More than 150 Starbucks stores and 3,500 workers will be on strike next week across the US, the union representing the coffee chain’s baristas said on Friday, after it claimed the company had banned gay Pride month decorations at its cafes.
Starbucks Workers United union said earlier this month the company took down LGBTQ+ Pride decorations and flags at several stores, while some workers took to social media to report the same.
Starbucks on Friday denied the claims as “false information”. It said last week there had been “no change to any policy on this matter” and that it was still encouraging store managers to celebrate Pride month.
So true.
The number of leftists openly cheering the accelerationism of this when it’s only happening to minorities is really gross.
News flash - this isn’t going to help end capitalism. It will just make it a little more unbearable and horrible for LGBT.
I've been cheering it and I'm in those groups. Rainbow capitalism is gross while also coopting and deradicalising pride turning it into something that has stalled at progressing the rights of lgbt people. Pride achieved 1000x more before capitalism stuck its fucking nose into it, it slowed and regressed once capitalism coopted it.
If capitalists started coopting socialism and waving red flags everywhere while essentially maintaining capitalism and only doing welfare it would have exactly the same effects on socialist movements. It would stall them, and then it would halt them, and then regress them. We literally saw that happen with social democracy implemented to fight the ussr and that's what rainbow capitalism is to Pride. It is social democracy to radical queerness.