Posted on 06/28/2020 7:57:46 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
After positioning their brand in 2015 as the leading indicator of woke credentialing; then reversing course in 2016 on the plan to force racial discussion with every purchase; Starbucks is now announcing a pause in all social media advertising because… well, they don’t want to contribute to hate-speech n’ stuff.
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Meanwhile some fast food restaurants will kick you out if you stick around using wi-fi 30 minutes after you’ve finished your sandwich or taco.
““Starbucks stands out because it has embraced a role as a community meeting place where people read, work on computers or just hang out, whether they buy anything or not.””
most cities already have this place. it is public library
This may be the sad mantra of many Woke companies in this decade.
Well, frankly, this saddens me.
I am, finally, a big Starbucks fan.
That’s right.
I have decided, after all, that with all I have to do, with a family to support, and with a country on the brink of total collapse, it would be in my best interest to spend five or ten dollars on sour, burned coffee smothered in various types of sugary syrups made who knows where and packaged in China.
For atmosphere I choose to sip this vomit-inducing bile, or bile-inducing vomit in an overwrought, poorly lit den covered with sticky surfaces and crawling with mentally ill people who stink of sweat and infection.
And, of course, self-righteous homosexual graduate students who make loud phone calls in effeminate voices.
I prefer to have my vomit served to me by parent-dependent pizza-faced creeps whose piercings are deeply infected and whose tattoos, barely masking the swelling from the piercings and cuttings indicate hatred for my country and my entire belief system.
But that’s just me.
Starbucks followed the Italian method of over roasted beans for coffee. Horrible.
PS...that is my only complaint regarding Italian cuisine. Everything else is supreme.
THAT’S why they put out that statement.
They’re not woke at all.
They did have a friend meeting them there. They were well groomed, not hostile...hmm...starbucks isn’t WOKE!!
They fired the manager and made amends to the men who were removed by police when they refused to buy any product.
There used to be protections against loitering.
No advertising? We might forget they exist.
As there should be.
I just found it ironic that the bastion of wokeness was where this took place.
Usually you’re not waiting for someone. Unless it was raining out, the weather is pretty nice.
And I don’t care if they’re black or white or yellow, people hanging around just for the sake of hanging around make one feel uncomfortable.
They may be there for a bad reason.
I went to a Starbucks maybe twice when the company first started way back when. At the time the atmosphere seemed creepy. Same for Barnes and Noble.
Then again, maybe Starbucks just doesn’t have the money
I’ve seen white people do the same thing. Coordinate their “office meetings” with strangers at coffeehouses. They will talk to one customer for an hour and then repeat the same questions with another customer a bit later.
They occupy “real estate” for an extended period. They raise the volume level in the room. They are there for hours. And they don’t spend a dime. They don’t even tip the staff for the space or to straighten up afterwards.
That’s incredible.
I don’t know if I’ve ever ordered from a Starbucks. Yeah at a stand a few times in atlantic city for my mom.
But the ones with seats, do a lot of people sit in there or is it mostly order and run?
GREAT post! :-D
Oh, goodie!
Democrats and Liberals are trying to force Facebook to censor and delete Facebook posts THEY define as hate speech, etc.
Zuckberg, until recently, has said he won't censor political speech so liberal businesses are ganging on to FB to bow to their will.
Indications are Zuckberg is already caving in to their demands.
A whole bunch of S&P 500 companies and leftwing NGO are boycotting advertising on social media.
Why?
Because they argue that social media does not do enough censorship of “hate speech”, a term which encompasses conservative and right-wing viewpoints that fall outside of the the 3x5 card of allowable opinion.
Only opinions that fall within the range of those held by BLM/Antifa and Mitt Romney are acceptable to the ruling elites who control most large corporations.
Even Zuckerberg’s FaceBook and Jack’s Twitter are too permissive, so they are pulling advertising until they become more censorious.
Great post.
Leftarded people would do well to understand that they can never be woke enough. Ever. It will never be good enough, they can never be “inclusive” enough, they can never be “good” enough, to make leftists happy. Ever.
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