The interwebs have been flooded with outrage this week about cups. No, seriously, Christians were pissed off about red Starbucks cups, because…..WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!! But, now after much drama and lots of bullsh*t hashtags on social media, Starbucks has responded to their haters — and it was perfect.
First of all, as you are probably aware, the outrage first started when former pastor and well-known bigot, Joshua Feuerstein, made a video ranting about the new red holiday cups. He said:
I think in the age of political correctness we’ve become so open minded our brains have literally fallen out of our head. Do you realize that Starbucks wanted to take Christ and Christmas off of their brand new cups? That’s why they’re just plain red.
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Last year the cups featured “Christmas” trees and snowflakes, but they didn’t say “Merry Christmas” anywhere on them. Actually, in all of the years that I have been drinking Starbucks — I drink so much Starbucks I could probably pay an employee’s salary all year — the cups have never mentioned Christmas on them. They are usually just cute cups with snow on them or something related to snow. So, Feuerstein’s gripe is really and truly asinine.
Noting the outrage over their cups, a Starbucks representative issued a statement explaining that the company created the red cups with their iconic green logo to “create a culture of inclusion”:
In response to the video, our core values as a company is to create a culture of belonging, inclusion and diversity. Each year during the holidays we aim to bring our customers an experience that inspires the spirit of the season and we will continue to embrace and welcome customers from all backgrounds and religions in our stores around the world.
It’s stupid that the company even had to spell that out. First of all, snow and pine trees are hardly representative of Christ. Last time I looked, Jesus wasn’t born in upstate New York, in a manger surrounded by snow. I live in Florida, the state where we decorate palm trees. Did I bitch, moan and complain because the cups didn’t have palm trees and sunshine on them? NO! Because I’m not an idiot.
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Maybe the people who are so outraged over a damn red cup should go out and volunteer at a homeless shelter. Or adopt a family to send gifts to this year. Maybe they can go to a neighborhood of low-income families and pay someone’s electric bill or anything else that would actually represent what Jesus was about.
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Starbucks had the perfect response, but we don’t expect the fake Christians to understand it; they have no idea what it means to be “inclusive.”
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Boycott them!! Drink Sanka!!!
Hahah is Sanka still around?
The “War on Christmas” is just like Christmas music. It starts earlier and earlier with each passing year and somehow becomes easier to ignore.
Much ado about nothing! Seems like the right is not happy unless they have something to complain about. How about instead of complaining about cups of a coffee company you all do what Jesus would want you to do if you were true christians……feed the poor, heal the sick, visit those in prison, and so on and so on and so on…..that is in the bible after all and are Jesus’ words about what he wants us to do!!!
But why help others when they could be helping themselves. The only type of helping others they do is trying to help others believe all this persecution nonsense they keep spouting.
How about showing them how to help themselves or give them incentive by telling them you care! Your compassion compass is skewed!
Patricia, your reading comprehension compass is skewed. April was referring to the hypocritical right wingers when she said they don’t help others, they only help themselves.
Am I the only one who took one look at these cups and thought, “Well, gee, that’s Santa red.” Pretty sure Santa isn’t a Hannukah elf.
I did too.
Isn’t the founder of Starbucks Jewish? Why woutgld you expect his company to promote a Christian myth like Santa?
People are to sensitive now. It seems that every little thing will set them off into a damn rant on social media. I bet if Starbucks released a cup that has more than three colors,they will claim that Starbucks is promoting and encourages homosexuality. If this guys is so religious, maybe he should release his own cups.
I would like to skip Christmas…and yes I’m a Christian. It is a commercial time of the year, a time that we feel forced to buy gifts that we would not normally buy for people we would not normally buy for. I just want it to be over and done with. The stress of it all is too much for me. Buy your kids a few gifts if you want to and let it go. That’s not what it’s suppose to be about any way.
Especially since the day it’s celebrated isn’t even Christ’s birthday.
Target had Christmas stuff out before Halloween this year. Please. It seems to start earlier and earlier every year.
I like Christmas it is a free pass to eat loads drink more, be with family and two days holiday. Oh and all the pressys. I am an atheist so don’t do the god thing
Starbucks and this ‘author’ (I’m using this term very, very, loosely) are the dopes here. If people were OK with the non-religious winter imagery of last year’s cups, then why the HECK has Starbucks removed these harmless and inoffensive depictions, implying that it ‘excludes’ someone? It’s completely contradictory. It’s either religious or it’s not. The ‘author’ just sounds like an incompetent raving loon.