Chick-Fil-A Racism not OK
At least 3/4 of an applause to Chick-Fil-A for firing an employee who used derogatory terms when doling out receipts to Asians at the US Irvine location. Two customers were provided receipts with Ching and Chong as the names and not even asked their real names. There are a few interesting things to note about the article.
The first is the reaction of the customers who were offended. I applaud them for not being passive and actually calling attention to this issue to the manager. Sometimes I wonder though whether being irate and loud are more effective though in this case they got their point across and taken seriously.
Shifting focus, maybe I’m reading way too much into the reaction, but Chick-Fil-A seems to excuse the behavior as stupid, young-person behavior. I do applaud the decision to fire the person, but there does seem to be some downplay of the offense in their wording. I always try to imagine if this had happened to an African American whether reactions and wording would be exactly the same. I generally find that it’s more of an offense to be racist to African Americans than to Asians in this country. They should both be equally unacceptable.
Full article here: Chick-Fil-A Racism
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