Is Starbucks brewing a 'War On Christmas'? Holiday cup has no candy canes, reindeer, or snowmen

[Liberal_in_LA]

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USA USA UPDATE
Is Starbucks brewing a 'War On Christmas'?
This week, Stabucks unveiled new cups for the holiday season, which are solid red with the green Starbucks logo in the middle, with no candy canes, reindeer, or snowmen.

Starbucks invited controversy this week with new cups that are solid red with the green Starbucks logo in the middle.

While the cups' design may not seem objectionable on its face, the absence of snowmen, reindeer, candy canes and other iconography has prompted some to accuse the coffee company of waging a ‘War On Christmas'.

Breitbart London reports that MP David Burrowes, a conservative Christian of the British Parliament, has criticized Starbucks, saying “The Starbucks coffee cup change smells more of political correctness than a consumer-led change.” Burrowes added, “The public has a common sense grasp on the reality that at Christmas time, whether you have a Christian faith or not, Britain celebrates Christmas.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/1108/Is-Starbucks-brewing-a-War-On-Christmas




2008 cup

[uppityperson]

1. Tell fundies its obviously in support of PP

I mean, come on. Red with a person inside? What could it be but promoting free abortions at any time for any reason.

Just in case it isn't obvious from my sig line

[smirkymonkey]

3. LOL!

Seriously, these people must have some serious time on their hands.

[uppityperson]

4. AND you drink the coffee, removing the contents of the red cup!!!!!

Distract fools and they won't notice the really bad stuff.

[immoderate]

2. Benghazi!

--imm

[ileus]

5. Christmas isn't about candy canes, reindeer, or snowmen...

WTF???


This complaint is more stupid than the Christ in Christmas whining we normally see.

[GeorgeGist]

6. No comment ...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. I'm going to guess they saved a penny or two per cup in making the design that simple.

Maybe even just a fraction of a cent, but when you sell cups by the millions, a fraction of a cent adds up.

[Freddie]

8. FFS get a life people.

It's overpriced burnt coffee no matter what cup it's in.

[liberal N proud]

9. Tell them to go to wal mart

They have Merry Christmas all over the store

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

10. Plain dumb

There is something wrong with you if you find red cups controversial.

[Initech]

21. There's also something wrong with you...

If you actually give a shit what store says "Merry Christmas" and what store says "Happy Holidays". :

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

45. Yes, I agree with you on that. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Oh bother us with this holiday bs, please.

Really?

[KT2000]

12. good business move

they can use the cups past the holiday

[restorefreedom]

22. that was my thought.

although i would be happy to see reindeer anytime

[DFW]

13. You'd think western civilization had solved all other problems of 21st century life

And the only thing left to argue over is the nature of voodoo symbols found on cardboard coffee cups.

[PATXgirl]

14. If you distract the masses with "controversial" cups, they'll lose sight of all the shit that matter

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Because candy canes, reindeer and snowmen say "Middle Eastern birth" like nothing else, eh?

Dumb fuck MP. And Breitbart and "Simon Calvert of the Christian Institute" too, of course. calvert gets paid to be a Christian, and hasn't the first idea of what the Christian parts of Christmas are about.

[eppur_se_muova]

20. But but but candy canes, reindeer and snowmen are symbols deeply embedded in Christian tradition !

They've been used ever since ... well, since Madison Avenue got hold of Christmans, anyway.

[tanyev]

16. A right wing fundie boycott of Starbucks? Talk about a Christmas miracle!

[Pisces]

17. Another false Christian persecution controversy!!

[NightWatcher]

18. They are selling a CHRISTMAS BLEND and a CHRISTMAS Advent Calendar

This is RW bullshit pure and simple.

[onehandle]

19. Creative here. Design is flat and featureless at the moment.

Give it a few years and everything will be covered in drop shadows and foil embossing again.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. It's that fucking Conservative entitlement mentality, always demanding free shit

If they want reindeers and candy canes on their starbucks cups, they should pay for them--- or draw them on themselves with a crayon, like Reagan would have.

[onecaliberal]

32. ^^^That^^^

[gollygee]

24. They need to put some pagan symbols on that cup, ASAP ! n/t

[Quackers]

46. I see what you did there.

[hobbit709]

25. This comment sums up the idiots' attitude.

[Texasgal]

36. Love this!

[Nye Bevan]

26. As someone who enjoys all the Christmas stuff, I prefer the 2008 cup.

But I don't really care that much. If Starbucks sees sales falling because their customers think the new cup is too boring I'm sure they will switch to a more decorated cup very quickly.

[Kalidurga]

27. Oh Jesus on a reindeer

Sure the design is plain. But, I like it as a practical thing. They can use the cups until Valentines day. Good, they won't have to throw them away or store them for a long time (it's a pain to people who work to have to work around a bunch of stuff that is in the storage room). So, it's good. I don't go to Star Bucks anyway. I can get cheaper plain coffee anywhere else and I can't afford fancy coffee it has too much sugar in it.

[LiberalElite]

30. Yes - I could not possibly

care less about the cups. People pay for what's in the cup which can be thought of simply as a coffee delivery device. The hand goes around the cup and grips it and as such no one can see what's on the damn thing and NO ONE IS LOOKING at it while they're drinking their $5.00 coffee.

[HassleCat]

28. Jesus Christ!

Please give your followers a hint. You lead a petty clueless bunch. You know, for the savior of mankind and all that.

[Liberal_in_LA]

38. "Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus,"

A group of Christians turned to social media to share their frustration with Starbucks' new holiday cups, because the cups don't have "Merry Christmas" as part of the design. But there isn't much to the design in general.

The coffee corporation has chosen to take a more minimal approach to their design this year and have made the cups a simple red with their green and white logo. That's all.

"Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus," said Joshua Feuerstein in a viral Facebook post that has gotten over 10.7 million views and over 403 thousand shares since Thursday.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Why-some-Christians-are-upset-at-Starbucks-new-6618451.php

[LiberalElite]

29. Oh FFS

“The public has a common sense grasp on the reality that at Christmas time..." The public has a better grasp on reality 365 days out of the year than these right-wing freaks do. While they carry on about "political correctness" they're making big deals about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Wherever Jesus is these days, I'm certain he's doing this:

[Paladin]

31. If the action of a purveyor of overpriced coffee affects your spiritual life.....

you've got more troubles than you realize.

[petronius]

33. So the company with the mythological figure for a logo neglects to put pagan,

meteorological, magical, and otherwise secular symbols on a cup (a disposable coffee cup!)--even though the cup is colored a traditional color for the season--and these goofballs take that as an attack?

I would be deeply embarrassed to be associated with anyone--family, friends, or co-religionists--who even considered complaining about such a triviality...

[herding cats]

34. Christian evangelists are not happy reindeer and Christmas trees are not represented!

Christian evangelists claim Starbucks fanned 'war on Christmas' with minimalist holiday red coffee cups

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“Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus,” wrote former Arizona pastor Joshua Feuerstein in a viral Facebook post that had at least 8 million views Saturday night.

Student pastor Nate Weaver at the Crosspointe Christian Church in Sarasota, Fla., vowed to never visit Starbucks ever again.

“I’m officially banning Starbucks from my life,” Weaver wrote in a Facebook post Saturday. “With the CEO of the company telling those who support pro-life that they don't want their money and now the Red Holiday cups with nothing that might tie to Christmas on them because they want to be politically correct.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/christian-evangelists-upset-starbucks-red-cups-article-1.2427180

The problem with their being upset is Christian's version of Christmas has nothing to do with reindeer, Christmas trees (they're Pagan) or snowflakes. Which makes all if this people just being outraged for the sake of being outraged.

[Takket]

35. nothing says "war on christmas" like a giant red cup with a green logo.

[left-of-center2012]

37. They're anti-environment

'cause they ain't green in color!

[romanic]

39. We have Christians in Syria and other parts of the middle east

fleeing for their lives from radical muslims and terrorists groups; yet these crybabies are whining about red cups from an overpriced coffee chain with a damn mermaid as a logo???

Give me a fucking break fundies.

[pinstikfartherin]

40. Draw your own damn Christmas trees and snowflakes on the red and green cup.

I'll take a plain white cup as long as it's a Hazelnut Praline Latte, thanks.

[Cobalt Indigo]

41. I have no words...

This imaginary "war on Christmas" really gets dumber and dumber every year.

[JHB]

42. Outrage brigade is outraged

The cups are Christmasically Incorrect, don't you know.

Failure to sufficiently commercialize the holiday is disrespect. Outrage! Outrage, I say!

[Bucky]

43. Baby Jesus DIED!! for candy canes... while surrounded by Reindeer in the manger

Due to this GODLESS mermaid-devil-worshipping LIBERAL corporation, Baby Jesus died for NOTHING!!

Thanks, Obama!!

[AngryOldDem]

44. On my list of things to be outraged about...

...this ranks at about 100,000,000,000,001.

What does it matter? They're PAPER CUPS. Are people collecting these for holiday tableware decor or something?

Really getting tired of the religious silliness. My 14-year-old wandered into the room last night while this was on the news, and made this observation: "There's red and green on the cups. It's Christmas."

Eggs-zackly.

[Rocknrule]

47. Who cares that

people are starving all over the world, kids get murdered in Chicago practically every day, and our economy still hasn't recovered from the * administration? SOMEONE SAID HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ME TODAY!!! This is how it all got started in Nazi Germany!

[Wounded Bear]

48. Isn't red a Republican color?

Good thing they didn't make them blue.

[Capt. Obvious]

49. Ah yes

3 reindeer brought gifts to the baby Jesus