Leo D.M.J. Aurini - March 18, 2015


Starbucks Wants to #RaceTogether


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

133.1751

Word Count

1,384

Sentence Count

94

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

The Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has started a campaign called Race Together and is encouraging all of his employees to have conversations about the reality of race in the present day world. This is a conversation where we already know the conclusion, and if you disagree with it, you are a racist.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Music
00:00:28.720 Now, folks, you know me. I usually stay away from news that's going on, contemporary topics.
00:00:37.600 But this one just pissed me off so much that I needed to say something about it.
00:00:42.660 So, Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, has decided that America needs to have a conversation about race.
00:00:51.840 And so, he has started the hashtag race together.
00:00:55.280 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.
00:01:08.440 Now, we all know what this means.
00:01:11.800 It means we're supposed to have a conversation about how we should feel guilty for being white.
00:01:17.620 How we need to apologize for slavery that ended almost a century and a half ago.
00:01:23.360 That we need to feel guilty all the time.
00:01:27.840 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.
00:01:38.960 And they have to resort to postmodern philosophy to define.
00:01:43.640 Anytime a liberal talks about having a conversation about race, what they actually mean is a lecture.
00:01:50.500 They are going to lecture you about race.
00:01:55.020 And if you dare to disagree with a single point that they say, well then, sir, you are a racist.
00:02:02.300 And we are going to try and get you fired from your job for holding such horrid, evil, wicked thoughts in your head.
00:02:09.400 How dare you point out the African agency in the slave trade.
00:02:13.480 How dare you point out that there are very real genetic differences between the races.
00:02:17.820 How dare you point out the statistical difference in violent crime.
00:02:26.560 How dare you use these hate facts against us.
00:02:30.340 This is a conversation where we already know the conclusion.
00:02:34.740 And if you're a good little boy, you will agree with our conclusion.
00:02:38.180 Any time a liberal says they want to have a conversation, this is the case.
00:02:46.800 They've already reached their conclusions.
00:02:48.840 They already know what their truth is.
00:02:50.940 And they are now pushing it upon the world.
00:02:53.580 This is the core of postmodernist philosophy.
00:02:56.040 That truth is anything that you want it to be.
00:02:58.200 That 2 plus 2 equals 4 is nothing but cultural hegemony.
00:03:02.060 That it's just an opinion.
00:03:03.020 And so if you say 2 plus 2 equals 5, well that's fine.
00:03:06.420 That's just as true as 2 plus 2 equals 4.
00:03:09.240 And now we're going to force it upon you with threats of violence.
00:03:13.820 You know, sometimes it's a major threat of violence.
00:03:16.760 You post a racist tweet in Britain, you might go to jail.
00:03:21.820 Here, you'll just lose your job.
00:03:24.120 But it's still a threat of violence.
00:03:26.180 We are going to do something to harm you if you don't agree with us.
00:03:31.480 And what more?
00:03:33.740 Schultz is forcing the kids working at Starbucks, the employees, he's forcing them to have this
00:03:42.380 conversation.
00:03:43.880 Which leads us to the question.
00:03:45.520 What if one of his employees disagrees with him?
00:03:53.880 Is Starbucks putting out a pamphlet, a training procedure as to what political propaganda all
00:04:00.420 of the employees are supposed to say when they talk about race?
00:04:04.980 You know, if an employee says something that Schultz disagrees with, does that employee get fired?
00:04:09.300 What happens when major arguments break out in your Starbucks because some of us don't
00:04:18.800 give a damn and we're willing to speak the truth?
00:04:22.280 What then?
00:04:25.000 You know, these, these, I say kids, it's mainly kids, but there's older folks too.
00:04:29.040 And hey, maybe I'll work at Starbucks at some point.
00:04:31.020 Who knows?
00:04:31.660 But these, these people working at Starbucks, they did not sign up to be a left-wing propaganda
00:04:41.260 arm.
00:04:42.960 They did not sign up to be PR people.
00:04:46.780 You're paying them to sling coffee.
00:04:48.940 And if you want somebody to publicly make bold statements about race, even if they're left-wing
00:04:55.660 statements that probably won't damage the reputation, if you want somebody to make bold statements
00:05:00.820 about race, why are they getting a minimum wage?
00:05:05.660 Or whatever you pay them.
00:05:06.860 It's not that much about minimum wage.
00:05:08.160 I'm pretty sure PR people, if you want these people to be educated, to know the talking points,
00:05:12.640 to know which rhetoric to resort to, I think you need to start paying them a little bit
00:05:16.940 more.
00:05:17.720 You know, you've taken these kids that you, you hired to sling coffee and you're now forcing
00:05:22.620 them to be propagandists.
00:05:27.580 What the hell?
00:05:30.820 And now, the irony of all of this, too, is that, like, this extreme left-wing race is
00:05:41.400 a social construct.
00:05:42.360 No, it isn't.
00:05:43.420 You know, white people are evil.
00:05:45.520 No, they aren't.
00:05:46.880 All of this, this white guilt, this BS, this extreme propaganda that's pushed in the universities,
00:05:52.300 the newspapers, the high schools, you know, all of the mainstream, the HR policies, etc.
00:06:01.280 This extreme, factually incoherent and psychotic belief system is the flip side of the coin
00:06:10.780 of the extremely racist agenda.
00:06:15.000 The people that hang out on the internet, hating black people all day, or hating any other
00:06:22.800 race all day, you know, who build their self-esteem not upon their own accomplishments or the accomplishments
00:06:32.280 of their race or any of them.
00:06:34.800 Not a healthy self-respect, but this egoistic self-esteem based upon hating somebody else and
00:06:41.920 pushing somebody else down.
00:06:45.860 These are two sides of the same coin.
00:06:48.000 And that, seriously folks, that's why I get equal amounts of hate.
00:06:51.440 Well, maybe there's more social justice, but I get hate from the social justice warrior side
00:06:55.040 and from the white nationalist side.
00:07:00.600 Because both of them demand that you agree with them 100%, else you are the enemy.
00:07:06.880 You know, lefties are more likely to attack their own, and white nationalists, just another
00:07:12.300 type of lefty, more likely to attack their own.
00:07:14.480 Look at T.J.
00:07:15.540 Sotomayor.
00:07:17.220 All of these people that go calling him a coon, they're black.
00:07:20.720 They're black nationalists who spend all day hating whitey as opposed to doing something
00:07:26.420 positive for the black community.
00:07:30.160 You know, this is the era of narcissism.
00:07:33.420 This is the era of self-esteem, not self-respect, where everybody gets a trophy, and where your
00:07:38.680 self-worth isn't based upon something you accomplished and the failures that you learned
00:07:42.720 from, but upon hating somebody else.
00:07:45.100 And this race-together BS, this agenda that a coffee shop is now pushing on us, this is
00:07:59.660 just more of it.
00:08:00.700 There's more.
00:08:01.920 The truth doesn't matter.
00:08:03.120 The facts don't matter.
00:08:04.360 We are going to push upon you what we feel to be true, and if you're our enemy, that makes
00:08:09.040 us feel better about ourselves.
00:08:10.420 Because look at how high and mighty and holy and righteous we are.
00:08:13.780 You are so wicked for daring to bring up a fact.
00:08:17.380 Good lord.
00:08:22.140 Now listen, when Patriot Chicken, when its owners decide to come out against gay marriage,
00:08:31.880 they didn't demand that any of their employees support their position.
00:08:36.600 They didn't have any sort of campaign with their stores.
00:08:42.780 You know, the liberals flipped out about it, of course, because how dare you disagree with
00:08:47.340 me and bring up facts.
00:08:48.940 But they didn't force anybody to do anything.
00:08:51.480 They simply publicly stated, you know, as influential members of the community, this
00:08:57.400 is our position.
00:08:58.120 This gay marriage nonsense is a bunch of nonsense.
00:09:00.880 But they didn't force anybody to go along with them.
00:09:02.880 With Starbucks, though, I'll be really interested to see what happens if any of the employees
00:09:11.100 have the cojones to stand up against Schultz's propaganda.
00:09:16.620 In fact, I strongly recommend that.
00:09:18.820 You'll probably get fired, but you might be able to sue their pants off for it afterwards,
00:09:23.620 and they'd well deserve the lawsuit.
00:09:25.300 Now, as for the rest of us, well, it really, it's a question of how choleric of temperament
00:09:31.000 you are.
00:09:32.000 You know, if you're a rather civilized person that doesn't like to start arguments, I recommend
00:09:36.880 boycotting them.
00:09:38.840 But if you happen to be a little bit tenacious, then this would be the perfect time to go get
00:09:47.040 a cup of coffee and indulge in some fact-based and civil, but very uncomfortable lectures.
00:09:56.440 And make sure you use your outdoor army voice for all of them.
00:10:00.920 Anyway, Irini out.
00:10:17.040 I'll see you next time.
00:10:22.440 I'll see you next time.