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Originally Posted by Alf
What else could you call somebody who refused to become a customer and then refused to leave the premises when asked?
And they were arrested for trespassing. So what else would you call it?
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Basically, yeah.
Starbucks could've come back and said "Um... well, at some locations, we do have to do something about trespassers as it's a bit of a problem. And this was policy" ... and maybe that was a poor one and would create problems anyway given the mixed messaging they send about their business model (community meeting area, etc)... The outrage machine was out in full force though when they were simply just saying they were still investigating, they were being thrown under the bus by the social justice mob... so they panicked.
So they labeled it as racial profiling in the affirmative in order to make the story go away quicker. The problem is, it stirred various bees nest around social media (always social media...), and so here we are disagreeing with each other along partisan lines again...Keeping in mind, they didn't even fire the manager. She still works with them.