Chick-Fil-A
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Chick-Fil-A is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 25, 2021 and March 09, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “won’t even speak the name Chick-Fil-A”; “consider eating at Chick-Fil-A”. It most often appears alongside Akron, Amherst, Asian Community Center.
Metadata
- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 25, 2021
- Last seen: March 09, 2023
Appears In
- A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word “Class”
- Give Up Seventy Percent Of The Way Through The Hyperstitious Slur Cascade
Related Pages
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- Akron (1 shared issues)
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- Amherst (1 shared issues)
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- Asian Community Center (1 shared issues)
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- Asians For Biden (1 shared issues)
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- Ben Carson (1 shared issues)
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- Berkeley (1 shared issues)
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- Bernie (1 shared issues)
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- Black (1 shared issues)
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- Black Panther (1 shared issues)
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- Broadway (1 shared issues)
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- capitalism (1 shared issues)
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- class (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Trump stood against the upper class. He might define them as: people who live in nice apartments in Manhattan or SF or DC and laugh under their breath if anybody comes from Akron or Tampa. Who eat Thai food and Ethiopian food and anything fusion, think they would gain 200 lbs if they ever stepped in a McDonalds, and won't even speak the name Chick-Fil-A. Who usually go to Ivy League colleges, though Amherst or Berkeley is acceptable if absolutely necessary. Who conspicuously love Broadway (especially Hamilton), LGBT, education, "expertise", mass transit, and foreign anything. They conspicuously hate NASCAR, wrestling, football, "fast food", SUVs, FOX, guns, the South, evangelicals, and reality TV. Who would never get married before age 25 and have cutesy pins about how cats are better than children. Who get jobs in journalism, academia, government, consulting, or anything else with no time-card where you never have to use your hands. Who all have exactly the same political and aesthetic opinions on everything, and think the noblest and most important task imaginable is to gatekeep information in ways that force everyone else to share those opinions too.
Actions can be hyperstitious slurs; consider eating at Chick-Fil-A. If enough people who care about gay rights boycott them, then eating there actively signals that you’re defecting from the boycott and must not care about gay rights very much. On the other hand, if only a small fraction of people who care about gay rights boycott it, then eating there doesn’t signal anything and it’s fine. If anyone ever credibly said “eating at Chick-Fil-A is a strong defection from the gay rights cause” and everyone believed them, there would be a stable equilibrium where nobody who cared about gay rights ate at Chick-Fil-A. But as long as people don’t believe that, it’s fine.