Posted on 04/19/2018 5:14:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
This is your brain. This is your brain on race. We can all easily imagine circumstances in which a manager of a coffee shop or restaurant might properly call the police to ask them to remove loiterers. These are places of business. Theres nothing wrong in principle with calling the cops on non-customers who are taking up space. And theres nothing wrong with police asking people to leave private property where they arent welcome, given that trespassing is a crime. When such people refuse, thats unfortunate, but what can the police do but arrest them?
On the other hand, calling the police on two men in a Starbucks because theyre black would be very, very wrong, even outrageous. At a glance, what happened at that Philadelphia coffee shop last Thursday looks like racism. But theres little context. Does the manager also routinely call the police on white people who loiter in the shop? If a white manager called the police on two white guys hanging around a coffee shop, it wouldnt make the news, much less become a national obsession. Was the manager new on the job and unfamiliar with the generally lax policy at Starbucks when it comes to allowing nonpaying customers to hang out? Did the manager have some reason we dont know about for disliking the two men?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Discrimination’s meaning does not depend on context. It is a universal. it means the same thing ever time it is used. The Left is truly against discrimination in all it’s forms. Discrimination requires an ability to discern differences. The Left wants no such ability in the servile class which is all of us including most of the soldiers and activists of the Left who don’t understand that yet.
CEO Schultz’s new gun statement:
“I would like to clarify two points. First, this is a request and not an outright ban. Why? Because we want to give responsible gun owners the chance to respect our requestand also because enforcing a ban would potentially require our partners to confront armed customers, and that is not a role I am comfortable asking Starbucks partners to take on. Second, we know we cannot satisfy everyone. For those who oppose open carry, we believe the legislative and policy-making process is the proper arena for this debate, not our stores. For those who champion open carry, please respect that Starbucks stores are places where everyone should feel relaxed and comfortable. The presence of a weapon in our stores is unsettling and upsetting for many of our customers.
this is true. These guys were not dressed for a business meeting. Maybe if they were wearing trousers and a polo, nobody would have noticed them in the first place.
i have already been corrected on that (not Starbucks)
The server frowned at me and told me I should say “plain” now. We just said “ no coffee then, okay” and paid the bill for the rest of our stuff.
Black privilege.
A better term is black entitlement.”””
Even better: Black entitlement bitterness.......
aa affirmitive action
Meh. Thats not unreasonable.
A part of that envy the result of being challenged for the title of "America's #1 Victim" by the GIBLETS and other hate groups ... lots of money and perqs go with that #1 position, y'know!
White privy edge.
Star bucks is a private business not a welfare site. If you enter a business it should be with intent to be a customer. That is just proper etiquette. Loitering in some places is a crime. It also makes other people uncomfortable in this era of over hyped crime in America. Creating paranoia in the populace.
This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a long time.
I’m gonna need more popcorn.
Update, chief just apologized...
http://www.wral.com/the-latest-police-chief-apologizes-to-men-from-starbucks/17497559/
The whole country has become a gigantic loony bin.
Yes, I've noticed, too.
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