Care to elaborate a little on the racism angle a bit?

Not that I doubt it, but with the amount of research I’m willing to put into it (basically skimming the character barrel Wikipedia article, and a couple quick Google searches) I couldn’t turn up a whole lot of details.

I did find one class action lawsuit accusing them of racial discrimination, but without diving too deep into the court records, a lot of it kind of looked like more of a “some restaurants had shitty, racist managers” than a top-down “this whole company is racist” kind of thing. Not that it excuses the company for that, they’re responsible for hiring decent managers, but unless you’re going to have someone from corporate monitoring operations at every restaurant all day every day looking out for that, I could definitely see a lot of it flying under the radar.

If we want to talk LBGTQ discrimination though, yeah, there’s some outright shitty stuff at the corporate level in their past. Although (again, from just some very brief and not-at-all in-depth research) it does look like they’ve straightened that out pretty well over the last decade or two (and also, let’s not take for granted how fast a lot of people have come around on a lot of LGBTQ issues, at the time that stuff was happening, a lot of the country still hadn’t come around to the idea of accepting gay marriage, for example. It doesn’t make those policies right, but it was more in-line with the country as a whole at the time)

I figured that conservatives only get this riled up over racist stuff. Just wasn’t familiar.