The holiday season is looming ever closer, and it’s already bringing exactly what we’ve come to expect of it—hordes of individuals complaining over stupid things, like a retail worker who says “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” or the color of a Starbucks cup.
The day after Halloween, Starbucks rolled out the design for a new, limited-edition green cup, the face of which is composed of a “mosaic of more than a hundred people drawn in one continuous stroke.” Starbucks’ CEO, Howard Shultz, explained in a press release that artist Shogo Ota’s design, which connects people from coffee farmers to baristas to customers by one thread, is meant to be a symbol of stitching people together as a united community, reminding us that we are all connected and should be kind to one another.
So how did humanity take to Starbucks’ new symbol of unity and kindness?
@Starbucks FUCK YOU STARBUCKS!
— Tunein2112 (@Tuneinow) November 1, 2016
@Starbucks Just sell us coffee and quit trying to push you globalist, progressive agenda of inclusion. F*ck… I’m just gonna go to Circle K
— Weasel (@sickapc) November 2, 2016
@Starbucks stop pushing your liberal bullshit and sell coffee. Lifelong customer becoming disgusted with the forced agenda. #HolidayCupsNow
— Archie Bunker (@ArchieBunker19) November 1, 2016