Starbucks' CEO wants his employees to write that on cups and encourages people to talk to his employees about race.
This is an ignorant idea. I get his heart is in the right place, but this isn't the place for this conversation. This is dangerous.
All it takes is one argument that leads to an assault or a murder.
Beyond that, imagine the lawsuits that will follow. If I was a shareholder, I'd be pissed.
How can it go wrong? Here's a black woman being openly racist to another black person she thinks is white while discussing this very topic.
#RaceTogether
It reminds me of the Seinfeld where Elaine thinks she's in an interracial relationship.
"You're not black?"
"No. You're not Hispanic?"
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"You're not black?"
"No. You're not Hispanic?"
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I loved three things about it:
1. She was being ridiculously racist towards someone she perceived as white, and nobody is focusing on that fact.
2. She is so used to sticking her foot in her mouth she almost no sold her embarrassment.
3. She never apologized.
1. She was being ridiculously racist towards someone she perceived as white, and nobody is focusing on that fact.
2. She is so used to sticking her foot in her mouth she almost no sold her embarrassment.
3. She never apologized.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
I can't imagine this won't quietly go away at Starbucks. People are mocking them pretty hard. Kind of self aggrandizement to think that people need their coffee shop in order to broach tough subjects like race. It's pretty much all the stuff that the average joe complains about Starbucks being proven right.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren