Chickens for Colonel Sanders
"Chickens for Colonel Sanders", or "Chickens for KFC", is a political rhetorical analogy which compares the irony of someone supporting a politician, organization, or ideology which contradicts their own beliefs or rights to the idea of chickens supporting American restaurateur Colonel Sanders or his chicken fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken. The phrase has been used by various politicians in different scenarios, such as in 1978 by Canadian politician Steven W. Langdon, NDP candidate for the Ottawa Centre federal electoral district, when comparing the district voting for the Progressive Conservative Party to a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,[1] and more recently in 2016 by U.S. lawmaker and representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn) using the phrase in comparison to Muslims voting for Donald Trump.[2] Commentator Thomas Frank also cited an example of its use as a rhetorical tool of the grassroots conservative movement in the United States in the early 21st century.[3]
The similar phrase "Chickens for KFC" has most notably and recently been used in the context of LGBT people supporting the State of Palestine, a country in which LGBT subjects are generally considered taboo,[4] in its ongoing conflict with Israel, parodying the slogan "Gays for Gaza", particularly by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his 2024 Address to U.S. Congress.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Mikkelson, Barbara (20 July 2008). "Chicken Votes for Colonel Sanders". Snopes. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ^ Yilek, Caitlin (24 May 2016). "Muslim lawmaker: Muslims for Trump is like chickens for Colonel Sanders". The Hill. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ^ Frank, Thomas (2004). What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. New York City: Metropolitan Books. p. 2. ISBN 9780805073393.
For you this picture of hard-times conservatism makes perfect sense, and it is the opposite phenomenon—working-class people who insist on voting for liberals—that strikes you as an indecipherable puzzlement. Maybe you see it the way the bumper sticker I spotted at a Kansas City gun show puts it: 'A working person that supports Democrats is like a chicken that supports Col. Sanders!'
- ^ Navabi, Armin (17 October 2023). ""Queers for Palestine" and the Death of Irony". Queer Majority. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ^ Walker, Jackson (24 July 2024). "Netanyahu likens 'Gays for Gaza' to 'Chickens for KFC' in speech to Congress". WPMI. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
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