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[–] gorlak@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head for a few years: Christian Chicken Offset Charity. It would be an app that would notify you “You appear to be patronizng a bigoted establishment, do you wish to make a $1 donation to Charity X to offset?”

Could work for Hobby Lobby, In ‘n Out, etc, too.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It would be so much easier to just not shop at those places.

[–] vind@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

But if you didn't know about it in advance, that system would be useful

[–] gorlak@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree, but:

  • People are weak when it comes to comfort food
  • Having this would create dialog about the problem at hand
  • Propping up a successful charity like this might cause corporate to question its policy, whereas a boycott results in hard to measure fiscal impact.
[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Dan Cathy has no reason to question his biggotry. The conservatives in the United States made that clear by giving the chain record profits after he gave his speech, and after it came out that the restaurants direct profits were being donated to anti-lgbtq groups, including those that support conversation therapy.

Heres an excerpt of what he had to say: "we're inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage. And I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude that thinks we have the audacity to redefine what marriage is all about."

People like this need to shut up, or go die in a ditch somewhere so the rest of the world can see progress. The people that eat at this chain will always earn my contempt.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

This isn't how reality works. Offset is basically babble. What actually happens is company A does something actually harmful like poison the environment, pave some wetlands, burn down the forest and plant corn and then your offset goes to pay people with masters degrees to THINK about what they might do about assholes ruining the world.

On net assholes with masters degrees have houses in the burbs and the fucking damage is still done. If you want to offset harm you actually have to decrease harm not pretend to be offsetting it.