Why do some conservatives feel the need to boycott anything that doesn’t fit into their tiny minds?
Frito-Lay, the parent company of Doritos, today launched a great offer: donate $10 or more online to Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project, get a bag of Rainbow Doritos – a limited edition version of its Cool Ranch flavor chips baked in the colors of the rainbow, to represent the gay pride flag.Â
It Gets Better is a non-profit charity created in 2010 in response to the large numbers of kids who were attempting or committing suicide – kids who were literally bullied to death. Its sole purpose is to help LGBTQ kids and teens understand that life after you’re a kid or a teen gets better, and suicide is never the right answer.Â
That’s it.
The Doritos campaign is simple: raise money for a worthwhile cause, a charity that is helping to raise awareness and helping to reduce youth and teen suicide.
And some conservatives, of course, have a problem with that.
There are no gimmicks, no huge in-store displays, no TV ads, no Rainbow Doritos sponsoring the Super Bowl (although there’s an idea!) and yet the anti-gay right is freaking out – calling for a boycott of “fag Doritos,” among other ugly attacks.Â
Labeling Dan Savage an “infamous anti-Christian bully and bigot,” Breitbart’s John Nolte writes that the “rainbow color of the Dorito chips represent the LGBT rainbow flag, a symbol now widely seen as one of anti-Christian hate and bigotry.”
Nolte is the one who started that idea, and no, the gay pride flag is not “widely seen as one of anti-Christian hate and bigotry.”
Of course, you can count on the likes of anti-gay, anti-immigration, anti-women conservative Michelle Malkin to use Rainbow Doritos to take a nasty swipe at LGBT people:
And of course, there are others:
And yes, you can donate $10 and get a bag, just visit the link in the Doritos Facebook post, above.
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Image via Doritos/Facebook
Hat tip: Joe.My.God. and Tom Boggioni/Raw Story