We were past due for a fabricated outrage cycle against Chick-fil-A. Thankfully, Twitter excels in creating fabricated outrage cycles.
“Chick-fil-A is under fire for a tweet that social media users said called out a Twitter user’s race,” NBC News reported. Why this was deemed relevant for a major media outlet to report on is anyone’s guess, but it also turns out that the “social media users” being relied on for media content were wrong. Who could have guessed?
The racism nontroversy kicked into gear when a Twitter user asked why Chick-fil-A had a grilled spicy deluxe chicken sandwich but no spicy chicken nuggets. The fast-food chain replied in a tweet, saying, “Your community will be the first to know if spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!”
This was deemed racist by the braindead horde on Twitter because the Twitter user in question was black. The horde decided that “your community” meant the black community and that the fast-food chain was peddling stereotypes about black people and spicy food.
As you can guess, there is a normal explanation for all of this. Chick-fil-A uses the phrase “your community” in its replies to all kinds of tweets about menu items. The Chick-fil-A Twitter account even used that phrase previously to reply to a white user asking about spicy chicken nuggets. But nothing sells in media (or on social media) like a fabricated racism controversy or bashing Chick-fil-A, which has committed the grave crime of being run by Christians.
This was a relatively tame social media mob by current standards, but the mindset behind it isn’t any less toxic. The mindless social-justice social media mob sees race everywhere, and every dumb accusation is picked up somewhere in the establishment media as a worthwhile story. The mob then moves on to its next target, and the media dutifully follow, because journalism now means reporting on what random losers say is racist on social media.
