{"id":1035,"date":"2018-04-17T14:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:17:12","slug":"cold-civil-war-exhibit-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/cold-civil-war-exhibit-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Civil War – Exhibit G"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been on the internet lately, you’ve probably heard about Dan Piepenbring’s\u00a0absurd piece about Chick-Fil-A<\/a> in the New Yorker<\/em> last week.\u00a0 After all, it’s being<\/a> very<\/a> thoroughly<\/a> lampooned<\/a> by folks on the right.\u00a0 And deservedly so.\u00a0 More than anything else, the piece reminds of a classic episode of NewsRadio<\/a> where New York radio personality Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman) is stuck in a midwestern airport.\u00a0 But whereas Hartman expertly hams up the elitist bigotry for comedic effect,\u00a0Piepenbring seems wholly serious.<\/p>\n

But at amusing as it is, the important takeaway isn’t the fact that there’s yet another coastal leftist hipster jumping the shark on snobbery.\u00a0 Piepenbring is entirely transparent about the reasons he doesn’t want Chick-Fil-A in his town:<\/p>\n

The brand\u2019s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism. Its headquarters, in Atlanta, are adorned with Bible verses and a statue of Jesus washing a disciple\u2019s feet. Its stores close on Sundays. Its C.E.O., Dan Cathy, has been accused of bigotry for using the company’s charitable wing to fund anti-gay causes, including groups that oppose same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

He hates Chick-Fil-A because he hates Christians.\u00a0 It really isn’t any more complicated than that.\u00a0 And it’s not particularly new or rare, either.\u00a0 Liberals have been consistently uncomfortable with the fast-food chain for a long time now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But we already knew all that, so why bring it up?<\/p>\n

Because any conservative who still thinks talk of a national divorce is overblown needs to ask themselves a simple question:\u00a0 If leftist bigots are disgusted even with the idea of Christians selling chicken sandwiches, exactly what place do you think they’ll allow us to occupy in society when they’re in charge?<\/p>\n

They do not disagree with us; they want to annihilate us.\u00a0 That makes this an existential conflict.\u00a0 We need to treat it like one while we still have the freedom to do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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