More Silliness From Starbucks
[guest post by Dana]
Sharpen those No.2’s, people, Starbucks has thoughtfully provided you with a test race reality checklist to see how racist you might be:
(I guess I will be graded on a curve because I have brown skin!)
Silliness aside, let’s hear from a professional on the potential viability of this campaign:
Don’t be so quick to dismiss it. I’ve been teaching and conducting research on the complex and, often complicated, dynamics of race-related dialogues and interracial interactions for more than 20 years. Encouraging people to talk about race and racism more often can actually improve our willingness and ability to do so.
Hey! That’s just what this administration told this nation of cowards! And hasn’t that national conversation on race been working out well for us!
Further, the author cites “data” supporting her theory:
In a series of subsequent experiments published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we found that these interactions are mentally draining, in part, because people are extremely concerned about appearing prejudiced, getting caught saying or doing the wrong thing. Indeed, social psychologist Sophie Trawalter, psychobiologist Emma Adam and I found that white individuals who were most concerned about appearing prejudiced released heightened levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and displayed more “anxious behavior” — for example, averting their eyes — during interracial, compared with same-race, interactions.
These and many other studies underscore the difficulty that individuals often have when they attempt to negotiate interracial interactions, even when they have the best intentions. Indeed, there is reason to believe that the people who are genuinely most concerned about racial bias are also the most likely to suffer these negative affective and cognitive costs.
Just don’t look too hard at “why” white people might be tense during discussions of race these days. Assume it’s their natural guilt-by-default. Anything more is not part of the equation.
This is not new, but I’m going to note it once again: In light of the surge of agitprop coming from the ubiquitous racial grievance groups in America, these very people who claim to want to dialogue about race have, through their own efforts, successfully stymied any honest discussion from ever taking place. Why, one might even think this was done with intent!
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (86e864) — 3/21/2015 @ 12:15 pmhow much bait could a race-baiter bait if a race-baiter could bait bait?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/21/2015 @ 12:25 pmWouldn’t the proper answer for the blanks to all those questions be question marks? It’s a bit weird to count how many people of different ethnicity you know and how many live in your neighborhood.
Dejectedhead (83e1bc) — 3/21/2015 @ 12:28 pmfor eff’s sake stop digging
they think they’re npr
happyfeet (831175) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:11 pmI proudly showed my Jewish neighbors my google earth shot of their property that I’d superimposed this neat Jewish Badge thing I found on the internet onto so I could keep track of people like them and score high on the test. They seemed agitated and I swore I heard a little click of a safety, but seemed to understand when I told them it was the idea of some guy named Schultz.
steveg (794291) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:16 pmIt all turned out good. They were polite and promised not to shoot me unless I came on their property again
There is a lively discussion ta Althouse on this and Madison WI is having a good discussion of race relations.
The protesters, many from the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, marched into the theater holding a “Black Lives Matter” banner and chanting: “If we don’t get it, shut it down” and “Hey hey, hey ho, these killer cops have got to go.”
The debate was intended to focus on neighborhood issues like development, affordable housing, historic preservation and homelessness. But with the shooting dominating headlines and attention, much of the forum instead focused on police tactics, racial disparities and violence.
Madison is, of course, the center of Marxist thought for the Midwest. Although Bill and Bernadine Ayres are another.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:28 pmI’m disappointed it doesn’t bore into how many times you’ve had sex with someone of another race. That’s real #RaceRelations
Gordon Pasha (0f3978) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:34 pmMike K,
It’s all become so tedious.
Dana (86e864) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:37 pmA new Shelby Steele book about race and white guilt that sounds good. Unfortunately, the people who read his books are not the ones who need them.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:44 pmI read a great comment on another website (PowerLine perhaps?) in which a commenter wrote something along the likes of, “If I wanted to be grossly overcharged while being subjected to smug liberalism I would have signed up for ObamaCare.”
JVW (a1146f) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:47 pmThis is really in the same wheelhouse as OFA urging the bots to discuss the wonders of Obamacare at Thanksgiving dinner and emailing them talking points. And pajama boy with his cocoa. And hashtag diplomacy. And “ban bossy”. I am real sorry to see that the idiocy has seeped out into private business, though.
elissa (67292b) — 3/21/2015 @ 1:54 pmHere are my answers to the questions above:
JVW (a1146f) — 3/21/2015 @ 2:11 pm1. interesting
2. conservative
3. unborn
4. Starbucks-hating
5. {in order] Stealing from the company, Napping while at, Perusing internet porn at, Getting drunk while pretending to be, Wishing that I was still young enough to get in trouble at
6. it’s none of your goddamn business what
7. during these very trying
8. who has also cancelled the Los Angeles
9. athletic renown, who during their high school sports careers were known to have won many
10. at a crappy ethnic restaurant and then spent the night throwing up several
JVW,
You are not playing the game correctly. Typical privileged white guy thinking he’s above the rules!
Dana (86e864) — 3/21/2015 @ 2:18 pmThat “ban bossy” thing seemed aimed at anyone who might criticize Hillary. I don’t recall ever thinking of her as bossy until they brought it up. Obnoxious maybe, but not bossy.
steveg (794291) — 3/21/2015 @ 2:21 pmPresident Obama and his wife are both scolds but banning scolds seems unlikely to ever get a hashtag lest the Ayatollah think we are trying to silence him
Dear Starbucks: NFB.
f1guyus (9cbd15) — 3/21/2015 @ 2:29 pmThat “ban bossy” thing seemed aimed at anyone who might criticize Hillary. I don’t recall ever thinking of her as bossy until they brought it up. Obnoxious maybe, but not bossy.
Oh I always thought of Hillary! as bossy. Didn’t some comedian once say that she reminds every guy of his least-favorite college girlfriend, or something like that?
JVW (a1146f) — 3/21/2015 @ 2:41 pmDidn’t some comedian once say that she reminds every guy of his least-favorite college girlfriend
Or an ex-wife who got wide in the pants suit.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 3/21/2015 @ 3:09 pmJVW – Poetry to me.
mg (31009b) — 3/21/2015 @ 3:12 pmthanks for the laughs.
Greetings:
Not interested in murder, imprisonment, welfare recipient, out of wedlock birth rates but otherwise good propaganda value.
11B40 (844d04) — 3/21/2015 @ 3:27 pmI think the funniest thing about this insert is that its origin is probably one of two processes:
1) they generated it in-house using a committee of six Starbucks executives and fifteen employees who collectively spent 400 hours brainstorming, drafting, discussing, and approving it, or
2) they paid some racial grievance think tank or some second-rate university academic department $50,000 to come up with this garbage.
Either way, this tells me a lot about Starbucks and is a good reminder of why they need not be patronized by me.
JVW (a1146f) — 3/21/2015 @ 3:37 pmIt only matters to me, but never again will I go in a starburnts.
mg (31009b) — 3/21/2015 @ 3:43 pmGeez another test I’d flunk. Now on my little cul de sac in the hills of Glendale, I’ve got 5 Armenian families; I see and talk with all of them; my next door neighbors are a Japanese/Chinese couple; the house beyond was occupied by a gay couple, than by a straight white Midwestern couple; and the house beyond that by a Chinese couple. Glendale itself is 40 to 45% Armenian these days; lots of Koreans; Filipinos; Hispanics and virtually every Southeast Asian language you can think of. We’ve got over 100 languages spoken in the school district. But no Ebonics insofar as I can tell. Do I see African American faces in the streets and schools? Some, but the number is low.
But what the heck I’ll deal with African Americans once I’ve sorted out the 100 different ethnicities in town. And I suppose my friendships with Asian couples, gay friends, Armenian couples etc (since our straight white neighbors died, my wife and I are the token “white straights” on the street) won’t count for much with a Starbucks barista.
But somehow my sense of self worth has absolutely bupkis to do with what Howard Schultz, Erick Holder, Barack Obama, or some 20 year old kid behind a Starbucks counter thinks of me.
Skeptical Voter (12e67d) — 3/21/2015 @ 3:54 pmO/T
hadoop (657247) — 3/21/2015 @ 3:57 pmHey Millhouse, weren’t you the person pushing that bs about illegals will be showing up for their immigration hearing. Guess what pal, that ain’t happening!
JVW, the lousy coffee is why I avoid Starbucks. Corporate feelgoodism only reinforces the hope that they fail really soon.
kishnevi (91d5c6) — 3/21/2015 @ 4:05 pmJVW, the lousy coffee is why I avoid Starbucks. Corporate feelgoodism only reinforces the hope that they fail really soon.
Fortunately I am not a coffee drinker, so I have no reason to patronize them. Their green iced tea is OK, but their tea selection in general pales in comparison to Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf or Peet’s Coffee and Tea. I suppose I’ll soon find out that those latter two are also part of the Vast Progressive Indoctrination Complex and soon I won’t be able to patronize any tea purveyor.
JVW (a1146f) — 3/21/2015 @ 4:26 pmburnt beans
mg (31009b) — 3/21/2015 @ 4:27 pmwhite granulated sugar
white dairy products
palatable for the coexisters
posturing on race
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/21/2015 @ 4:57 pmall said done won’t amount to
one large hill of beans
some folks have said that
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/21/2015 @ 5:01 pmSeattle runs on blend of
coffee and hot air
plains of west Texas
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/21/2015 @ 5:05 pma flea-bit coyote howls
for cup o’ that joe
If we teach our children by example, work hard, act responsibly, be accountable, and live by Golden Rule, race relations will improve.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/21/2015 @ 5:20 pmWhen a cutomer REALLY starts to discuss race honestly in a Starbucks shop, will
GKH (1943bf) — 3/21/2015 @ 5:22 pmStarbucks be liable for the resulting property damage and personal injuries?
corporate Schultzes
mg (31009b) — 3/21/2015 @ 5:32 pmself healing speak
smiling heartbeat
problem solved
You saw this from Austin, I hope. The SJW rot is everywhere.
http://kxan.com/2015/03/20/austin-lawyer-adam-reposa-says-he-put-up-white-people-stickers/
Simon Jester (f1e8ac) — 3/21/2015 @ 5:42 pm… they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. …
What is it about this quotation that they do not get?
htom (4ca1fa) — 3/21/2015 @ 6:07 pmSimon Jester,
What an ill-informed clod he is. He claims that businesses on Manor Rd. in Austin are becoming white and pushing out the poor (minorities). However, I did a quick Google search of restaurants on Manor Rd. and the first three checked are owned by Hispanics. The Sugar Mama bakery, which he is sitting in front of, is owned by a married couple who put their talents together and opened the shop. They now employe 10 Austin residents and are do-gooders in the community. Their bio doesn’t mention their ethnic backgrounds, which surely they did on purpose! And, if you check out his website, well, if I were in need of a lawyer, I would risk defending myself rather than hire his sorry ass.
Dana (86e864) — 3/21/2015 @ 6:08 pmBut somehow my sense of self worth has absolutely bupkis to do with what Howard Schultz, Erick Holder, Barack Obama, or some 20 year old kid behind a Starbucks counter thinks of me.
Ultimately, the only thing such fools truly care about is whether you’re liberal or not. Or whether you’re a conservative and white. In those cases, bleech, go away and please stay far removed from us enlightened, sophisticated, humane human souls. Or whether you’re a conservative and non-white. In those instances, egaads! What is wrong with you?!! Go away and never let us see your face again. You’re a disgrace to your race, a traitor, a sell-out too!
Mark (c160ec) — 3/21/2015 @ 6:48 pm@31… This causing some recollective thought, I see that he (Shultz) was thinking ahead when he decided he didn’t want people with guns in his stores.
I’m wondering how this will work in my neighborhood where the largest portion of the minority population of the county is inside the walls at the local state prison. There is a great deal of diverse thought but not any potentially violent folk. Old red-neck cowboys and loggers and burnt-out hippies (real hippies) don’t look that different at this age. [That sorta sounds like David Allen Coe lyric, doesn’t it]
And the local used book store and also the gas station both have better coffee at half the cost…
Gramps, the original (9e1415) — 3/21/2015 @ 6:59 pmVan Jones says critics of Starbucks are making a big mistake:
Dana (86e864) — 3/21/2015 @ 7:27 pmOkay then.
Skeptical Voter #22 – so when do we gather together with others to form the Glendaliens of Pallor ?
Alastor (2e7f9f) — 3/21/2015 @ 7:42 pmYou missed the end part of the quiz:
Total your numbers from questions 1 to 10.
Now answer the following True/False questions:
11. I am White (T/F)
12. I am not Black (T/F)
13. The media says I’m white (T/F)
If your answer to ANY of the above three questions is “True”, then you are a racist, you white bastard PoS…
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 3/21/2015 @ 8:05 pmGuilty as charged!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/21/2015 @ 9:30 pmThey must be trying to defibrilate the coffee party back into existence.
Is it Weekend at Bernie’s, or Frankenstein’s monster?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 3/21/2015 @ 10:16 pm#22: Don’t forget the barrio down around Allen and San Fernando. I lived in there for a time in my poorer days.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/22/2015 @ 12:39 amHere’s the thought process behind this (I am NOT kidding):
“All these old white Republicans hate the President. They must not like
blacksAfrican-Americans, and/or have no contact with them. Let’s get them more sensitive so they can see the errors of their ways.”Really, liberals think like this (yet have no problem talking sh1t about Condi Rice, because THEY aren’t racists).
And of course, you can’t win. If you say you few friends “of a different race” (read: black), you’re an obvious racist, and if you say that a lot of your friends are black, you’re an obvious racist hiding behind your black friends.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/22/2015 @ 12:49 amFrom most relevant to brain dead stupid, these rank as follows:
2 — yeah, ok, I guess.
big gap
7 & 8: some people would say zero for any race, but ok.
10: not counting lunch with co-workers, I guess.
3: but kind of depends on where you live. Rural Minnesota everyone’s a Swede.
1: depends on cohort. If your parents were born before 1930 the answer will be zero.
another gap
4: this is a choice?
5: this is a choice? I live in Los Angeles, this is a gimme in all boxes.
9: I don’t know whether this is inane, offensive, or displays a desire for tokens
and then there’s 6, which involves “Facebook” which is the new Godwin test of stupidity.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/22/2015 @ 1:02 amLove this lady.
mg (31009b) — 3/22/2015 @ 3:11 amhttp://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/old_dogs_doing_old_tricks.html
I look forward to reading more. Cheers I am very enjoyed for this blog. Its an informative topic.
Johnny (34c60e) — 3/22/2015 @ 5:12 am😉
lived in Harlem for 4 years … most of my neighbors would have filled this form out with zero’s … Does that make them racist ? (from experience many where but not a majority)
KaiserDerden (faa0ee) — 3/22/2015 @ 6:46 amEven if you buy into a leftist perspective on race and racism in America, these questions are a fail. If you live in Idaho or New Hampshire (etc.) you’re not going to know a lot of Blacks or Asians. Racial minorities have free will too, and the fact that few of them choose to move to Idaho doesn’t make everyone in Idaho racially insensitive or a micro-aggressor or anything else that they should be embarrassed about. The same applies to suburbs or churches, except where the people therein are actually unfriendly to minorities.
Here’s a better question for White people: “How would you feel if your college-aged daughter brought home a Black boyfriend?” But I suspect that Starbucks wouldn’t dare ask that question, and that few know the answer unless they’ve already been there, on one end or the other.
David Pittelli (b77425) — 3/22/2015 @ 6:56 amI get tired of the burden being put solely on white people. Is this not a two way street? Why are blacks not confronted about their homogenous set of friends, their churches, and their choices?
Marci (c7079f) — 3/22/2015 @ 7:30 am@David Pittelli.
phunctor (14c87a) — 3/22/2015 @ 7:42 am1) Thank G*d, it’s a man!
2) Is he gonna make me some grandchildren?
3) Is he honorable and kind?
4) What are his prospects?
there’s so much nonsense
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/22/2015 @ 8:07 amBill Cosby sez “hey hey hey”
bunch of elite whites
why does starbucks hate black people
it makes no sense for them to alienate all these potential customers just cause of they’re african-american
plus it’s fundamentally unamerican
happyfeet (831175) — 3/22/2015 @ 8:26 amI will discuss race with the baristas when they are told to smile and replay with a hearty “you, too” when I wish them Merry Christmas.
Patricia (5fc097) — 3/22/2015 @ 8:40 amstarbucks ruined christmas when they got rid of the peppermint brownies
losers.
happyfeet (831175) — 3/22/2015 @ 8:42 amSeriously, what is it with the 1,000 meter? I spent four years of my life (ok, it was high school so it was wasted in any case but it’s the principle of the thing) trying to get to a 6-minute mile. To push myself just enough and to pace myself just enough. Then along comes some faggoty-ass European, probably a Frenchman, with “Non, non, messieurs, you are doing it all wrong. It is a kilometer”. Look, buddy! There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who use the metric system, and those who sent men to the Moon. Ok?
nk (dbc370) — 3/22/2015 @ 8:48 amPB & J
soup & a sandwich
salt & pepper
baristas and race
the new tomorrow is here.
mg (31009b) — 3/22/2015 @ 8:54 amlive by Golden Rule
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/22/2015 @ 9:21 amresponsible no malice
but ALL must do this
Things aren’t working out too well: <blockquote According to a recently released internal memo, Starbucks baristas will no longer write “Race Together” on customers’ cups starting Sunday.
Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson says the campaign to create discussion on diversity and racial inequality will continue without the handwritten messages, which are phasing out as originally planned.
The memo from CEO Howard Schultz says the cups were always “just the catalyst” for a broader conversation and the company will still hold forum discussions, co-produce special sections in USA TODAY and put more stores in minority communities as part of the Race Together initiative.
The initiative has been criticized as opportunistic and inappropriate, coming in the wake of racially charged events such as protests over police killings of black males.
Olson says the change is not a reaction to that pushback.
Dana (86e864) — 3/22/2015 @ 9:32 amIt is a sensitive subject. There’s probably a whole generation who don’t even know what the 100-yard dash is.
nk (dbc370) — 3/22/2015 @ 9:42 am#CoffeeNowShutUp!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/22/2015 @ 9:43 amstarbukkks owes all of us a huge apology i think
happyfeet (831175) — 3/22/2015 @ 9:45 am#BrownBeansWhiteCream #HoldTehSugarShugah
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/22/2015 @ 9:45 amI spent four years of my life (ok, it was high school so it was wasted in any case but it’s the principle of the thing) trying to get to a 6-minute mile. To push myself just enough and to pace myself just enough. Then along comes some faggoty-ass European, probably a Frenchman, with “Non, non, messieurs, you are doing it all wrong. It is a kilometer”
Typical European: trying to compare a kilometer (3280 feet) to a mile (5280 feet).
JVW (a1146f) — 3/22/2015 @ 10:28 amIt is a sensitive subject. There’s probably a whole generation who don’t even know what the 100-yard dash is.
That’s like where you catch the football at your own goal line and run it back for a touchdown, right?
JVW (a1146f) — 3/22/2015 @ 10:29 amI work all the time – and have for years – with people from another race. Sometimes the majority of my team are people from another race. I get along with them all and I think I have very good race relations with my coworkers.
I’m a software engineer, and the colleagues I’m speaking of are (nearly) all racially Asian (Chinese, Korean, Indian, Japanese, etc.). Does that count?
Yeah. I thought not.
David-2 (c608b2) — 3/22/2015 @ 10:54 am#49
How’s this from Michelle O’s mom?
In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign — and newly resurrected by Michelle Obama biographer Peter Slevin in a book due out next month — Marion Robinson confessed to being “a little bit” wary about her future son-in-law being the product of a white mom and black dad.
But it could’ve been worse, according to Robinson.
“That didn’t concern me as much as had he been completely white,”
steveg (794291) — 3/22/2015 @ 10:55 amSee that isn’t racism… it is “concern”. If a white mother has those type of concerns about her daughters fiance, she is racist.
steveg (794291) — 3/22/2015 @ 10:58 amThat is sorta long to fit on a cup though
“That didn’t concern me as much as had he been completely white,”
Interesting, huh? White men on average have higher incomes, a lower rate of divorce, and vastly lower rates of incarceration than their black male counterparts, so what other than general racism could explain Mrs. Robinson’s statement?
JVW (a1146f) — 3/22/2015 @ 11:04 am#46: mg, Clarice Feldman has it exactly right. We spend too much time chasing phantoms that have been constructed, embellished, and jammed down our throats by politicians and the LHMFM which serve only to distract us from what we should be doing. This Starbucks thing is a perfect example. I know a number of young adults who have worked for Starbucks, and they enjoyed the work and they were satisfied with the job, although it was only a temporary one while they were paying their way through college. They’re great kids, but they are not suitable instructors/moderators for such a topic, nor would they have wanted to put themselves in such a position. Of course there are the career Starbucks baristas who have parlayed multiple liberal arts degrees into a job that requires nothing they memorized in college but who nevertheless would only be too willing to instruct the rest of us on the nature of a life well lived.
Just regard this as yet another distraction while the slight-of-hand artists seek to escape notice for their very real and significant transgressions. Feldman makes a great point about the illegal activities of Obola’s henchmen in Israel as they attempted to steal an election, and their extraordinarily helpful treatment by the IRS in an effort to dodge serious legal issues. And then there is the Iranian fiasco. What Kerry, who is alleged to have spent a Christmas in Cambodia, considers “an important gap” is nothing less than Supreme Leader Khamenei’s affirmation that the goal of Iran is “Of course yes, death to America ..”. These are substantial issues, and I expect some of us will look back ten years from now wondering why we didn’t pay more attention when we might have made a difference.
Our obsession with sports is relatively harmless compared to our incessant need to gossip over the backyard fence about straw-men controversies staged to occupy us while corrupt and evil politicians rob our children of their future. I have a horrible feeling that the CEO of Starbucks is greasing the skids for a run at a Democrat Senate seat in the near future. At the very least he’s shown himself willing to play the administration’s game, which is an important attribute for those who seek to diminish the legislator’s powers our Constitutional government.
bobathome (ef0d3a) — 3/22/2015 @ 11:51 amOk so a highly educated white person, Harry Potter, and a black guy walk into a Starbukkks.
Harry Potter turns to the highly educated white person and says
happyfeet (a037ad) — 3/23/2015 @ 5:42 am“Are you Sirius Black?” And Kingsley Shacklebolt says, “No, I was joking, white”.
nk (dbc370) — 3/23/2015 @ 6:06 amIf you grew up in Montana fifty years ago, you must be a racist, since so very few people of color lived there.
Loren (1e34f2) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:52 amWhat’s a psychobiologist do?
rochf (f3fbb0) — 3/23/2015 @ 9:07 am