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Title: La Carnita apologizes for Trump-inspired 'grab her by the taco' post
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CBC News Toronto
URL Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron ... arnita-apology-trump-1.3801103
Published: Oct 12, 2016
Author: Laura Fraser
Post Date: 2016-10-14 17:30:21 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 855
Comments: 5
The Mexican street-food chain La Carnita issued an apology Tuesday after an Instagram post inspired by Donald Trump set off a firestorm of tweets calling for a boycott of the restaurant and a donation to sexual assault support services. The original post has since been removed. But it capitalized on some of the controversy surrounding the U.S. Republican presidential candidate this week with the caption, "What if Donald said, 'Grab her by the taco'..." beneath some of the restaurant's menu items. Reaction was swift. "Right so: never eating at La Carnita again," Globe and Mail columnist Denise Balkissoon tweeted. Others quickly added their name to the boycott. "Cost yourself this taco-loving customer," Laura Reinholz tweeted. "Given media coverage, you can't plead ignorance, your 'mistake' was epically distasteful." The post in question capitalized on the 2005 video leaked last week in which Trump brags about groping women without any warning. "I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them," he says in the video. "It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything." Right after that, he said, "grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." The Republican nominee issued a rare apology for the comments, although some criticized it as being insincere as Trump had already downplayed his remarks as mere "locker room talk." The apology The four-restaurant chain issued a three-tweet apology Tuesday night after removing the post. "Tonight, we made a mistake. A big one," La Carnita tweeted at 9:19 p.m. "We used a caption that was dumb, rude and insensitive." Some patrons thanked the restaurant for acknowledging the insensitivity of the post, but others said the apology didn't go far enough. Others questioned its sincerity — pointing to an earlier La Carnita tweet that referred to its servers as "tacHOES" in February 2014. The accompanying Instagram post for that tweet has since been deleted. Balkissoon and others suggested the restaurant make amends by donating to a sexual assault support or crisis centre. Andrew Richmond, CEO of Monarch and Misfits, which owns the popular taqueria chain, said he is "taking this very seriously." The post was made on Taco Tuesday, so "moving forward every Tuesday we are going to take a portion of sales and donate them to the Canadian Women's Foundation," Richmond told CBC News Wednesday in a telephone interview, adding that the measure would be in effect for the next eight weeks. La Carnita is also making changes internally by implementing mandatory sensitivity training for its managers. "Our company is made up of 50 per cent women and that said, we want to take steps to re-evaluate how we conduct ourselves," Richmond said. In the next two months, La Carnita will update Torontonians about the progress made with the sensitivity training and the funds donated, he said. Poster Comment: If Hillary Clinton rigs the election we can all expect to dress in non-gender specific tunics and the only public discourse allowed will be reading quotes from The Dowager Empress of Chappaqua......
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Unbiased sources say that Butch and Bill have made an agreement for when they move into the White House. Bill has agreed, in writing, to share the services of the young female interns 50/50 with Butch. This arrangement should make for a happier household than last time.
Ha!!!
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
lol! sorry, but it sounds like whoever is in charge of this company is funny and has a very non PC sense of humor. bad if you're Canadian, I guess. Others questioned its sincerity — pointing to an earlier La Carnita tweet that referred to its servers as "tacHOES" in February 2014
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
#4. To: Artisan (#3)
Soft, or crispy?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#5. To: Lod (#4)
Fish taco's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
-Alex Kurtagic
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