I don’t know. It could, but not only are they a Seattle company, they’re concentrated in urban areas which tend to be liberal. Banning firearms wouldn’t be a difficult decision were they a liberal company. And in the unlikely event I ran a company like Starbucks, my reaction to the thank you demonstrations wouldn’t be much different. Thank me in another way. You’re right about the leftist complaints, but they got no reaction. As to the Hot Air article contension they’re more afraid of leftists, Hot Air left too much out of the article to be credible. Starbucks doesn’t strike me a an enemy, shouldn’t characterize them as one. Need friends, not enemies.
I all for letting the market decide. Put forward a quality product at a reasonable price and I’m game for it. I really don’t care for all this boycott/buycott business. It makes it too damned hard to live, deciding on who to trade with based on their political activities. As much as I like to dabble in politics, I don’t want my whole life to revolve around it.
Sure, I’ll toss some business to Chick-fil-A once in a while as a way of saying “Atta boy!”, but keeping a list of sponsors to boycott for this reason or that is just too demanding.