politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
I don’t get the outrage, but Cracker Barrel is going to rollover and keep the old logo now.
Cracker barrel has a pretty long history of being a racist company and they know where their racist profits lie.
Care to elaborate a little on the racism angle a bit?
Not that I doubt it, but with the amount of research I'm willing to put into it (basically skimming the character barrel Wikipedia article, and a couple quick Google searches) I couldn't turn up a whole lot of details.
I did find one class action lawsuit accusing them of racial discrimination, but without diving too deep into the court records, a lot of it kind of looked like more of a "some restaurants had shitty, racist managers" than a top-down "this whole company is racist" kind of thing. Not that it excuses the company for that, they're responsible for hiring decent managers, but unless you're going to have someone from corporate monitoring operations at every restaurant all day every day looking out for that, I could definitely see a lot of it flying under the radar.
If we want to talk LBGTQ discrimination though, yeah, there's some outright shitty stuff at the corporate level in their past. Although (again, from just some very brief and not-at-all in-depth research) it does look like they've straightened that out pretty well over the last decade or two (and also, let's not take for granted how fast a lot of people have come around on a lot of LGBTQ issues, at the time that stuff was happening, a lot of the country still hadn't come around to the idea of accepting gay marriage, for example. It doesn't make those policies right, but it was more in-line with the country as a whole at the time)
Dude, that one class action lawsuit didn't just appear one day, that basically a whole bunch of individual lawsuits forming racist Voltron. Plus that lawsuit involved people across 16 states, you don't get that type of crap unless you've got rot at the top.
Also all the other major litigations including the DOJ, pre-fascist days, https://allaboutlawyer.com/cracker-barrel-racism-lawsuit-settlement-federal-agencies-investigate-cracker-barrel-for-employment-discrimination/
Let's not forget this little gem
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cracker-barrel-apologizes-noose-shaped-decoration-inside-connecticut-store-n1247568
And man, in minority circles I run with over the decades it's pretty well known that Cracker Barrel is racist AF. Hell I've experienced first hand in two different states this racist behavior from this company and why I haven't set foot in one for over two decades now.
I figured that conservatives only get this riled up over racist stuff. Just wasn’t familiar.