Wichita State University student targets Chick-fil-A in hilariously unhinged opinion piece

Sascha Harvey, the opinion editor for The Sunflower, Wichita State University’s student led news source, wrote and published an opinion piece targeting Chick-fil-A on Friday, September 22.

I have no idea what Harvey is. He looks like a triggered lesbian in his photo, but he could just be a guy who had too much soy growing up. And yes, I’m being mean, this little boy is mean. He’s either a trans man or a gay man still waiting to go through puberty. Either way, his bio has he/him pronouns, so that’s what I’m using for the junior majoring in graphic design.

Harvey begins his article stating he doesn’t actually care what people do, except he clearly does, because he wrote an entire opinion piece about what he thinks about people when they do a specific thing. He also then states, “I’m not going to delude myself into thinking that everyone who eats Chick-fil-A is homophobic.” It’s good that he starts off with this, because had he not, given the rest of the article, you would have no idea that he didn’t think this way.

He then states that if you’re a member of the LGBTQ+ community or not, if you eat Chick-fil-A “believing you’ve done all you can for the queer community,” then you’re “wrong.”

Now, I find this to be really interesting wording, and I find it to be accurate because ‘Q’ in LGBTQ+ stands for Queer, and, according to little boy Harvey, eating at Chick-fil-A goes against the queer community. Not the LGBTQ+ community. The queer community. The Q. See where I’m going with this? Normal LGBT people don’t care where you choose to spend your money at. That’s only the queers, and quite frankly, as a gay man, myself, I have no interest in supporting the queer community in anyway, because they have no interest in truly supporting LGBT people. They’re a parasite that latched themselves onto LGBT and they are taking away the progress LGBT people worked so hard for.

Little boy Harvey then states that “assuming you do care about marginalized communities…”

Choke me.

As someone who is gay in 2023 America, I am NOT marginalized. That is a word that people with a victim mentality uses to describe themselves because they’re a loser. That’s a word that people use to describe themselves when they don’t want to accept the fact that they’re not good enough for something. “I didn’t win because I’m marginalized.” “I didn’t get in because I’m marginalized.” “My life is like this because I’m marginalized.” No, sweetie. You want to talk about people who are marginalized, let’s talk about the mentally and physically disabled. However, that’s only if you’re going to be serious, which, reading this opinion piece, it’s very clear he’s not.

The next paragraph is my favorite because he’s literally making an argument for why you should eat at Chick-fil-A and admitting that he’s eaten there and enjoyed his experience:

“Chick-fil-A is good. Really good. I think we can all agree to that, so I’m not going to pretend that their chicken isn’t one of the greatest—if not the best—on the market.”

He then goes onto compare apples and oranges by comparing Chick-fil-A with Shein clothing, Kanye West, and leather boots. Basically stating reasons why you would spend money on those things, and then stating why you shouldn’t buy those things, which you can make an argument like that for literally anything. Also, again, Harvey admits he still wears leather boots despite the fact leather comes from cowhide. So, he literally admits that even he spends his money on things that could be argued are bad to spend your money on, because that’s the real point. There is always some reason to not spend your money somewhere or on something, but at the end of the day, it’s YOUR money, and YOU should be the one who spends it as YOU see fit.

He then claims Chick-fil-A is known to create an “unsafe environment” for queer workers, but doesn’t give any examples. Also, you would think that if a person felt unsafe at their job, they would simply find another job, instead of continuing to make money for the business.

He goes into how Chick-fil-A has discriminated against workers on the basis of sexual orientation and how they have supported homophobic causes in the past, which is true. Specifically, Harvey mentions Owner of Chick-fil-A Dan Cathy, stating that though the corporation stopped supporting the causes in 2019, Cathy still does.

Due to Cathy still owning the business, Harvey informs readers that they have a “horrible and selfish mindset” if they still choose to eat there, which sounds exactly like someone who doesn’t care about what others do as he stated at the beginning of the article.

“When you support Chick-fil-A, you support former CEO Dan Cathy and you support everything he stands for, even without his anti-gay beliefs,” Harvey writes. “Not eating at Chick-fil-A is quite literally the least you can do to support the LGBTQ+ community, and yet it is the easiest choice—or lack thereof—to make.”

I have thoughts for both of these sentences. Saying that supporting Chick-fil-A is you supporting everything Cathy stands for, is like saying if you support Amazon, Apple, BMW, Dell, Google, Hershey’s, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Nestle, Nike, Nintendo, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, or Volkswagen, then you support everything that slaveowners stand for because all of these businesses use slaves, meaning all of these businesses support slaveowners. I guarantee you Harvey supports more than one of these businesses, so am I able to sit here and say that he is a proponent of slavery, because that’s what he’s arguing, and it’s stupid.

As far as limiting your choices for dinner being the “least you can do to support the LGBTQ+ community,” as a gay man, I have to say, I can think of lesser things you can do to support LGBT people. And, no, I didn’t include Q, because Q is it’s own separate thing that is never satisfied, because the only people who identify with the Q are delusional, like little boy Harvey. So, if you want to support LGBT people, maybe try not going out of your way to transition a child who is most likely just gay. Maybe try not going out of your way to sexualize and indoctrinate children behind the backs of parents in the name of LGBTQ+. Just a couple of thoughts. LGBT people, like me, would appreciate it, because that’s all queer crap that hurts actual LGBT people who are trying to end division with non-LGBT people.

The very last sentence of his article he states that eating at Chick-fil-A means you’re having “a damn good meal” that causes harm, and I just wanted to throw that in because it’s funny and suggests, once again that he’s eaten at the establishment, meaning, in his own delusional head, he stands for all the things Cathy stands for.

Personally, I’ve never eaten at Chick-fil-A, myself, but that’s only because if I’m going out for wings, I’m having beer, which Chick-fil-A doesn’t offer. At the end of the day, enjoy whatever you like because you can only control what you do, not what other businesses do, and most businesses and businessowners have done something, said something, or even support something that you don’t, and that’s okay. At the end of the day, you should enjoy the products and services that make you happy without worry about what someone else thinks of you. And if you don’t want to support a business due to what they support, congratulations, you have every right to make that decision, too. Thank God for Capitalism. Also, it is interesting to note that Chick-fil-A has actually been receiving backlash for going woke within the past few months with accusations of them having an “anti-White” and “anti-Christian” agenda.