now they're trying to add a giant bright yellow triangle with a purple circle for the intersex crowd, a group that is at most 0.05% of the population and mostly just tries to live life as a particular gender and not call attention to being different.

Even setting aside that race and gender have nothing to do with sexuality in the first place, from a graphic design standpoint, how do they not see that this shit is just so damn ugly? The rainbow flag is simple; despite using six very different colors, the rainbow is a common motif across cultures, so they work together in that way. But when you cover up over half of it with a bunch of other lines of random colors, it becomes busy. And in much the same way as the acronym keeps getting longer to the point that nobody can even remember the proper order beyond the first few letters, continuing to make changes to the rainbow flag will only invite others to demand that they be represented too, until you can't even see the damn rainbow anymore.

Clown world never fails to disappoint, I guess. But dammit, I want off.
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One thing that annoys me is that it feels like a bunch of people who want top billing over something that was pretty much for everyone. Not every POC is black or brown (see the East Asians for example) as well.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Or the woke could make up a flag with all colors representing every possible identity, real or imagined.

>inb4 that's still somehow "problematic"
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If we actually get to the point where the flag just becomes a gradient, then that'd be hilarious

Although I'm kind of curious if they can make the flag all holographic like with trading cards. Sure THAT could be all inclusive if you look at it at the right angle?
 
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