Thread: Starbucks employees, customers express concern over new policy: 'I can't see how this

Originally Posted by Judy

MW wrote:


You clearly don't know, because you didn't watch the videos. I do, because I did.

FYI: you're attempts at misdirection don't work on me. Using a small blurb I wrote to make a dig at me ignores the context in which it was given. Watching or not watching the video has nothing to do with what I said.

MW wrote:

A good person? Have you considered this person and the others may have had a personal agenda? I'm going to assume your comment is implying that only folks of color are treated this way at Starbucks. Do you know that for a fact? Isn't it possible that non-paying white folks have been treated the same? Hmm, guess that wouldn't fit the agenda so nobody felt it necessary to record such an incident on their cell phone. Honestly, I don't really know and neither do you.

Originally Posted by MW

FYI: you're attempts at misdirection don't work on me. Using a small blurb I wrote to make a dig at me ignores the context in which it was given. Watching or not watching the video has nothing to do with what I said.

MW wrote:

It has everything to do with what you said, because the video SHOWS a white guy having been given the code without buying anything, and the black guy being refused the code unless he buys something.

Originally Posted by Judy

It has everything to do with what you said, because the video SHOWS a white guy having been given the code without buying anything, and the black guy being refused the code unless he buys something.

But that is a narrow slice in time. Maybe the white guy is a regular customer who is in there every day. Would that not be a factor that you can't see on that video?

Originally Posted by Judy

It has everything to do with what you said, because the video SHOWS a white guy having been given the code without buying anything, and the black guy being refused the code unless he buys something.

These phone videos are notorious for missing details. How do you know the "white guy" wasn't a daily regular that always made a purchase after using the bathroom? How do you know it wasn't the owners son? There could be a number of reasons things may not have been as they appeared on the cell phone video. This could very well have been a personal agenda looking for a lamb for slaughter. Yes, and it could happen more than once.

Originally Posted by MW

These phone videos are notorious for missing details. How do you know the "white guy" wasn't a daily regular that always made a purchase after using the bathroom? How do you know it wasn't the owners son? There could be a number of reasons things may not have been as they appeared on the cell phone video. This could very well have been a personal agenda looking for a lamb for slaughter. Yes, and it could happen more than once.

Starbucks owns the store.

What difference would being a regular make?

Starbucks made the right decision to tighten up their policy ensuring all customers and visitors to their stores including blacks will be able to use their bathrooms without keys or "codes" and sit at their tables without buying something first.