From today's Reuters Weekend Briefing:
"Decaffeinated pride: More than 3,000 Starbucks workers will walk off the job following claims that the company banned Pride month decorations at some of its cafes. Pride celebrations are planned for several U.S. cities this weekend, but as the Reuters World News podcast tells us, it’s quite a bit more dangerous to be in the LGBTQ+ community in many other countries. In related news, read how Christian groups helped parents pull books from some Pennsylvania school libraries."
Considering that Starbucks employs about 400,000 people at this time, and, conservatively, 80% of the 3,000 Starbucks workers who will allegedly be walking out will act on pure peer pressure, we have Reutres - supposedly a quality GLOBAL NEWS, driven by and pandering to 0.15% (that's 3 in 2000 people) of the constituency.
I might as well start getting my news from TicToc!
Somebody STOP the madness!
I thought I lived in a democracy. I am all in for protecting people's rights. Still, if we allow a naval-gazing, crotch-centric minuscule minority of the citizenship to set the agenda, this is no different than tolerating the pathetic legislative branch being de-facto controlled by undereducated Trumpist imbeciles.
Yep - I am sick and tired having someone else's agenda marketed to me day in and day out.
I remember back in the day when I was much younger, more naive and narrow-minded, marching, raising money, and dancing in the streets in support of the anti-apartheid movement.
And what did we accomplish - a MORAL victory! And helped build a nation that is one of the worst governed, most violent, corrupt societies, with a standard of living for the same people we were "helping", that today is IMHO way lower than it can and should be. And the cherry on the cake - that same country that we helped "liberate" from "white oppression" has now embraced BRICS...
Vaarwel en sterkte vir jou saak van die dag, dwase!
