PJ Media's Jim Treacher surrounds it with snark that assumes you think just like him:
Do you want to see a preview of the training video? You're curious, aren't you? It's gotta be exactly what you're expecting it to be, right?I am cringing at something. I'm cringing at that style of internet writing. It's like somebody figured out how to look — in text alone — like a super-casual asshole and now it's just standard internet writing. So tiresome! I feel as though I'm constantly being poked in the ribs and expected to laugh at all kinds of mundane things, like an earnest expression of the desire to make all customers in a coffeeshop feel welcome.
Right.
[VIDEO]
We'll now take a quick break so you can get all that cringing out of your system.
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Done? Whew. Yeah, all the money in the world can't buy common sense, but it can buy a guest appearance by rapper and activist Common.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 263 of 263like an earnest expression of the desire to make all customers in a coffeeshop feel welcome. - AA
But that's not what it's about, and you know it.
It's nothing more than Starbucks bending over to the mau-mauing of the racist left. It should be mocked.
"TreeJoe said...
Am I the only conservative & libertarian individual who thinks PJ Media is a race to the bottom for conservative-leaning media?"
Another "life-long" steps in. Welcome. Be happy. And understand - as a result of a crossfire hurricane, we're not in Kansas anymore. You are.
I think being proactive about giving an equal sense of privilege to black people is just fine and the baristas have to take the instruction if they want to work there and then just follow the policy. I don't see why righties bellyache about this sort of thing.
Because today it's Starbucks.
Yesterday it was a small, family bakery being bludgeoned for not baking a cake.
Righties are 'bellyaching' because who knows who's going to get gored tomorrow.
On further reflection,perhaps the time of these baristas would have been better spent in teaching them first aid procedures for overdoses. I don't think Starbucks should stock narcan, but the employees should know the basics of how to clear the vomit and maintain an open airway. Some knowledge of CPR would also be useful. Starbucks is to some extent assuming the burden of care for these poor unfortunates, and they have a duty to do it competently. I just hope it doesn't take a lawsuit to make them live up to their responsibility in this area.
I just wondering how much all the 'consultants' are scoring $$$$$ for their presentations today?
The Race Grievance-industrial complex must be fed.
@Althouse, to answer your original question, Treacher is a humor writer (which you might remember, since once upon a time you linked to him in your list of bloggers off on the right). Since having his knee destroyed by a Staye Department vehicle, and the DC police collaborated with the driver of that vehicle to falsely claim that Treacher was jaywalking, he has displayed a very skeptical view of Big Government and their allies. You are looking at Treacher’s form of humor, with a nasty stinger in the tail.
Hope their sensitivity training doesn't go this far: "A "sensitivity training″ program for Transportation Department workers turned into an intimidation session during which one individual after another was verbally "flayed,″ one participant says.
Another told a House subcommittee that she required hospital treatment for depression after the course and a third told of being groped by other people during one of the sessions.
The training programs at the Federal Aviation Administration and other parts of the Transportation Department were "an abuse of managerial discretion and startlingly poor judgment,″ Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., chairman of the House Appropriations transportation subcommittee, said Thursday.
One contractor running training courses said he studied a 35,000-year-old spirit called Ramtha for guidance, Wolf said, while other sessions called on people to be tied together, to stare at candles for hours and to take secrecy oaths."
A giant bucket of PC hogwash. Say all the right words and everyone will pat you on the back for being such an advanced, civilized person. " Meaningless twaddle" is an apt descriptor as well as "self-righteous assholism." A perfect illustration of the blinkered liberal set. How many black people live where Howard Schulz lives?
TreeJoe, I often feel the same way, not about PJ Media's writers and bloggers as its commentariat. It's weird to me (given that I was pretty much there at the birth of the movement) that a libertarian such as Glenn Reynolds now hosts a blog where the most frequent commenters are Dumb Trumpkins, nationalists and with increasing regularity Jew Haters. For me it's like belonging to an exclusive club and having intelligent conversations with cultured, well-educated people--with maybe Mozart or Bach playing softly in the background--when suddenly the door crashes open and in comes Cousin Eddie, Ocky Dildock* and the Bumpass clan, changing the music to loud country music,** and asking people, "What kind of last name is that, feller? Is that some kind of Jewish name?" (As a recheck once asked me despite the obvious--to any educated person--WASPisness of my surname.)
*Jean Shepherd's personification of what he called, The Great American Slob.
**I mean like that notorious song, someone's heard in redneck bars in Deliverance Country, in which the singer laments that his baby ran off with an n-word.
What I have never understood is why anyone who really enjoys good coffee would drink Starbucks burnt- roast coffee. It's terrible unless you overwhelm it with cream and sugar.
Here is the CNBC video of McDonald's former CEO's view, some common sense.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/29/tragic-that-starbucks-will-lose-customers-and-profit-today-says-former-mcdonalds-ceo.html
I absolutely think what happened in Philadelphia was wrong and I think this video was just a bunch of blathery nonsense. You just cannot train people to have common sense and humanity. They've been raised with it or they haven't. A lot of the video WAS cringe inducing. It felt phony and corporate and massaged to meaninglessness.
This training video will change people's behavior like Russian Facebook ads changed people's votes.
-LWL
And this.
"Nobody puts MSNBC in the corner – especially when it comes to exposing the relentless white racism and black victimization that are the staple of the wagging jaws at the flagship of racial delusion.
So when a couple of black people a few weeks ago wanted to use the restroom at a Starbucks in Philadelphia without buying anything, and they refused three requests from employees to leave and three more requests from the cops to do the same, Starbucks took the only action open to it: give the black people lots of free stuff, then hold a racial sensitivity training session for 177,000 employees of Starbucks."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/how_to_fail_todays_starbucks_racial_sensitivity_training.html#ixzz5Gv3TjXYJ
Here is a good question.
"Question 8: Do you think it is safer for a white people to move into a black neighborhood or vice versa?"
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/how_to_fail_todays_starbucks_racial_sensitivity_training.html#ixzz5Gv564OYs
What if in the conversation about our identities part of the training, one person says, "My identity is Person Who Doesn't Think It's His Employer's Business What His Identities Are"?
Related: do most people feel strongly affiliated with certain "identity" categories? I wonder.
It isn't mundane. It's propaganda. It's turning Starbucks into a WokeBucks. FUCK THAT! It isn't "live and let live." It isn't colorblindness. It's - "you're all bigots, you just don't know it." It's a microfocus on every potential identity at the expense of treating everyone the same regardless.
I mean, the gal in the video found some junkie shooting up in the bathroom and she's the one who is supposed to feel bad? That puts all other customers and employees at risk. That junkie should be kicked the fuck out, not "understood". That might not be an easy situation for a SB employee, but the company should let her know they've got her back, not they're going to make a public example of her because the junkie has the right skin tone and cellphone.
I just want a fucking latte and sometimes a place to sit and drink it. I don't want a "conversation" about race or religion or politics or bathrooms. As with most leftist endeavors, this one will have the opposite effect and make things worse, not better.
Glenn Reynolds now hosts a blog where the most frequent commenters are Dumb Trumpkins, nationalists and with increasing regularity Jew Haters
The DNC speaks up.
“... like an earnest expression of the desire to make all customers in a coffeeshop feel welcome.“ Jeez! Seriously?
You send out a memo to all employees stating what is required to make customers welcome and promising to fire anyone who doesn’t comply. You also explain that the standard will be meeting the requirements, not how customers “feel.” Management 101.
This Starbucks ploy is self-flagellation at the shareholders’ expense to appease the woke crowd. Rival coffee shops must be orgasmic.
Btw, the content of the video is likely predictable and certainly irrelevant. Howard ought to be canned or required to forfeit his salary until the losses are recovered.
"I mean, the gal in the video found some junkie shooting up in the bathroom and she's the one who is supposed to feel bad? That puts all other customers and employees at risk."
I have to agree. Are dirty needles going to be part of the ambiance? Why should this woman be expected to clean a restroom where you don't even bar people from shooting up? Where is the concern for her safety? Do they lack concern because she is a woman of color?
William 1:14 Great point.
Wm. Chadwick wrote: “... Glenn Reynolds now hosts a blog where the most frequent commenters are Dumb Trumpkins, nationalists and with increasing regularity Jew Haters. For me it's like belonging to an exclusive club and having intelligent conversations with cultured, well-educated people--with maybe Mozart or Bach playing softly in the background--when suddenly the door crashes open and in comes Cousin Eddie, Ocky Dildock* and the Bumpass clan, changing the music to loud country music ....”
Jew haters? Mr. Chadwick evidently doesn’t read many secprog blog comment sections, particularly those where the topic is conservative Jews or Israel.
Otherwise, Peggy Noonan had him in mind when she wrote: "... It’s the big fact of American life now, isn’t it? That we are patronized by our inferiors” Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 2016.
Real American,
I don't think the worker's response to the junkie was told. That's why I wondered about it previously in thread.
Haven't heard of workers being instructed to initiate woke discussions either.
Try a decaf Fucking Latte. (those are pricey and take longer)
This whole thing is more destructive than most think. If people who follow rules and norms notice people who don’t getting rewarded they start to feel like suckers. The more that happens the less they feel like following the rules. How often does that have to happen before things start to come apart, before Denmark turns into Greece? I don’t know, but my guess is not as often as you might think.
Those of you who bought unwanted crap just to use a bathroom, and now feel a bit put out, raise your hand.
Walter
Starbucks had a huge, woke“nag customers about race” campaign a couple years ago. You new to America? I cannot believe you really didn’t notice.
It will be interesting to see what limits will be put on "community" groups that decide to hold meeting in Starbucks' "Third Space".
“Glenn Reynolds now hosts a blog where the most frequent commenters are Dumb Trumpkins, nationalists and with increasing regularity Jew Haters”
“The DNC speaks up.”
William Chadwick is a right winger. Maybe you’re so busy chasing liberals off your lawn, that you don’t know who is a conservative.
Sorry Ken..going by what's being discussed now. Is it a thing now? I haven't encountered it.
Been here a long time, fella.
Perhaps the problem could be solved to everyone's satisfaction if Starbuck's set aside some space for "diabetic relief" rooms.
Would they be locked or accessible to any "diabetic" wandering in off the streets? Racial racketeers gotta know.
One point I don't recall seeing raised/answered: was the nevertobesufficiently-excoriated rational business practice of barring restroom access to non-customers a system-wide diktat issued by corporate execs, compulsory whether the individual store was a franchise or a Starbucks-owned outlet? Because if it was, then it's totally Howard's fault-- his and his management cronies, so why waste time on re-education camps for the wretched rank-and-file? Why aren't we getting to see videos of Howard et al. being screamed at and tormented for their wrong-think? If, on the other hand, it was the individual store's decision, why is the punishment and penance system-wide?
Actually, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to all three questions. Just asking, is all.
"I guess I am old fashioned because I would not think of going into a retail business and using the bathroom without buying anything."
This is actually how I found out how good NY pizza is. I was driving up 5th Ave into Midtown from Harlem and Spanish Harlem and began to need a restroom. It suddenly became clear there was no place to stop and nowhere to go. I retraced my path and stopped at a pizza place at the Spanish Harlem outskirts. I figured I'd use the facilities and buy a slice. Best pizza I'd ever had up to that point.
That was in 1994 on my first visit to NYC.
The diversity racket is represented by the black whore... I mean, black hole. There is no black hole, it's gray. There is no [color] diversity bias, Starbucks policy was equal, not "=" (i.e. politically congruent).
Do university teachers undergo a yearly training video that instructs them how to interact with students with viewpoints they don't agree with, and to be inclusive and welcoming to all political perspectives?
Because I would like to see the link to THAT video.
Can't improve on LVL's sentiments, except that I'd sponsor similar training for middle and high school teachers as well.
"I like my coffee like I like my women".
"Black"?
"No...instant".
William Chadwick is a right winger. Maybe you’re so busy chasing liberals off your lawn, that you don’t know who is a conservative.
Inga, no conservative uses those terms. You might be talking about a MOBY but your statement that anyone who would say that is conservative is ludicrous.
I read several blogs at PJ, including Belmont Club. You should check it out.
You might learn something.
Well............. maybe not.
Sad that liberal bias is OK but racial bias as defined by liberals is not. The so-called bias resulted from company rules involving use of restrooms by non-customers - so why did 120,000 employees have to be subjected to this BS? Methinks a better answer would be to fire the stupid rule-maker and that buck stops with the CEO.
Starbucks says that the "training" will cost the company $12 million in profits - but that is because these super-smart libs don't understand America's service bias. Now that the plug has been pulled and customers have been offended, tracking future sales volume will be an interesting project.
No, hombre, I don't read many "secprog*" blogs any more than I visit fundamentalist churches. The experience per se won't harm me; but why dunk myself into a morass of superstition and dopeyness? But I know Jew Haters when I smell them--as well I should, since I grew up among them. One of my closest and most beloved relatives often ranted about "the Hebes;" although oddly her best friend and "office husband" was of the Hebe persuasion. (To her credit, she encouraged me to get an education, saying, "You don't want to grow up and be like us, all prejudiced and afraid of people who are different from us.")
Inga (for once in her life) is correct about something: I am a "right winger," using that term in the current a-historical, bastardized sense of the term. As many of you probably know, the term originated in the parliament of Ancien Regime France, where the pro-Royalist authoritarian faction tended to sit together in the right wing of the building. Today "right wing" is an almost meaningless umbrella term that includes pacifist libertarias of the Robert LeFevre variety and Rothbardian anarcho-capitalists to National Socialists. An umbrella term that groups Hayek and von Mises with Hitler and Mussolini is a pretty useless umbrella, shot full of holes by history and logic. If anyone is on the authoritarian side these days, it's "liberals," the New Tories. ("Liberalism --ideas so good they have to be mandatory," as the joke goes.)
Jonah Goldberg in his LIBERAL FASCISM traces the current bastardized usage of "right wing" to the Stalinists who applied it to Trotsky and basically anyone critical of Uncle Joe. Now, like "racist," it's come to mean "anyone who makes 'progressives' mad." But speaking of Goldberg, one of the Dumb Trumpkins posting on Instapundit called JG a "left winger." I had the temerity to ask why, and he accused me of being a left winger, too: I just HAD to be. According to this Rhodes Scholar, anyone who is critical of Trump is a left winger. I am not making this up.
" According to this Rhodes Scholar, anyone who is critical of Trump is a left winger. I am not making this up."
Well there are LLRs and left wingers. Which are you ?
"Why do third parties hate seeing anyone pay the Danegeld?"
A real mystery, Professor.
"Because once you have paid him the Dangeld
You never get rid of the Dane."
And if you're actually calling it Dangeld, it follows that you are fully aware that it is blackmail and the more entities extorted into paying protection money racketeers, the worse your own chances of withstanding the same demand when it's leveled at you.
Inga, and Chadwick whoever you are (blank profile again), I'm willing to concede that some Muslims may be offended by links like this about British PC insanity, but I would have to know what post had anti-Semitic comments.
Too few women and people from ethnic minority groups cycle in London and more must be done to promote diversity among a largely white, male and middle class biking community, the city’s walking and cycling commissioner has said.
Grand schemes, such as the Cycle Superhighway network of partially-segregated routes linking the suburbs with the centre, are too often perceived as simply a way of getting “middle-aged men cycling faster around the city”, Will Norman acknowledged.
Instapundit, if you have ever looked at it, is a link accumulator like Drudge. There are comments but I have never seen what you describe.
Obviously from the lowlives that post comments here, we must assume they are not the responsibility of the blogger.
I call bullshit on Mr Chadwick.
Then there is this linked piece at Instapundit that does mention Jews.
Is that what you meant, Mr Chadwick ?
Chadwick is giving off a very strong LLR Chuck vibe.......
Looked like a drive-by hit job, Drago.
Who is TreeJoe anyway ?
PJ has Richard Fernandez, one of the best commentators on the internet.
I think it's all BS.
The giveaway is that Inga loves them.
I think the volume of comments at Insty ballooned when he went Disqus. Definitely saw some of the anti-Semitic stuff when I visited there some time ago. But again, just a fraction of the many comments.
Insty has such a doggy/laggy interface on my lowly PC...I skip the comments and just check out the links.
Was a bit disappointed by Glenn's early reaction to the Rosanne fiasco.
Risks of elevating celebs.
I rarely look at the comments at Insty but the slurs are not deserved. To be expected from LLRs.
Hold on to your hats, The OIG Report is coming June 5.
I'll be in a campground in northern Idaho.
Blogger walter said...
I think the volume of comments at Insty ballooned when he went Disqus
The comments at every blog I read went up when Trump got going in 2016.
William Chadwick said...
‘No, hombre, I don't read many "secprog*" blogs any more than I visit fundamentalist churches. The experience per se won't harm me; but why dunk myself into a morass of superstition and dopeyness, but I know Jew Haters when I smell them--as well I should, since I grew up among them. One of my closest and most beloved relatives often ranted about "the Hebes;" although oddly her best friend and "office husband" was of the Hebe persuasion....’
Thank you for sharing all that. I don’t think, taken as a whole, that it illustrates what you wanted it to.
And, ‘... I am a "right winger," using that term in the current a-historical, bastardized sense of the term. As many of you probably know, the term originated in the parliament of Ancien Regime France, where the pro-Royalist authoritarian faction tended to sit together in the right wing of the building....
Jonah Goldberg in his LIBERAL FASCISM traces the current bastardized usage of "right wing" to the Stalinists who applied it to Trotsky and basically anyone critical of Uncle Joe....’
I see. “Liberal Fascism” sits on my bookshelf next to a well-worn three volume set of von Mises’ “Human Action” which I received years ago from the National Review Conservative Book Club. I’m thinking of moving Goldberg off to the left — not that I’m a Jew Hater, mind you.
But I digress. For some reason I am reminded of Peggy Noonan’s observation: "... It’s the big fact of American life now, isn’t it? That we are patronized by our inferiors” Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 2016.
Drago said that I give off a very strong "LLR Chuck vibe." Not sure what exactly that means because I find the whole Chuck vs the World thing here kind of boring and ignore most of the Chuck-related posts. But I gather it means a kind of Moby who pretends loyalty to one faction who is secretly loyal to its opponent. Anyone who is (a) halfway literate, (b) has an IQ greater than an amoeba's, and (c) has actually read my posts would know that's baloney. I am very un-secretly loyal to liberty, and very un-secretly opposed to statists and statism. If that puts me into conflict with anyone or any faction, so be it.
Recently our hostess observed the passing of Tom Wolfe, and lately, watching thoppe comments sections on PJ Media increasingly dominated by stupid people,* I think of a Balzac quote Wolfe invoked on Buckley's "Firing Line." Wolfe was talking about Radical Chic and how many people were mind-raping him and assuming he held philosophical positions that he actually didn't. Wolfe said that at the risk of sounding pompous, he agreed with Balzac, who in a similar position, with enemies and former friends questioning which "side" he was on, said "I am on the side of truth, which is always in the opposition." I'd rather say I'm on the side of liberty, which is always in opposition to statism--whichever faction is pushing it.
Thank you for that semi-educated mishmosh, hombre. Not sure what your point is but I gather I'm a bad person. To paraphrase Sol, the Hebe of Deadwood, "I've been called worse by smarter."
Where is the bullshit, Michael? I don't recall making comments pro or con about Muslims, although I will go on record as saying that I think all religions are pretty much "buncombe and bosh" (John Wayne/Alamo reference for those who care). But
people can believe any bushwa they choose to believe until coercion rears its ugly head. (This goes for you, too, "liberals.") If you think I'm inventing the Jew hatred I've encountered among the Instapundit commentariat, for some arcane motive your obviously perceptive mind has detected, all I can say is we haven't read the same comments. Usually it comes out when I comment on the comment: the mask drops and out comes a well-thumbed copy of Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or wherever the Stupid Right is getting its talking points from these days. (But if you want to see what I'm talking about, monitor the comments of "Severn.")
Blogger William Chadwick said...
‘Thank you for that semi-educated mishmosh, hombre. Not sure what your point is but I gather I'm a bad person. To paraphrase Sol, the Hebe of Deadwood, "I've been called worse by smarter."’
“Semi-educated mishmash?” Wow! You are a pillar of self-awareness, William. Lol!
Give ‘im another blast, Peggy. He missed the first one: "... It’s the big fact of American life now, isn’t it? That we are patronized by our inferiors” Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 2016.
William Chadwick: "Drago said that I give off a very strong "LLR Chuck vibe." Not sure what exactly that means..."
LOL
Wm Chadwick: Thank you for that semi-educated mishmosh, hombre. Not sure what your point is...
If I add my bit to this fest of high-brow references and allusions, I believe hombre is expressing the considered opinion that you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
American fascism is when all the Amazon trucks run on time stoked by Starbucks coffee.
Ha! I happen to have watched that movie (not for the first time) this week, Angle.
“Glenn Reynolds now hosts a blog where the most frequent commenters are Dumb Trumpkins, nationalists and with increasing regularity Jew Haters”
Yeah, Will, there's a grain of truth in what you say. I would need you to elaborate on the categories and their exemplars /examples.
What is a dumb Trumpkin? As opposed to a non-dumb Trumpkin?
How do nationalists intersect? Is nationalism bad? I know dumb is bad.
The Jew-haters are interesting to further categorize. Some are products of their environment like you depict, some are disruptors, some pretend to scholarship on the issue. Some demagogue, some have been demagogued.
I think you got slammed here because your remark was jarring and wanted foundation. But I always think of H. Beam Piper's words:
Young man, the conversation was between Lord Trask and myself. And when someone says something you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means. What DO you mean, Lord Trask?
Captain Otto Harkaman in Space Viking (1962-1963)
Next Tuesday: Company wide training on how to brew coffee.
I read that before I read your take. I did not find the video cringe worthy. A bit treacle, as I find all these we are the world sort of pseudo religious events. But “super asshole” wow that is some reaction, a bit cringe worthy. Reminded me a bit of your spiking the ball int the end zone of SCOTUS gay marriage decision.
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