K, Pythagoras, take a step back and realize that we're commenting on a parody video. This isn't official Starbucks training. Guys like you are just so wound up that even a video like this gets your panties into a wet knot about the political left.
The point I was making is that Starbucks retraining its front line workers (like what happened to the idiots that got that store into the newspapers) is not a reflection of deeply held social beliefs, it's just a measure to ensure that they keep making money. If I held Starbucks shares (like many conservatives do), you'd best believe I wouldn't want some ****ing moron at the counter pissing off my customers, regardless of whether they're the KKK, the Taliban, or the Care Bears, because they'd walk across the street to Tim Hortons where the person at the cash register might not be so stupid as to piss them off. The workers will learn to talk in such a way as to not annoy anyone whether they're card carrying Klan members or pink haired feminists.
In your little mind, it may seem like retraining the workers is "pandering to SJW victimhood" because you seem to believe there's some sort of battle for hearts and minds going on. In the shareholders' minds, they don't give a damn what the people at the register believe, they just want their stores to stay out of the headlines and for the cash to keep rolling in.
Take your own advice on seeing beyond the tip of your nose. You're a lot simpler than you think you are and you're a sucker for this right wing outrage porn.
The video is satire indeed and its funny because its true. You seem to be missing that point. This is indeed what is really happening to our society and if you can't draw from the video and make that connectiont, well then i guess you'll never see the point im making.
Starbucks is retraining it's employees for what? There was no wrong doing. No racism. Just because the fellows happened to be black doesnt make it a racist issue. The issue is not that Starbucks is trying to train it's employees to be polite or to better serve people. They are training them to understand their bias! What bias is that? A customer doesnt wanna buy anything and hangs out at the locatoin and refuss to leave so someone calls the police. Is that not what usually happens?
Go hang out at any restaurant, sit there for an hour and refuse to order, yet demand to use their facilities and see the reaction you'll get. regardless of your race.
If the exact same thing had happened to a white man, it wouldve never made the news let alone win a case and trigger starbucks to train all its employees nation(s) wide!
As for the shareholders, there is also a huge backlash to Starbuck's move now and many are refusing to shop there. So is it really the best for the shareholders? Remains to be seen i guess.
But the issue goes far beyond starbucks. This video is highlighting a very real and scary reality that some groups in our society can scream vicrimhood and offence and never be held accountable for anything they do. While the other group has to tiptoe around these minorities because no matter how right or wrong they maybe in their behaviour, they will immediately be branded as racist, homophobe, islamophone and shutdown before the facts are even present.
You seem to be stuck on the fact that this video is a comedy and cant seem to see that it is made to highlight the reality that very much exists in our society and is getting worse by the day.
We live in a society that is infected with this identity politics that the left has brought. A society that we now (for example) have 50+ genders and if you dare question it or refuse to live in this delusion, youll be dealt with by the hand of the law (bill c-16) or if you call the police on a black family, using a bbq in a publikc park where signs clearly states, no bbq, you will be branded racist just because they were black. Completely ignoring the fact that what they were doing was against the law.
Are you starting to see the bigger picture yet? All of this is connected and is the fruits of leftist policies decade after decade, dividing one society into pockets and groups where some can do no wrong, and some will only do wrong
