I actually opened the article and then clicked to the full starbucks statement. That’s pretty much it.
The translation is basically anyone that thinks differently than leftists must be silent and eventually killed.
These companies will rue the day they they joined the “movement’
They will find out blm and antifa can and will never be happy until places like Starbucks and their imperialist, capitalist ways are burned to the ground.
Every last one.
As I understand it, Facebook is resisting the idea of censoring conservatives off the page, so all corporations are not buying advertising through them.
They are following Coca-Cola. Which has also already quit social media advertising.
Another problem with Starbucks: Their coffee sux.
And it goes downhill from there.
2016 was about the last time I went to Starbucks. I bought an espresso machine instead.
Just started ordering coffee from Black Rifle....small biz, great coffee, and easy auto delivery
This is an interesting development. I wonder what it is about.
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They want you silenced. By definition that will end “hate speech”. Read Post 2. I believe dp has it exactly right.
I’m back to getting a cup of coffee at the local diner.
It works just as well.
Advertising on facebook is a risky proposition.
It opens your posted ad (in newsfeeds, not the banners on the side) to comment and derision from people who don’t normally interact with your brand.
They seem to have gotten far away from their “mission”....making/ serving great coffee drinks and food...NOT dealing with “hate speech”
At the rate they are going, they really will wind up as they were in the movie “Idiocracy”.
It takes a while for the average consumer to realize just how alien a company has become to their values and beliefs. Think how long it took believing Catholics and Christians to desert the Democrat Party. People are beginning to understand that entities such as Starbucks, Pepsi, NBC News and most “news media”, Google, Twitter, government bureaucrats etc. do not share their values and in fact mock them in multiple ways. Would not call the resulting attitude a “backlash” but more an understanding of reality and behavioral adjustment that more resembles a very powerful undertow in ocean waters
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.
No advertising? We might forget they exist.
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
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.
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.