Cenk Uygur
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Idiots Boycotting Red Lobster Because Of Beyonce
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February 22, 2016
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February 22, 2016
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4:15Now PlayingPeople are now saying that they plan on boycotting Red Lobster because Beyonce sang about it in her latest song “Formation”. Right after she released that song sales for Red lobster jumped 33%. Now people who are uncomfortable with messages about racism say that Beyonce should not be supported because she sang about red Lobster. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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Beyonce is the best thing to happen to Red Lobster since all the Long John Silver’s apparently closed (hey, I haven’t seen one in years).
The fast seafood chain received an unexpectedly sexy shout-out in Bey’s “Formation” (“When he f*ck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster”), which reportedly increased sales by 33 percent the day after the song was released.
Most of the replies were positive — we love Beyonce, we love cheddar biscuits, we love slowly becoming salty corpses — but others, not so much. As SNL perfectly lampooned in “The Day Beyonce Turned Black,” some (white) people are not pleased with Red Lobster’s kinship with the former Destiny’s Child standout, because #BoycottBeyonce. In their minds, eating at Red Lobster means supporting noted cop-hater Beyonce, or something.
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