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In reply to the discussion: Starbucks drops Jewish group from bias training [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)think she has considerably more power than she does.
I sincerely doubt that Starbucks gives two hoots what Mallory thinks about anything. And if they believed that they should keep the ADL's role as it was, they could easily have done so without any worry about what Mallory would say or do. Obviously, they thought changing their role was the right thing to do - as did their advisers, including the ADL itself - so Tamika Mallory is really irrelevant.
My dog barks like a maniac every time the mailman comes to our door and every time, the mailman leaves. Then she struts around the house for about 10 minutes thinking she's the baddest little bitch on the block because she once again saved our lives by running the mailman away. But that doesn't mean the mailman leaving our house had anything at all to do with her.
Same thing here. Starbucks' decision probably had nothing whatsoever to do with Tamika Mallory, although it plays right into her hands to think that they "acquiesced" to her in doing something they likely would have done even if she hadn't uttered a word.