"Chickens for Colonel Sanders", or "Chickens for KFC", is a political rhetorical analogy which compares the irony of someone supporting a politician, organization, or ideology which contradicts their own beliefs or rights to the idea of chickens supporting American restaurateur Colonel Sanders or his chicken fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The phrase has been used by various politicians in different scenarios, such as in 1978 by Canadian politician Steven W. Langdon, NDP candidate for the Ottawa Centre federal electoral district, when comparing the district voting for the Progressive Conservative Party to a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,[1] and more recently in 2016 by U.S. lawmaker and representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn) using the phrase in comparison to Muslims voting for Donald Trump.
[2] Commentator Thomas Frank also cited an example of its use as a rhetorical tool of the grassroots conservative movement in the United States in the early 21st century.
[3] The similar phrase "Chickens for KFC" has most notably and recently been used in the context of LGBT people supporting the State of Palestine, a country in which LGBT subjects are generally considered taboo,[4] in its ongoing conflict with Israel, parodying the slogan "Gays for Gaza", particularly by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his 2024 Address to U.S.
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