(November 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm)Aroura Wrote:(November 10, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Sure, there's no need to be outraged about it, but I still think it was a dumb change. How many people see a snowflake and a sled and feel upset? It seems like it's just Starbucks pandering to the ultra PC crowd.
I guess if it pisses off fundamentalists, though, it can't be all bad.
The change has nothing to do with pandering to PC people, and everything to do with modern art and fashion. This Ombre thing (2 tone colors blending into each other) has been all the rage for the types that tend to buy Starbucks.
Snowflakes and sleds are probably not cool enough, or too "common".
I'm on my phone so I can't check right now, but didn't the article specifically say that the blank canvas style rather than christmas themes was to promote diversity and inclusiveness?
To me this basically means they are pandering to political correctness, they don't want to offend people who might be excluded by decorative symbols relating to christmas on a cup.
I wouldn't be annoyed if starbucks had never used christmas symbols on their cups or if they decided to stop using them just to be trendy, but to say they're using blank canvas cups for diversity is ridiculous I think.
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