{"id":24941,"date":"2022-09-11T22:03:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=24941"},"modified":"2022-09-11T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:03:47","slug":"chick-fil-a-is-under-fire-for-a-tweet-that-social-media-users-said-called-out-a-twitter-users-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/09\/11\/chick-fil-a-is-under-fire-for-a-tweet-that-social-media-users-said-called-out-a-twitter-users-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Chick-fil-A is under fire for a tweet that social media users\u00a0said called out a Twitter user\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NBC News is reporting:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/large.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/large.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/large.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Twitter user&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyeismydad\/status\/1568283165113913350?s=46&amp;t=RFRMWLQaduLBb-u57HdYGA\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;at the fast-food chain Friday: \u201cgrilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026@ChickfilA\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">grilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChickfilA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChickfilA<\/a>\u2026.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vv0OKd5xxU\">pic.twitter.com\/vv0OKd5xxU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Don (@KANYEISMYDAD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KANYEISMYDAD\/status\/1568283165113913350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In direct response, the official Twitter account for Chick-fil-A responded, \u201cYour community will be the first to know if spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the initial tweet had only six replies, Chick-fil-A\u2019s response got more than 700 replies and 4,300 quote tweets because of its choice of wording. Many Twitter users called out the account\u2019s decision to use the term \u201cyour community,\u201d questioning whether it was targeting the identity of the user, who appears to be Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat do you mean by \u2018your community\u2019???????\u201d a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Theolivepit04\/status\/1568467534621327362?s=20&amp;t=WeS2DeOrpAoh7NP-5WwfzA\">tweet<\/a>&nbsp;read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another user&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jay5ive92\/status\/1568521595441893377?s=20&amp;t=YBWab6mWM_g_4CrK5qwKnQ\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cYour community? I\u2019m gonna need explanation for that comment. \u2018Our\u2019 community wouldn\u2019t wanna think that there was some racial undertones behind that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChic\u2026this aint a good look. What you meant by that specifically?\u201d a user questioned in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_SoyKalimbaa\/status\/1568446707720982528?s=20&amp;t=YBWab6mWM_g_4CrK5qwKnQ\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other users pointed out it is a common response from the fast-food chain\u2019s social media accounts. One shared a screenshot of another&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FactsinatedbyTV\/status\/1568512637620584448?s=20&amp;t=YBWab6mWM_g_4CrK5qwKnQ\">tweet<\/a>&nbsp;from Chick-fil-A at the end of last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll jokes aside, they reply like this frequently,\u201d the user wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another user shared a screenshot of a series of tweets from Chick-fil-A replying to other Twitter users, highlighting messages that mentioned the word \u201ccommunity.\u201d Alongside the screenshot, the user&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dennis_k_g\/status\/1568661613120737280?s=20&amp;t=YBWab6mWM_g_4CrK5qwKnQ\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cY\u2019all hilarious\u201d alongside a laughing emoji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe response was a poor choice of words but was not intended in any way to be insensitive or disrespectful,\u201d a spokesperson told \u201cTODAY\u201d in a statement. \u201cWe often use the term \u2018community\u2019 in a broader sense to talk about places where we operate restaurants and serve the surrounding community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News is reporting: A Twitter user&nbsp;tweeted&nbsp;at the fast-food chain Friday: \u201cgrilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026@ChickfilA\u2026..\u201d grilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026@ChickfilA\u2026.. pic.twitter.com\/vv0OKd5xxU &mdash; Don&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[3390],"class_list":["post-24941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-chick-fil-a-is-under-fire-for-a-tweet-that-social-media-users-said-called-out-a-twitter-users-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}