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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 3:37 pm
(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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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 7:41 pm
(November 12, 2015 at 3:37 pm)paulpablo Wrote: (November 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm)Aroura Wrote: 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.
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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.
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 7:48 pm
(November 12, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What do snowflakes and sleds have to do with fucking jesus, anyway?
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 8:07 pm
Or maybe they did, but Idon't really care ether way, and that really isn't the point, now is it? lol
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 8:23 pm
(November 12, 2015 at 7:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (November 12, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What do snowflakes and sleds have to do with fucking jesus, anyway?
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 11:04 pm
Jesus gets outwitted and overpowered by a coffee cup design.
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 11:04 pm
(November 12, 2015 at 8:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (November 12, 2015 at 7:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Once the logic melts, the believer slides away.
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 11:09 pm
(November 10, 2015 at 3:30 am)Aroura Wrote: I know there is already a thread about how we, personally, will engage in the "war on Christmas", but I thought this deserved it's own thread. If I'm wrong, admins feel free to merge it.
So, Starbucks has taken reindeer, snowmen, dogs on sleds, and snowflakes off their cups this year in favor of a nice, simple 2 tone red cup. The response from some Christians? Go batshit crazy of how Starbucks is part of the "war on Christmas."
I seriously thought this would be an Onion article or something when I first saw it, but no, some Christians are literally up in arms (see: the guy who brought his gun in to Starbucks just to show that commie socialist business what for!). Yeah, he's already famous for being a douche, but this brings it to a new level.
Starbucks Red Cup "Controversy"
So lets make a thread dedicated to the asinine things some Christians claim are actually part of this "war on Christmas". What is more asanine that getting so upset ofer red cups that you bring a gun into the store? That is some bat shit crazy stuff. I think it just moved the needle of the percent of crazy people up a couple of points. If you see people gathering sticks run because they are getting ready to burn people at the stake.
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 11:19 pm
Dude, I like steak.
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RE: Starbucks Red cups and the "War on Christmas".
November 12, 2015 at 11:47 pm
You know deep down in that shriveled and dead atheist soul of mine, I really fucking josh feuerstain is just an rloborate troll. Like landover baptist church or something.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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