Stilton , from Stilton’s Place, shares his thoughts about the mandatory Starbucks PC training and the Roseanne Tweet.
(He’s gonna lose his TV show for this one 😉 )
If you found yourself having difficulty buying your overpriced addictive drug of choice yesterday, it was likely because 8000 Starbucks locations had closed for the day in order to help their employees learn not to be KKK-loving bigots who have trouble differentiating between a latte and a lynching.
Or at least, that’s pretty much the implication when a major corporation feels the need to take (and promote) such drastic actions. They’re practically screaming “Mea Culpa,” although can’t actually do so because using Latin in front of people who’ve had only a poor public education is also considered racist and non-egalitarian and sexist if a blond says “what?”
But in complete candor, we find much that is admirable about the training Starbucks is paying for. Not because it will do any more good than hanging up a sign with The Golden Rule in every location, but rather because we have such appreciation for the con-artists who are teaching the baristas how to deal with their unconscious bias. By definition, it will be impossible to see results – which is the tastiest scam we’ve heard since the idea of charging $7 for a cup of java.
The “unconscious racial bias” instructors might as well be charging each location $2000 to scare away invisible tigers. Can anyone prove their services aren’t working? And is the web domain for InvisibleTigersBegone.com still available? See more
The monkey is much more appealing.
I always figured they grabbed Valerie on a Star Trek voyage, but I can see the Little Ape in her too !
Like all things Leftist, this was a scripted set up.
Everyone knew what was going to happen and when. No ones career was damaged. Just another false flag, virtue signaling, bullshit drama.
The problem is left wing haters can’t take a joke. Their answer to every perceived slight is to cry and whine. Eff’em all.
Chimp looks more like Katie Couric to me.
I recall that Hillary campaigned a pretty good bit on “implicit bias” in whites against blacks, and how she was going to lecture us about that when she got elected. But you go ahead, Dems, and keep beating the “unconscious racism” drum. It’s got a good beat, and you can dance til you drop to the bottom in the polls.
It will be interesting to look back in a year or so to see who really made a monkey out of who.
The Iranians must really enjoy the fact they were able to plant a spy in the seat of US power. Looking at the deal that was made with them it was a success.
You people need this type of training. I know I did. When I was a Starbucks barista and some person of color would struggle to find exact change for that $5.65 small mocha no whip, I would realize that no tip was going into the tip jar so I would jump over the counter, manacle the customer of color and scream “runaway slave, runaway slave.” The sensitivity trainer managed to convince me that this was an overreaction on my part and that mere verbal shaming was sufficient to induce leaving a tip.
Well, I have to go now – it’s my turn to take a fire hose to the men’s room.
I have to admit I watched this season of Roseanne. More to understand what people were talking/writing about. I just didn’t see it as a conservative or even really pro-Trump show. I thought it was more mocking Trump voters. They had an episode with Roseanne meeting Muslim neighbors and she was a caricature of the redneck small minded racists someone like head writer Wanda Sykes sees in working class Trump voters. The cartoon header should be ‘How many liberal careers can I kill with one tweet’. Job well done!
Thirdtwin – Oooh she DOES look like katie couric. LOL
Anonymous- From what I’ve heard others say, the show wasn’t really friendly to basic working class people at all.
Anyway, Roseanne came back to twitter for an apology tour today, a repeat, and then apologized to the cast. She told her fans she thanks and appreciates them for her defense, but she messed up and didn’t need it. Then she slammed liberals for their hypocrisy. LOL.
Why didnt Rossane use the excuse Joy Reid did? Her account was hacked.
“Well, I have to go now – it’s my turn to take a fire hose to the men’s room.”
WHAT???!!! You Bull Connor, you!!! SELLLLLLMMMMAAAAAA!!!!!
Val-Jarhead said it was a “teachable moment.”
Perhaps we need another Beer Summit?
Actually the only teachable moment was that Val-Jar-Jar was black and had black parents.
Who the fuck knew?
Eight years with Obama, I knew the Obamas were indeed black.
Val, I only knew that she was Iranian.
Since we don’t watch network tee vee (see the conservative virtue signalling I just did?), we were catching the new episodes here and there on the internet. I’m with other commenters here who caught that the show was really more about making the middle class family look like idiots most of the time. I never watched Roseanne before so I don’t have any nostalgic memories of it or its characters. Whatever happened to good tee vee writers?
ValJar is a detestable commie. I’ve been enjoying listening to several David Horowitz presentations, interviews, etc. The guy is now in his 80’s and a trove of the history of the communist and “New Left” information, including the names of everyone and tidbits of info about how they got their start and who they are connected to.
A piercing point he makes about ValJar, Obama, Axelrod, etc., and all communists/Leftists in general is that they never left. How does he know this? Because those who have left the communist/Leftist party usually tell anyone who will listen about their nefarious underworld dealings. Not obama and his cohort. None of them left. Just another example in the past couple days: Elizabeth Warren sticking up for the communist Chinese.
I’m starting a list.
How to rip people off and make them happy:
– Sell small cups of coffee with really long names (Starbucks)
– Sell unconscious bias training at very high prices (The Perception Institute)
– Sell really skimpy clothes at very high prices (Victoria’s Secret)
– Sell high priced tickets to predetermined wrestling matches (WWE)
Over the years I have seen black men named “Simian.”
How are they even employable?
Every co-worker that called them by their name…YOU’RE FIRED!
Actually every time I see a picture of Valjar, I think reptile, not primate. I see more lizard than simian. The muslim label seems to not be in error.
ValJar was Barry’s Persian handler, sent to supervise the destruction of American sovereignty for Soros and the Globalists, and when he was such a screw-up he couldn’t deliver, the fix for Hilary was in.
ValJar still has Secret Service protection. Pretty privileged for somebody who was never elected to anything.
They just showed ValJar on Fox sitting next to Sharpton and a couple of black women.
Good Lord!
Rachel Dolezal is more of a black woman.
Does anyone try harder to identify as white as ValJar?
Friend wife said that the monkey is better looking…
Charlton Heston kissing ValJar was the first inter-species onscreen smooch…
Is it wrong that seeing Left Lucy, after all these years, gave me a tingle?
Rush made an interesting observation today; every story about this fiasco, says “Rosanne Barr, a Donald Trump supporter”. Never did we hear “Harvey Weinstein, a Hillary Clinton supporter”.
Since her career was over anyway, it’s too bad Rosanne didn’t apologize to the Planet of the Apes. Go down swingin’!
Ain’t going to defend Roseanne, but the Sainted Mrs. Lazlo reminded me that when Lazlo was on the Ambien I made a serious query to her one night: “When are we going to do something about those squirrels?”
“What squirrels?”
“The ones coming out of the phone book”
Lazlo was asleep and walking around asking about stuff! Try living that down in a post menopausal household.
Now this does not expose Lazlo’s latent acrimony for squirrels, so perhaps I can understand what happened to her.
Ambien doesn’t cause ‘racism’, but people commit murder, drive, eat stuff, make purchases on the internets, and ask about squirrels coming out of phone books.
LOCO
Only those who wore the E,G+A can say “Jarhead” without bad things happening.
Since I know you not – other that it is clear you never wore E.G+A – I can not say this to your face.
But trust me when I say I have many times in the past and never was I challenged.
My Scotch ancestors said, “Tis nay the size of the dawg in the fight;
tis the size of the fight in the dawg”
This old dawg got a lot of fight in him still.
I dunno…
Let’s ask Ed Simian his opinion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y18PLFUK5vA
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I laughed at Roseanne’s tweet. Seemed witty to me. But then I am no fan of VJ. In my mind, she and obalmer were/are a couple of criminals. Much like the entire obalmer admin. and the intel. comm. and top law enforcement agencies under obalmer. Collectively, they appeared to have made a very real attempt to overthrow a duly elected president. But Roseanne is the trouble maker. Riiiiiiiight…..
I thought the comment was based on comparing IQ.
@Loco, having had my ass watched over by Marines, having bought them plenty of drinks over the years, I’m a soft touch during P.I. grad week, there is no such thing as an ex-jarhead.
I’m leaning more toward Munchkin than monkey.
So as the 100 millionth person to MENTION the Planet of the Apes resemblance, instead of getting a cart full of free groceries, Roseanne loses her TV show instead?!
What fun to see my work here at IOTW and enjoy all the comments!
Jarhead Jarhead Jarhead.
Come and get me!
Seriously, you fuckers are acting a bit snowflakey.
Lighten up Francis! 🙂
This Valerie Jarett is a strange bird. A black woman born in Iran who looks vaguely Asian.
Whatever her racial makeup, she looks like something that floats in a toilet bowl till flushed away. If a turd had a face, it would look just like that.