Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".

[Aroura]

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.

They can say all the PC shit they want.  They didn't promote the cups that way, that is just a response to this lunatic.  The real reason is because it's a "cool" design.  Ombre is very high fashion right now.

Plus, it's not like the previous design, snowmen and sleds and stuff, had a blinking thing to do with Christian Christmas anyway.  It's just "winter" stuff.  This old design, for instance, has as much to do with Christmas as it does with Kwanza or Hanuka....in that you see snowmen in the norther hemisphere during winter, when these holidays take place.  If someone had bitched about the smowmen, they probably would have said the same thing about how it is all inclusive, and stuff.



My point is, they are saying PC shit now because this jackass made a fuss, but they did not CHANGE THE CUPS for PC reasons.  They did it for better marketing to the young crowd, that prefers ombre as "cool" over Picaso-esque snowmen.