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| Now folks, you know me. | |
| I usually stay away from news that's going on, contemporary topics. | |
| But this one just pissed me off so much that I needed to say something about it. | |
| So Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, has decided that America needs to have a conversation about race. | |
| And so he has started the hashtag race together. | |
| And he's put it on all of his coffee cups and he's encouraged his employees to have conversations about the reality of race in the present day world. | |
| Now, we all know what this means. | |
| It means we're supposed to have a conversation about how we should feel guilty for being white, how we need to apologize for slavery that ended almost a century and a half ago. | |
| That we need to feel guilty all the time. | |
| And that whenever blacks commit crimes or assault police officers, that it's somehow a white person's fault for being racist in some obscure way that can't even be measured, and they have to resort to postmodern philosophy to define. | |
| Anytime a liberal talks about having a conversation about race, what they actually mean is a lecture. | |
| They are going to lecture you about race, and if you dare to disagree with a single point that they say, well then, sir, you are a racist, and we are going to try and get you fired from your job for holding such horrid, evil, wicked thoughts in your head. | |
| How dare you point out the African agency in the slave trade? | |
| How dare you point out that there are very real genetic differences between the races? | |
| How dare you point out the statistical difference in violent crime? | |
| How dare you use these hate facts against us? | |
| This is a conversation where we already know the conclusion. | |
| And if you're a good little boy, you will agree with our conclusion. | |
| Anytime a liberal says they want to have a conversation, this is the case. | |
| They've already reached their conclusions. | |
| They already know what their truth is, and they are now pushing it upon the world. | |
| This is the core of postmodernist philosophy, that truth is anything that you want it to be. | |
| That 2 plus 2 equals 4 is nothing but cultural hegemony. | |
| That it's just an opinion. | |
| And so if you say 2 plus 2 equals 5, well that's fine. | |
| That's just as true as 2 plus 2 equals 4. | |
| And now we're going to force it upon you with threats of violence. | |
| You know, sometimes it's a major threat of violence. | |
| You post a racist tweet in Britain, you might go to jail. | |
| Here, you'll just lose your job. | |
| But it is still a threat of violence. | |
| We are going to do something to harm you if you don't agree with us. | |
| And what more? | |
| Schultz is forcing the kids working at Starbucks, the employees. | |
| He's forcing them to have this conversation. | |
| Which leads us to the question, what if one of his employees disagrees with him? | |
| Is Starbucks putting out a pamphlet, a training procedure as to what political propaganda all of the employees are supposed to say when they talk about race. | |
| You know, if an employee says something that Schultz disagrees with, does that employee get fired? | |
| What happens when major arguments break out in your Starbucks? | |
| Because some of us don't give a damn and we're willing to speak the truth. | |
| What then? | |
| You know, these, I say kids, it's mainly kids, but there's older folks too. | |
| And hey, maybe I'll work at Starbucks at some point. | |
| Who knows? | |
| But these people working at Starbucks, they did not sign up to be a left-wing propaganda arm. | |
| They did not sign up to be PR people. | |
| You're paying them to sling coffee. | |
| And if you want somebody to publicly make bold statements about race, even if they're left-wing statements that probably won't damage the reputation, if you want somebody to make bold statements about race, why are they getting a minimum wage? | |
| Or whatever you pay them. | |
| It's not that much about minimum wage. | |
| I'm pretty sure PR people. | |
| If you want these people to be educated, to know the talking points, to know which rhetoric to resort to, I think you need to start paying them a little bit more. | |
| You know, you've taken these kids that you hired to sling coffee, and you're now forcing them to be propagandists. | |
| What the hell? | |
| And now, the irony of all of this, too, is that this extreme left-wing race is a social construct. | |
| No, it isn't. | |
| You know, white people are evil. | |
| No, they aren't. | |
| All of this, this white guilt, this BS, this extreme propaganda that's pushed in the universities, the newspapers, the high schools, you know, all of the mainstream, the HR policies, etc. | |
| This extreme, factually incoherent and psychotic belief system is the flip side of the coin of the extremely racist agenda. | |
| The people that hang out on the internet hating black people all day or hating any other race all day. | |
| You know, who build their self-esteem not upon their own accomplishments or the accomplishments of their race or any of them. | |
| Not a healthy self-respect, but this egoistic self-esteem based upon hating somebody else and pushing somebody else down. | |
| These are two sides of the same coin. | |
| And seriously, folks, that's why I get equal amounts of hate. | |
| Well, maybe there's more social justice, but I get hate from the social justice warrior side and from the white nationalist side. | |
| Because both of them demand that you agree with them 100%, else you are the enemy. | |
| You know, lefties are more likely to attack their own. | |
| And white nationalists, just another type of lefty, more likely to attack their own. | |
| Look at TJ Sodomaier. | |
| All of these people that go calling him a coon, they're black. | |
| They're black nationalists who spend all day hating Whitey as opposed to doing something positive for the black community. | |
| You know, this is the era of narcissism. | |
| This is the era of self-esteem, not self-respect, where everybody gets a trophy and where your self-worth isn't based upon something you accomplished and the failures that you learned from, but upon hating somebody else. | |
| And this race together BS. | |
| This agenda that a coffee shop is now pushing on us. | |
| This is just more of it. | |
| There's more. | |
| The truth doesn't matter. | |
| The facts don't matter. | |
| We are going to push upon you what we feel to be true. | |
| And if you're our enemy, that makes us feel better about ourselves. | |
| Because look at how high and mighty and holy and righteous we are. | |
| You are so wicked for daring to bring up a fact. | |
| Good lord. | |
| Now, listen, when Patriot Chicken, when its owners decide to come out against gay marriage, they didn't demand that any of their employees support their position. | |
| They didn't have any sort of campaign with their stores. | |
| You know, the liberals flipped out about it, of course, because how dare you disagree with me and bring up facts. | |
| But they didn't force anybody to do anything. | |
| They simply publicly stated, you know, as influential members of the community, this is our position. | |
| This gay marriage nonsense is a bunch of nonsense. | |
| But they didn't force anybody to go along with them. | |
| With Starbucks, though, I'll be really interested to see what happens if any of the employees have the cojones to stand up against Schultz's propaganda. | |
| In fact, I strongly recommend that. | |
| You'll probably get fired, but you might be able to sue their pants off for it afterwards, and they'd well deserve the lawsuit. | |
| Now, as for the rest of us, well, it really is a question of how choleric of temperament you are. | |
| You know, if you're a rather civilized person that doesn't like to start arguments, I recommend boycotting them. | |
| But if you happen to be a little bit tenacious, then this would be the perfect time to go get a cup of coffee and indulge in some fact-based and civil, but very uncomfortable lectures. | |
| And make sure you use your outdoor army voice for all of them. |