In this
sketch, cartoonist Jimmy Margulies portrays the discrimination against
homosexuals in Chick-fil-A by drawing a parallel between gay discrimination and
color discrimination in the South prior to the mid-twentieth century. Chick-fil-A
was founded by a traditional Christian man who wanted to incorporate his
religion into the way his business was conducted. Thus, every restaurant in the
massive fast food chain is closed on Sundays, and the employees have the
liberty to turn away a homosexual customer. The drinking fountain labelled “straight”
is drawn to be of much higher quality than the drinking fountain designated for
homosexuals as a method to represent the underlying inequality and harshly
correlate it with racial discrimination. Some critics believe this to be too
harsh of a comparison, because the discrimination through the twentieth century
was much crueler than the inequality faced today with homosexuals. Others,
particularly in the gay community, applaud this cartoon for directly
victimizing Chick-fil-A. It came to my attention that many gay individuals
boycott eating at the restaurant as a way of protest and put economic pressure
on the company to change. Like all political cartoons, there are a wide array
of reactions to this drawing.
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