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It’s Pride month! Corporations around the country, realizing that LGBTQ+ people also buy stuff and are a part of families that buy stuff, have been showing their support. The “anti-woke” crowds, always crying about “cancel culture,” have been spending the past few weeks trying to cancel all of their favorite mass-produced products. Companies ranging from Bud Light to Target have been subjected to the Puritan hordes of Republican-inspired LGBTQ+ phobias.
Now, self-appointed conservative watchdogs across the Twittersphere are going after Cracker Barrel for going woke. Yes, the same Cracker Barrel that was sued by the NAACP for discriminatory practices multiple times and settled in 2004. The same Cracker Barrel that in 2013 was pressured into continuing to sell the merchandise of bigot Phil Robertson, of television’s “Duck Dynasty” fame. According to the conservative Texas Family Project, Cracker Barrel “has fallen.” In fact, they have “caved to the mob.” What mob? The company’s Facebook account released a post featuring a picture of a Cracker Barrel porch, replete with their standard rocking chairs, and one rainbow-painted chair, with the caption, “We are excited to celebrate Pride Month with our employees and guests. Everyone is always welcome at our table (and our rainbow rocker). Happy Pride!”
Cracker Barrel now joins the historically conservative Chick-fil-A, which became the subject of right-wing ire when it was discovered that for more than two years, the company has employed an executive position that oversees diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. And while Cracker Barrel is one of the larger Southern fast-casual chains, it doesn’t break the top ten in the U.S. Even Chick-fil-A is only the fifth-largest fast-food chain in the United States, according to career and jobs portal Zippia. There are nine other fast-food chains available to these red-blooded patriots who refuse to grab food from an institution that has gone woke!
Or are there?
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