Posted On: Thursday - June 15th 2023 9:32PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Big-Biz Stupidity Legal Stupidity
For the usual reasons (either logging out of email or doing a "Peak Stupidity" search) I glanced at a yahoo news headline. This one was surprisingly not biased and stupid, but some good heartening news.
From the NY Times , I just now noticed (trying to NEVER click on a thing from that rag) and writer Ed Shananan, we learn White Starbucks Manager Fired Amid Furor Over Racism Wins $25 Million. This story goes back over 5 years. Peak Stupidity commented a few times back then, with Starbucks - fake coupons and raising hell and Nationwide 10,000-Store Barista-Based Synchronized Struggle Session a Success!, on the caving in to yet another race hustling set up* by the huge Starbucks exotic coffee chain.
Caving in and giving out a couple of hundred thousand bucks to the 2 huckster guilt-trippers is one thing. Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz went way beyond what the risk-averse corporate lawyers would have told him. He turned his back on loyal, but not Woke enough, employees, and initiated a guilt trip, including what I called a big "struggle session" along with new rules to "be kind" to (especially Black!) deadbeats. As Peak Stupidity saw over the last couple of years personally, this move has come back to haunt Starbucks. (See Starbucks Wokeness Backfire, and the 3rd item of this post.)
Well, White people, you can't lose them all. A fairly high level manager of Starbucks, one Shannon Phillips, has won a lawsuit and hopefully taught someone at Starbucks a lesson. Keep in mind when you read the article, that 5 years is how long the manager in question has been fighting Starbucks, not knowing all that time whether she'd lose to the Woke Big Biz Establishment.
On Monday, in a surprising twist, a federal jury in New Jersey ordered Starbucks to pay $25.6 million to a former regional manager after determining that the company had fired her amid the fallout from the Rittenhouse Square episode because she was white.The verdict was unanimous (wow!), and yes, I guess it IS surprising to see justice be served to White people, come to think of it.
The jury found that Starbucks had violated the federal civil rights of the former manager, Shannon Phillips, as well as a New Jersey law that prohibits discrimination based on race, awarding her $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages.
[My bolding.]
At the time of the episode, Phillips oversaw about 100 stores in Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, Delaware and parts of Maryland. She had been promoted to the job in 2011 after what she called her “exemplary performance” in six years as a district manager in Ohio."Damage control" in the Big Biz world meant screwing over whomever in order to placate the Establishment, even an exemplary employee. She was so exemplary, that she wouldn't play along in what I'd call "Big Business,
Phillips said in the suit that Starbucks, as part of its damage-control effort after the arrests, had sought to punish her and other white employees in and around Philadelphia even if they had not been involved in the events that led to the police being called.
Amid the image-burnishing campaign, Phillips said one of her superiors, a Black woman, told her to suspend a white manager who oversaw stores in Philadelphia, though not the one in Rittenhouse Square, because of allegations that he had engaged in discriminatory conduct — allegations that Phillips said she knew to be untrue.Remember that John F. Kennedy book Profiles in Courage? Is there a way to add an addendum, because this Shannon Phillips ought to be in there?
In contrast, Phillips said, no action was taken against the manager who oversaw the Rittenhouse Square store, a Black man who Phillips said had promoted the employee who called the police.
Phillips said she was fired not long after balking at the order to suspend the white manager.
The plaintiff rests. You know, there's always another side of the story, though. Let's hear from Starbucks:
Starbucks denied in court filings that Phillips had been fired because she was white and said she was let go because she performed poorly in response to the episode that led to the arrests.Oh man, they're right. She did perform poorly. The plaintiff should have instituted her own struggle sessions, fired Capitalist Roaders, hung vente-character posters around White employees' necks, and sent a few baristas to the pig farms. Regarding her lack of performance, I gotta admit, Starbucks' lawyer is right about that too. Miss Phillips failed in that role. Not everyone is cut out to be a Red Guard style Communist.
“During this time of crisis,” a lawyer for Starbucks wrote in a court filing, the company’s “Philadelphia market needed a leader who could perform,” adding that “Ms. Phillips failed in every aspect of that role.”
PS: For some comments, including informative ones from lawyer/commenter Jack D., look in the thread under this Steve Sailer post.
* This is not anything new. It goes back to Rosa Parks, at least.
** Just to be complete here, we'll link to 3 other posts on Starbucks, these relating to the Kung Flu PanicFest: Grasping at Straws - Part 1 - - Grasping at Straws - Part 2 and Grasping at Straws - Update from Starbucks. Looking back at those posts, I see that some of the PanicFest stuff was just freaking weird.
Comments:
Hail
Monday - June 19th 2023 8:50AM MST
PS
Correction --- only 13% of Republicans support 'Juneteenth' as national holiday, according to the early-June 2023 poll.
Addendum --- One of the failures of polls is in failing to detect strength of position with Yes/No questions. Of the 87% not indicating support, how many of them radically oppose it and would identify it as based in (a product of) anti-white ideology?
Correction --- only 13% of Republicans support 'Juneteenth' as national holiday, according to the early-June 2023 poll.
Addendum --- One of the failures of polls is in failing to detect strength of position with Yes/No questions. Of the 87% not indicating support, how many of them radically oppose it and would identify it as based in (a product of) anti-white ideology?
Hail
Monday - June 19th 2023 8:47AM MST
PS
- Why mandate a(nother) divisive, widely unpopular, anti-white holiday? -
A poll this year shows the new Black National Liberation and Independence Day holiday in June --- instituted per the directives and imperatives of Black Moral Superiority Doctrine --- is the most polarizing 'holiday' ever mandated by the USA on its subjects.
https://polsci.umass.edu/toplines-and-crosstabs-june-2023-juneteenth-poll-race-america
UMass--Amherst // "2023 'Juneteenth' National Poll"
May 31 to June 8, 2023 / 1,133 respondents, randomized sample
Q. Do you agree with or support making 'Juneteenth' a "federal holiday"? (exact wording uncertain)
By party-identification:
- Republicans: 14% support 'Juneteenth' as holiday
- Independents: 32% support
- Democrats: 69% support
- (non-Black Democrats: ca.55%)
Since introducing a totally obscure, unknown, minor historical quasi-event and forcing it on people was a move associated with the anti-White pogrom of 2020, and as that pogrom was embraced and used by the Democratic Party, you can expect a lot of non-Black Democratic Party-identifiers will pick up the hint and signal support. In other words, the 55% non-Black Democrat and 32% Independent are probably considerably 'soft' support. When any question is released into public discourse and 'politicized,' it tends to end up this way. The more revealing fact is all through the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, no one was ever in favor of this abominable holiday, few had ever even heard of it, and if anyone had suggested it be a national holiday he would have been laughed off the stage.
The other non-surprising result of the poll:
Post-graduate-degree holders (say they) support the abominable holiday far more than high-school-degree holders (63% vs. 32%). If removing Blacks from the latter group, support crashes to very-low levels approaching the Republican-identifier range.
The party-id support for the abominable 'holiday' also tracks closely to (claimed) support for a follow-up question on reparations (or How to Solve the Anti-Black Racism problem): Cash payments directly to Blacks in reparation for slavery and white-racism:
Do you support large direct cash payments as 'reparations' for slavery and white-racism?
- Republican-identifiers: 11% claim to support direct cash 'reparations' payments to Blacks;
- Independent-identifiers: 27%;
- Democrat-identifiers: 55% and ca.37% for non-Black Democrats.
These and other questions in the poll are thinly veiled Regime signals, giving people a chance to signal Regime support or opposition, Most people will pick up on such, with post-graduate-degree people of course most likely to figure it out.
It's a thinly veiled Regime holiday, not only about indulging Black ethno-narcissism but about keeping the anti-white coalition together. We see a lot of the components of the Regime behind it.
Meanwhile, the actual people responsible for making U.S. culture what it is, are against it by a huge margin. White-Western Christian-origin people -- the wide concentric circles around the original wide NW-European-Protestant core, who define and created and run all the traditional cultural institutions and set the norms -- are against the abominable holiday by margins so large as to almost give you faith that the Stupidity Quotient recedes to more-manageable levels among people outside the Regime.
As I type this, Big Tech has graced me with sight of a blue-and-black flag with a star in the middle, which is said to represent "Juneteenth," which Big Tech urges its subjects to "celebrate."
- Why mandate a(nother) divisive, widely unpopular, anti-white holiday? -
A poll this year shows the new Black National Liberation and Independence Day holiday in June --- instituted per the directives and imperatives of Black Moral Superiority Doctrine --- is the most polarizing 'holiday' ever mandated by the USA on its subjects.
https://polsci.umass.edu/toplines-and-crosstabs-june-2023-juneteenth-poll-race-america
UMass--Amherst // "2023 'Juneteenth' National Poll"
May 31 to June 8, 2023 / 1,133 respondents, randomized sample
Q. Do you agree with or support making 'Juneteenth' a "federal holiday"? (exact wording uncertain)
By party-identification:
- Republicans: 14% support 'Juneteenth' as holiday
- Independents: 32% support
- Democrats: 69% support
- (non-Black Democrats: ca.55%)
Since introducing a totally obscure, unknown, minor historical quasi-event and forcing it on people was a move associated with the anti-White pogrom of 2020, and as that pogrom was embraced and used by the Democratic Party, you can expect a lot of non-Black Democratic Party-identifiers will pick up the hint and signal support. In other words, the 55% non-Black Democrat and 32% Independent are probably considerably 'soft' support. When any question is released into public discourse and 'politicized,' it tends to end up this way. The more revealing fact is all through the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, no one was ever in favor of this abominable holiday, few had ever even heard of it, and if anyone had suggested it be a national holiday he would have been laughed off the stage.
The other non-surprising result of the poll:
Post-graduate-degree holders (say they) support the abominable holiday far more than high-school-degree holders (63% vs. 32%). If removing Blacks from the latter group, support crashes to very-low levels approaching the Republican-identifier range.
The party-id support for the abominable 'holiday' also tracks closely to (claimed) support for a follow-up question on reparations (or How to Solve the Anti-Black Racism problem): Cash payments directly to Blacks in reparation for slavery and white-racism:
Do you support large direct cash payments as 'reparations' for slavery and white-racism?
- Republican-identifiers: 11% claim to support direct cash 'reparations' payments to Blacks;
- Independent-identifiers: 27%;
- Democrat-identifiers: 55% and ca.37% for non-Black Democrats.
These and other questions in the poll are thinly veiled Regime signals, giving people a chance to signal Regime support or opposition, Most people will pick up on such, with post-graduate-degree people of course most likely to figure it out.
It's a thinly veiled Regime holiday, not only about indulging Black ethno-narcissism but about keeping the anti-white coalition together. We see a lot of the components of the Regime behind it.
Meanwhile, the actual people responsible for making U.S. culture what it is, are against it by a huge margin. White-Western Christian-origin people -- the wide concentric circles around the original wide NW-European-Protestant core, who define and created and run all the traditional cultural institutions and set the norms -- are against the abominable holiday by margins so large as to almost give you faith that the Stupidity Quotient recedes to more-manageable levels among people outside the Regime.
As I type this, Big Tech has graced me with sight of a blue-and-black flag with a star in the middle, which is said to represent "Juneteenth," which Big Tech urges its subjects to "celebrate."
Adam Smith
Monday - June 19th 2023 8:42AM MST
PS: Lol, Achmed. As usual, I agree!
And I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty.
Cheers!
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And I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty.
Cheers!
☮
Moderator
Monday - June 19th 2023 7:30AM MST
PS: Adam, from the words of our Black! Founder, D'Jontay Adams:
"It [Juneteenth] ought to be solemnized with Pimp mobiles on Parade, with Hos, Games, Sportsball, Gunfire, Hip-hop, Peaceful Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."
- The Herstory Channel
"It [Juneteenth] ought to be solemnized with Pimp mobiles on Parade, with Hos, Games, Sportsball, Gunfire, Hip-hop, Peaceful Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."
- The Herstory Channel
Adam Smith
Monday - June 19th 2023 6:46AM MST
PS: Happy Juneteenth, y'all,
At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, at a “peaceful gathering” to celebrate Juneteenth...
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/20-shot-one-dead-at-parking-lot-party-in-suburban-chicago/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/18/willowbrook-illinois-mass-shooting/70333978007/
What's wrong with the enwords?
And why are they always so angry?
☮
At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, at a “peaceful gathering” to celebrate Juneteenth...
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/20-shot-one-dead-at-parking-lot-party-in-suburban-chicago/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/18/willowbrook-illinois-mass-shooting/70333978007/
What's wrong with the enwords?
And why are they always so angry?
☮
Moderator
Monday - June 19th 2023 6:26AM MST
PS: "Does this mean the Stupidity Quotient is on the decline?" The numerator is rising so quickly that I'm getting overwhelmed, Mr. Hail. Posts are backed up in my head. Hopefully, I'll get back to it this evening.
Hail
Sunday - June 18th 2023 5:51PM MST
PS
Three days without Peak Stupidity,
- Does this mean the Stupidity Quotient is on the decline?
- Ordid the Peak Stupidity staff hit the road to attend the VDare Extravaganza and meet Steve Sailer and co.?
Three days without Peak Stupidity,
- Does this mean the Stupidity Quotient is on the decline?
- Ordid the Peak Stupidity staff hit the road to attend the VDare Extravaganza and meet Steve Sailer and co.?
Moderator
Friday - June 16th 2023 7:34PM MST
PS: Great point, Mr. Hail. If you just read headlines you'd get the opposite of the truth.
Thanks for yet another book for the collection, Mr. Smith.
I'm hopeful, Mr. Blanc. I guess either way, the $25,000,000 is nothing to Starbucks in the long run, but it's nice to stick it to 'em.
Thanks for reading and commenting, folks. Gonna be a busy weekend, so that's probably it for the week. Have a nice weekend!
Thanks for yet another book for the collection, Mr. Smith.
I'm hopeful, Mr. Blanc. I guess either way, the $25,000,000 is nothing to Starbucks in the long run, but it's nice to stick it to 'em.
Thanks for reading and commenting, folks. Gonna be a busy weekend, so that's probably it for the week. Have a nice weekend!
MBlanc46
Friday - June 16th 2023 9:13AM MST
PS Has Starbucks appealed yet? I can’t imagine this ruling standing in the former USA.
Adam Smith
Friday - June 16th 2023 8:16AM MST
PS: Good morning, everyone,
I'm just glad they named a square after Kyle Rittenhouse. (JK)
Did they fire the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! manager who ordered Miss Phillips to suspend the white manager/scapegoat?
A few of those headlines for Mr. Hail...
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182359923/ex-starbucks-manager-awarded-25-6-million-in-case-tied-to-arrests-of-2-black-men
https://apnews.com/article/starbucks-racism-philadelphia-manager-lawsuit-bfa9cd9a897dff402f8547f167455d10
https://archive.is/hgmYy
Cheers!
☮
I'm just glad they named a square after Kyle Rittenhouse. (JK)
Did they fire the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! manager who ordered Miss Phillips to suspend the white manager/scapegoat?
A few of those headlines for Mr. Hail...
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182359923/ex-starbucks-manager-awarded-25-6-million-in-case-tied-to-arrests-of-2-black-men
https://apnews.com/article/starbucks-racism-philadelphia-manager-lawsuit-bfa9cd9a897dff402f8547f167455d10
https://archive.is/hgmYy
Cheers!
☮
Peak Stupidity Book Club
Friday - June 16th 2023 8:09AM MST
PS: Profiles in Courage...
https://tinyurl.com/ycxhymem
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https://tinyurl.com/ycxhymem
☮
Hail
Friday - June 16th 2023 7:00AM MST
PS
One headline I saw was approximately this:
"Fired manager awarded $25,000,000 following anti-Black incident at Starbucks"
If someone wanted to trawl through the various headline-wordings, it is easy find such. And most people only read headlines or see headline-like banners across the bottoms (usually) of screens.
One headline I saw was approximately this:
"Fired manager awarded $25,000,000 following anti-Black incident at Starbucks"
If someone wanted to trawl through the various headline-wordings, it is easy find such. And most people only read headlines or see headline-like banners across the bottoms (usually) of screens.
Moderator
Friday - June 16th 2023 6:13AM MST
PS: White stockholders and White customers will pay, is I guess what you mean, Alarmist. Indeed.
At least I haven't been paying too much - been bringing my lemon juice for health purposes. An occasional hot chocolate at $4.50 or so is what I'm in for.
At least I haven't been paying too much - been bringing my lemon juice for health purposes. An occasional hot chocolate at $4.50 or so is what I'm in for.
The Alarmist
Friday - June 16th 2023 2:25AM MST
PS
At the end of the day, a bunch of White people are going to pay a White woman for Starbucks’ blatant racism.
At the end of the day, a bunch of White people are going to pay a White woman for Starbucks’ blatant racism.
"We freed the slaves back in '63, but we forgot to tell the darkies in Texas... Doh!"
Seriously, Juneteeth is a joke.