CEO of Panera posts inspiring message of peace, right-wingers freak out

[mreilly]

Last edited Thu Aug 24, 2017, 11:40 AM - Edit history (1)

Ron Shaich of Panera posted the following message promoting peace and denouncing hatred:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hate-has-home-panera-ron-shaich?trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-recommended_articles-7-Unknown&midToken=AQFYM5NZfh62UA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=1flU697j76onU1

As expected, right-wingers pitched a hissy fit in the comments, immediately snarling threats of boycotts, shrieking "What about [insert name of any other group they want to deflect to]" and even stooping to jeer at the quality of the food at Panera. Spewing the same old talking points. Hysterical with rage that anyone would dare to promote peace.

And it's liberals who are "triggered snowflakes who need safe spaces?"

What's interesting is that Shaich points the finger at alt-right, NOT regular conservatives, and even praises politicians on both sides of the aisle who have condemned hate. But no, the right-wingers must throw a tantrum that they're being picked on by a guy who criticizes Nazis. Fucking Nazis!

A girl is dead, the result of being murdered by a Republican, but as always these poor litle sob sisters are the perpetual victims. As always.

[Javaman]

1. I love Panera food. Plus, they make the most incredible short bread cookie around! nt

[ProfessorGAC]

5. For Me, It's All But Their Salad Dressings

The salads have great mixes and they're really attractive looking. But, except for that asian salad the dressings are all dreadfully sweet.

Other than that, i think they're food is pretty darned good, too

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Loved Panera before, love it even more now!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. They'll always have Cracker Barrel...

[tosh]

4. HA!

So true!

[sheshe2]

6. Well...

at least we know a safe place to eat!

Love Panera

[pangaia]

7. Here is a great example of THE STUPID

A reply----
BOLD is mine..

Neal Hebert
Managing Sales Director at Magnolia Wealth Strategies, a Member of MassMutual Financial Group-

I suggest the left learn their history about calling Neo-Natzi Groups as Alt-Right. In 1920 in Germany, a political party was formed called the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party), abbreviated to NSDAP. Its leader from 1921 was Adolf Hitler. They are SOCIALST, not conservatives. They are one in the same as Antifa.
As a conservative and patriotic American I will no longer do business with firms like Panera Bread. I hope Mr. Saich is ignorant, for if he is not, he supports the actions of the extreme groups including Antifa.

MAGNOLIA WEALTH STRADEGERIES-- stupid ignorant fuck...

[ornotna]

9. I wonder how long Mr Herbert keeps his position

[pangaia]

16. Oh, he will keep it, I suspect.

[ornotna]

22. I would think his bosses

At MassMutual wouldn't be to pleased.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. And Yet, It Was Irrefutable That He Admired Mussolini

So, i guess Hebert needs to learn HIS history. Just because the Nazi's used the word socialism, doesn't mean they were really socialists.

Moron.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Yeah, kind of like how the People's Democratic Republic of Korea was named so accurately...

For those who don't remember, that was the official name for North Korea during the Cold War.

Oh, and the People's Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany before the re-unification)

The Commies knew a little bit about naming shit in ways that sound good.

[bigbrother05]

25. The Nazi's were as Socialist as Trump is Populist

His populism is a guise to make his base feel like he will look out for the little guy in small town America while he lines the pockets of the 1% at the expense of the needy.

Hitler used the socialist term to justify his intent to strip the elites, namely Jewish bankers/businessmen, of their wealth.

In both cases, oligarchy is the effect and intent. A "chosen" few to control the masses.

[Wounded Bear]

28. "Populism" as a political term seldom has much to do with "majority"...

Usually it is a loud minority that seizes the moment to take power.

[bigbrother05]

42. "Meet John Doe" summed up most populist campaigns

Someone is held up as a plain speaking, straight talker that's on the side of the little guy who's hurting and will lead them to the promised land.

All prepackaged with tons of empty calories and a 3 day sell-by date. Leaves you with an aching head, a queasy stomach, and worse off than when you started.

[Stonepounder]

11. I get so tired of uneducated dumbshits claiming that Nazism was 'socialist' and therfore

somehow to be associated with the 'left' or liberals.

From Wikipedia:

Oswald Spengler, a German cultural philosopher, was a major influence on Nazism[.]

Spengler's notions of "Prussian socialism" as described in his book Preussentum und Sozialismus ("Prussiandom and Socialism", 1919), influenced Nazism and the Conservative Revolutionary movement. Spengler wrote: "The meaning of socialism is that life is controlled not by the opposition between rich and poor, but by the rank that achievement and talent bestow. That is our freedom, freedom from the economic despotism of the individual. Spengler adopted the anti-English ideas addressed by Plenge and Sombart during World War I that condemned English liberalism and English parliamentarianism while advocating a national socialism that was free from Marxism and that would connect the individual to the state through corporatist organisation. Spengler claimed that socialistic Prussian characteristics existed across Germany, including creativity, discipline, concern for the greater good, productivity, and self-sacrifice. He prescribed war as a necessity, saying "War is the eternal form of higher human existence and states exist for war: they are the expression of the will to war."

True socialism, according to Spengler, would be in the form of corporatism, stating that: "local corporate bodies organised according to the importance of each occupation to the people as a whole; higher representation in stages up to a supreme council of the state; mandates revocable at any time; no organised parties, no professional politicians, no periodic elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

Now, if anyone would care to try and find something in Spengler that equates to liberalism, please feel free.

[underpants]

30. Spengler. Interesting.

Thanks.

[RandomAccess]

34. It's not a matter of education but of propaganda

They're not poorly informed, they're DISinformed. The folks on the right - don't know who exactly - have deliberately muddied the waters so they can slime the left with the fascist label while sanitizing and camouflaging their own true agenda and ideology.

[niyad]

14. he cannot even spell nazi correctly.

[ChazInAz]

20. "...one in the same....."

[niyad]

21. I only got as far as nazi.

[HughBeaumont]

24. This ugly revision is proliferating among the white males on the Internets

Commits the association fallacy and ignores important chunks of history for the argument to be plausible.

I practically have the above article bookmarked for FB due to this bullshit being as rampant as it is.

[Wounded Bear]

29. This bullshit has been around for years...

The RW echo chamber have been insisting for many years that anything remotely bad is always the fault of evil liberals and leftist conspiracies.

[pangaia]

38. The ignorance, stupidity and laziness defines too much of America.

[FiveGoodMen]

26. "They are SOCIALST, not conservatives"

And the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

What are they?

What's in a name? (Often just a big lie)

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

35. The left should learn their history? Says the idiot who

doesn't understand that the Nazis were not socialists, despite their name. So, If change my middle name to Millionaire, can I expect a huge increase in my bank balance?

Also, NaTzi?

[pangaia]

37. And tens if millions of Americans are equally as ignorant.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

40. Yep. One thing still manufactured in great quantities in America:

ignorance.

[Initech]

8. Remember Avengers: Age Of Ultron?

There's a line where Ultron says something like "People become the thing they dread the most.". Conservatives are fast becoming the snowflakes who need safe spaces that they accuse liberals of being.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

41. Hmmm. If that were true, I'd expect them to turn into minorities.

Oh, right! White men and white women.

[murielm99]

13. Their bread is delicious.

This reminds me to buy more of it.

[niyad]

15. Liked Panera before, even more so now, will definitely spread the word.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. I doubt many Deplorables frequent Panera.

[maryellen99]

18. Applebee's is more their speed nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. 7-11

[maryellen99]

27. yep nt

[underpants]

32. Me either.

I'm not a big fan of Panera simply because I like hot food being hot.

The price alone, $8 for half a sandwich, scares them off quick. AND soup?

[SoCalNative]

43. Doubt that they can afford it

Cracker Barrel and Hometown Buffet is more their speed and budget.

[lark]

19. I love Paneras in almost every way.

My daughter has worked for Panera's for 11 years and is a Joint Venture General Manager at age 28 and doing so well. They recognize talent and treat their people very well. In fact, my husband now works there since he's semi-retired and does deliveries. I love that they sell "clean" and very high quality food. Now I have yet another reason to love them, a CEO who has common sense and who cares about the people who work for him as well as the entire country.

[Renew Deal]

31. Are people posting hate on LinkedIn?

Doesn't seem wise.

[benld74]

33. LinkedIn - Business and Employment Oriented social networking service - Wikipedia

Obviously, those within the service either are unaware or don't care their job position and company name appears in their replies. Those of us who read them and disagree could come DOWN on their company by pulling our business from them.
OR
Contact the company, give the employees name, and complain How can the company ALLOW its employees to state this trash, and provide the link.

OR they are fake.

If #2, they would suffer the same fate as the torch boys did job wise.
People sure dont think past their noses.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. Time to get some Panera I think.

[AwakeAtLast]

39. Go ahead and boycott

We will get to eat in peace!