{"id":7289,"date":"2015-03-19T06:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T06:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/19\/the-foolish-suggestion-of-starbucks-ceo\/"},"modified":"2015-03-19T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T06:10:47","slug":"the-foolish-suggestion-of-starbucks-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/19\/the-foolish-suggestion-of-starbucks-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foolish Suggestion of Starbuck’s Chief Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"If-i-agreed-with-you-we-d-both-be-wrong-funny-poster\"<\/a>Starbuck's CEO, Howard Schultz, wants his baristas to write "Race Together" on coffee cups to facilitate a conversation about race between baristas and customers and presumably also among customers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now this is profoundly stupid \u2014 assuming it is not just a cynical try at boosting sales.  I'll  be charitable and assume the former.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who has been paying attention will have noticed that we agree on less and less, and not for a lack of 'conversations' about the issues that divide us.  The notion that more talk will help is foolish when what we need is less conversational engagement and more agreement to avoid divisive issues, together with the resolve to interact as well as we can on the common ground that remains \u2014 such as love of coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here there is (are) common ground(s)!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Coffee<\/a><\/p>\n

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Starbuck's CEO, Howard Schultz, wants his baristas to write "Race Together" on coffee cups to facilitate a conversation about race between baristas and customers and presumably also among customers. Now this is profoundly stupid \u2014 assuming it is not just a cynical try at boosting sales.  I'll  be charitable and assume the former. Anyone who … Continue reading “The Foolish Suggestion of Starbuck’s Chief Executive Officer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}