Starbucks Red Holiday Cup Controversy Brews

[BlueGin]

While I am not a religious man, I have understood the complaints of some conservatives over the past few years of department stores and other business bending over to political correctness by saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. After all, it is the Christmas season that gives all of these retailers their end of year push so the way I look at it, don't bite the hand that feeds you. However, this year's "War on Christmas" has reached a new level of insanity.

The sight of red cups being handed out at Starbucks usually signifies the “most wonderful time of the year” is underway, but this year’s holiday season at Starbucks is already being marred by a red cup controversy.

While red cups of Starbucks past have featured holiday symbols like reindeer and ornaments, this year’s cup is plain.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

“Starbucks has become a place of sanctuary during the holidays,” Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of design and content, said in a news release announcing the cup. “We’re embracing the simplicity and the quietness of it. It’s a more open way to usher in the holiday.”

Ever since the 2015 cup was released in U.S. and Canada stores Nov. 1, Starbucks customers have taken to the Internet to say they do not like the cup's “purity of design,” as Fields called it.

Joshua Feuerstein, who identifies himself as an “American evangelist, Internet and social media personality” on his website, posted a video on Facebook about the Starbucks cup that has been shared nearly 500,000 times.

In the video, the Arizona-based Feuerstein says he told baristas in a Starbucks that his name was Merry Christmas so they would write Merry Christmas on the red cup.

“I think in the age of political correctness we’ve become so open minded our brains have literally fallen out of our head,” Feuerstein says in the video. “I decided instead of simply boycotting, well why don’t we just start a movement.”

Starbucks Red Holiday Cup Controversy Brews

Joshua Feuerstein is the Christian extremists' version of Alex Jones. I would hope that most conservative Christians aren't buying into his nonsense. What do snowflakes and reindeer have to do with the birth of the Christ child anyway? I think sometimes westerners, particularly Americans, forget that Christmas is celebrated all over different parts of the world, many places where it's summer time in December. No snow, folks. It's got dick to do with the holiday. Their new cup design, however, is certainly indicative of the holiday. If you can't deal with that, well, don't go to Starbucks then.

As an agnostic I don't have a problem in general with people having their religious beliefs, but when Christians start whining about how atheists, agnostics, and others have a problem with them, well, look no further than asshats like Feuerstein to understand why.

The level of whining that conservatism has come to is just nauseating. They whine about everything.

They seem to want to tell everyone else exact rules on what you can and can do before, during, and after Christmas. AS IF they own the holiday.

Now whining about a red cup? A FRIGIN RED CUP!

We can only hope Starbucks doesn't take the obvious step to a brutal bloody war by issuing a GREEN cup.

WTF is wrong with these people?

^^Oh look a hysterical self righteous lib lecturing the masses about taking things too seriously. What a shock.

 

[IsaacNewton]

While I am not a religious man, I have understood the complaints of some conservatives over the past few years of department stores and other business bending over to political correctness by saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. After all, it is the Christmas season that gives all of these retailers their end of year push so the way I look at it, don't bite the hand that feeds you. However, this year's "War on Christmas" has reached a new level of insanity.

The sight of red cups being handed out at Starbucks usually signifies the “most wonderful time of the year” is underway, but this year’s holiday season at Starbucks is already being marred by a red cup controversy.

While red cups of Starbucks past have featured holiday symbols like reindeer and ornaments, this year’s cup is plain.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

“Starbucks has become a place of sanctuary during the holidays,” Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of design and content, said in a news release announcing the cup. “We’re embracing the simplicity and the quietness of it. It’s a more open way to usher in the holiday.”

Ever since the 2015 cup was released in U.S. and Canada stores Nov. 1, Starbucks customers have taken to the Internet to say they do not like the cup's “purity of design,” as Fields called it.

Joshua Feuerstein, who identifies himself as an “American evangelist, Internet and social media personality” on his website, posted a video on Facebook about the Starbucks cup that has been shared nearly 500,000 times.

In the video, the Arizona-based Feuerstein says he told baristas in a Starbucks that his name was Merry Christmas so they would write Merry Christmas on the red cup.

“I think in the age of political correctness we’ve become so open minded our brains have literally fallen out of our head,” Feuerstein says in the video. “I decided instead of simply boycotting, well why don’t we just start a movement.”

Starbucks Red Holiday Cup Controversy Brews

Joshua Feuerstein is the Christian extremists' version of Alex Jones. I would hope that most conservative Christians aren't buying into his nonsense. What do snowflakes and reindeer have to do with the birth of the Christ child anyway? I think sometimes westerners, particularly Americans, forget that Christmas is celebrated all over different parts of the world, many places where it's summer time in December. No snow, folks. It's got dick to do with the holiday. Their new cup design, however, is certainly indicative of the holiday. If you can't deal with that, well, don't go to Starbucks then.

As an agnostic I don't have a problem in general with people having their religious beliefs, but when Christians start whining about how atheists, agnostics, and others have a problem with them, well, look no further than asshats like Feuerstein to understand why.

The level of whining that conservatism has come to is just nauseating. They whine about everything.

They seem to want to tell everyone else exact rules on what you can and can do before, during, and after Christmas. AS IF they own the holiday.

Now whining about a red cup? A FRIGIN RED CUP!

We can only hope Starbucks doesn't take the obvious step to a brutal bloody war by issuing a GREEN cup.

WTF is wrong with these people?

^^Oh look a hysterical self righteous lib lecturing the masses about taking things too seriously. What a shock.

You are defending outrage over a cup being red.

What's next, castigating a department store because its Nutcrackers have no nuts!

 

[BlueGin]

While I am not a religious man, I have understood the complaints of some conservatives over the past few years of department stores and other business bending over to political correctness by saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. After all, it is the Christmas season that gives all of these retailers their end of year push so the way I look at it, don't bite the hand that feeds you. However, this year's "War on Christmas" has reached a new level of insanity.

The sight of red cups being handed out at Starbucks usually signifies the “most wonderful time of the year” is underway, but this year’s holiday season at Starbucks is already being marred by a red cup controversy.

While red cups of Starbucks past have featured holiday symbols like reindeer and ornaments, this year’s cup is plain.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

“Starbucks has become a place of sanctuary during the holidays,” Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of design and content, said in a news release announcing the cup. “We’re embracing the simplicity and the quietness of it. It’s a more open way to usher in the holiday.”

Ever since the 2015 cup was released in U.S. and Canada stores Nov. 1, Starbucks customers have taken to the Internet to say they do not like the cup's “purity of design,” as Fields called it.

Joshua Feuerstein, who identifies himself as an “American evangelist, Internet and social media personality” on his website, posted a video on Facebook about the Starbucks cup that has been shared nearly 500,000 times.

In the video, the Arizona-based Feuerstein says he told baristas in a Starbucks that his name was Merry Christmas so they would write Merry Christmas on the red cup.

“I think in the age of political correctness we’ve become so open minded our brains have literally fallen out of our head,” Feuerstein says in the video. “I decided instead of simply boycotting, well why don’t we just start a movement.”

Starbucks Red Holiday Cup Controversy Brews

Joshua Feuerstein is the Christian extremists' version of Alex Jones. I would hope that most conservative Christians aren't buying into his nonsense. What do snowflakes and reindeer have to do with the birth of the Christ child anyway? I think sometimes westerners, particularly Americans, forget that Christmas is celebrated all over different parts of the world, many places where it's summer time in December. No snow, folks. It's got dick to do with the holiday. Their new cup design, however, is certainly indicative of the holiday. If you can't deal with that, well, don't go to Starbucks then.

As an agnostic I don't have a problem in general with people having their religious beliefs, but when Christians start whining about how atheists, agnostics, and others have a problem with them, well, look no further than asshats like Feuerstein to understand why.

The level of whining that conservatism has come to is just nauseating. They whine about everything.

They seem to want to tell everyone else exact rules on what you can and can do before, during, and after Christmas. AS IF they own the holiday.

Now whining about a red cup? A FRIGIN RED CUP!

We can only hope Starbucks doesn't take the obvious step to a brutal bloody war by issuing a GREEN cup.

WTF is wrong with these people?

^^Oh look a hysterical self righteous lib lecturing the masses about taking things too seriously. What a shock.

You are defending outrage over a cup being red.

What's next, castigating a department store because its Nutcrackers have no nuts!

How about these hypocrites stop paying to produce fugly red cups and instead pay their employees a living wage?

 

[IsaacNewton]

While I am not a religious man, I have understood the complaints of some conservatives over the past few years of department stores and other business bending over to political correctness by saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. After all, it is the Christmas season that gives all of these retailers their end of year push so the way I look at it, don't bite the hand that feeds you. However, this year's "War on Christmas" has reached a new level of insanity.

The sight of red cups being handed out at Starbucks usually signifies the “most wonderful time of the year” is underway, but this year’s holiday season at Starbucks is already being marred by a red cup controversy.

While red cups of Starbucks past have featured holiday symbols like reindeer and ornaments, this year’s cup is plain.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

“Starbucks has become a place of sanctuary during the holidays,” Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of design and content, said in a news release announcing the cup. “We’re embracing the simplicity and the quietness of it. It’s a more open way to usher in the holiday.”

Ever since the 2015 cup was released in U.S. and Canada stores Nov. 1, Starbucks customers have taken to the Internet to say they do not like the cup's “purity of design,” as Fields called it.

Joshua Feuerstein, who identifies himself as an “American evangelist, Internet and social media personality” on his website, posted a video on Facebook about the Starbucks cup that has been shared nearly 500,000 times.

In the video, the Arizona-based Feuerstein says he told baristas in a Starbucks that his name was Merry Christmas so they would write Merry Christmas on the red cup.

“I think in the age of political correctness we’ve become so open minded our brains have literally fallen out of our head,” Feuerstein says in the video. “I decided instead of simply boycotting, well why don’t we just start a movement.”

Starbucks Red Holiday Cup Controversy Brews

Joshua Feuerstein is the Christian extremists' version of Alex Jones. I would hope that most conservative Christians aren't buying into his nonsense. What do snowflakes and reindeer have to do with the birth of the Christ child anyway? I think sometimes westerners, particularly Americans, forget that Christmas is celebrated all over different parts of the world, many places where it's summer time in December. No snow, folks. It's got dick to do with the holiday. Their new cup design, however, is certainly indicative of the holiday. If you can't deal with that, well, don't go to Starbucks then.

As an agnostic I don't have a problem in general with people having their religious beliefs, but when Christians start whining about how atheists, agnostics, and others have a problem with them, well, look no further than asshats like Feuerstein to understand why.

The level of whining that conservatism has come to is just nauseating. They whine about everything.

They seem to want to tell everyone else exact rules on what you can and can do before, during, and after Christmas. AS IF they own the holiday.

Now whining about a red cup? A FRIGIN RED CUP!

We can only hope Starbucks doesn't take the obvious step to a brutal bloody war by issuing a GREEN cup.

WTF is wrong with these people?

^^Oh look a hysterical self righteous lib lecturing the masses about taking things too seriously. What a shock.

You are defending outrage over a cup being red.

What's next, castigating a department store because its Nutcrackers have no nuts!

How about these hypocrites stop paying to produce fugly red cups and instead pay their employees a living wage?

Go start a 'living wage' thread or post to one of many already started. Else the thought police ban you entirely!

And interesting, why are red cups ugly? You have a bad 'red cup' memory? Maybe from Korea or Macy's?

 

[BlueGin]

While I am not a religious man, I have understood the complaints of some conservatives over the past few years of department stores and other business bending over to political correctness by saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. After all, it is the Christmas season that gives all of these retailers their end of year push so the way I look at it, don't bite the hand that feeds you. However, this year's "War on Christmas" has reached a new level of insanity.

Joshua Feuerstein is the Christian extremists' version of Alex Jones. I would hope that most conservative Christians aren't buying into his nonsense. What do snowflakes and reindeer have to do with the birth of the Christ child anyway? I think sometimes westerners, particularly Americans, forget that Christmas is celebrated all over different parts of the world, many places where it's summer time in December. No snow, folks. It's got dick to do with the holiday. Their new cup design, however, is certainly indicative of the holiday. If you can't deal with that, well, don't go to Starbucks then.

As an agnostic I don't have a problem in general with people having their religious beliefs, but when Christians start whining about how atheists, agnostics, and others have a problem with them, well, look no further than asshats like Feuerstein to understand why.

The level of whining that conservatism has come to is just nauseating. They whine about everything.

They seem to want to tell everyone else exact rules on what you can and can do before, during, and after Christmas. AS IF they own the holiday.

Now whining about a red cup? A FRIGIN RED CUP!

We can only hope Starbucks doesn't take the obvious step to a brutal bloody war by issuing a GREEN cup.

WTF is wrong with these people?

^^Oh look a hysterical self righteous lib lecturing the masses about taking things too seriously. What a shock.

You are defending outrage over a cup being red.

What's next, castigating a department store because its Nutcrackers have no nuts!

How about these hypocrites stop paying to produce fugly red cups and instead pay their employees a living wage?

Go start a 'living wage' thread or post to one of many already started. Else the thought police ban you entirely!

And interesting, why are red cups ugly? You have a bad 'red cup' memory? Maybe from Korea or Macy's?

Does Starbucks give their employees a Christmas bonus along with diversity lectures?

 

[IsaacNewton]

The level of whining that conservatism has come to is just nauseating. They whine about everything.

They seem to want to tell everyone else exact rules on what you can and can do before, during, and after Christmas. AS IF they own the holiday.

Now whining about a red cup? A FRIGIN RED CUP!

We can only hope Starbucks doesn't take the obvious step to a brutal bloody war by issuing a GREEN cup.

WTF is wrong with these people?

^^Oh look a hysterical self righteous lib lecturing the masses about taking things too seriously. What a shock.

You are defending outrage over a cup being red.

What's next, castigating a department store because its Nutcrackers have no nuts!

How about these hypocrites stop paying to produce fugly red cups and instead pay their employees a living wage?

Go start a 'living wage' thread or post to one of many already started. Else the thought police ban you entirely!

And interesting, why are red cups ugly? You have a bad 'red cup' memory? Maybe from Korea or Macy's?

Does Starbucks give their employees a Christmas bonus along with diversity lectures?

Check their corporate website. Refer any further labor questions to their human resources dept. Thanks for contacting Starbucks, we are currently working through the whole loon red cup vomitosus.

And, we are not sure how our new 'blood of Christ' cappuccino offering is going to go over. The coffee will be sold in a white cup with snowflakes, but the coffee will be bright red.

We don't anticipate any problems but who knows, I mean we are being crucified over red cups.

 

[BlueGin]

That's what I thought. Starbucks = All blather no substance.

Just like the rest of the liberal's fake agendas.

 

[IsaacNewton]

That's what I thought. Starbucks = All blather no substance.

Just like the rest of the liberal's fake agendas.

So you are under the impression that someone here is a Starbucks rep?

That sounds like a fake agenda.

 

[BlueGin]

That's what I thought. Starbucks = All blather no substance.

Just like the rest of the liberal's fake agendas.

So you are under the impression that someone here is a Starbucks rep?

That sounds like a fake agenda.

Look at you stepping off into looney land.

Starbucks...Lectures the masses on morality and doesn't pay employee benefits, maternity leave or a living wage. What is it that they say about getting your own house it order before lecturing others? Starbucks needs to do that.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

It would be funny to come in with a solid red sleeve that you could slip over their cup.

 

[IsaacNewton]

That's what I thought. Starbucks = All blather no substance.

Just like the rest of the liberal's fake agendas.

So you are under the impression that someone here is a Starbucks rep?

That sounds like a fake agenda.

Look at you stepping off into looney land.

Starbucks...Lectures the masses on morality and doesn't pay employee benefits, maternity leave or a living wage. What is it that they say about getting your own house it order before lecturing others? Starbucks needs to do that.

I can't argue with any of that, give them a call.

 

[IsaacNewton]

It would be funny to come in with a solid red sleeve that you could slip over their cup.

Uhh, can you elaborate? The cup is already red.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

It would be funny to come in with a solid red sleeve that you could slip over their cup.

Uhh, can you elaborate? The cup is already red.

The new one is described as not being a solid one-tone red.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

 

[IsaacNewton]

It would be funny to come in with a solid red sleeve that you could slip over their cup.

Uhh, can you elaborate? The cup is already red.

The new one is described as not being a solid one-tone red.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

Oh jeezus, I'm not even following it that closely.

I'm still trying to figure out how a cup being red is anti Christmas. Red and Green are Christmas colors. If you wanted to be anti Christmas wouldn't you BAN all red and green?

Land O' the Bizarro.

 

[BlueGin]

It would be funny to come in with a solid red sleeve that you could slip over their cup.

Uhh, can you elaborate? The cup is already red.

The new one is described as not being a solid one-tone red.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

Oh jeezus, I'm not even following it that closely.

I'm still trying to figure out how a cup being red is anti Christmas. Red and Green are Christmas colors. If you wanted to be anti Christmas wouldn't you BAN all red and green?

Land O' the Bizarro.

Maybe it was the anti Christian quotes they were passing out. Just sayin.

 

[IsaacNewton]

It would be funny to come in with a solid red sleeve that you could slip over their cup.

Uhh, can you elaborate? The cup is already red.

The new one is described as not being a solid one-tone red.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

Oh jeezus, I'm not even following it that closely.

I'm still trying to figure out how a cup being red is anti Christmas. Red and Green are Christmas colors. If you wanted to be anti Christmas wouldn't you BAN all red and green?

Land O' the Bizarro.

Maybe it was the anti Christian quotes they were passing out. Just sayin.

What? You have a link for that? When was this?

 

[BlueGin]

It would be funny to come in with a solid red sleeve that you could slip over their cup.

Uhh, can you elaborate? The cup is already red.

The new one is described as not being a solid one-tone red.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

Oh jeezus, I'm not even following it that closely.

I'm still trying to figure out how a cup being red is anti Christmas. Red and Green are Christmas colors. If you wanted to be anti Christmas wouldn't you BAN all red and green?

Land O' the Bizarro.

Maybe it was the anti Christian quotes they were passing out. Just sayin.

What? You have a link for that? When was this?

See Clementine's post on page 24 about Starbucks cups with quotes printed on them. Since you weren't paying attention.

 

[Vandalshandle]

 

[Old Rocks]

Uhh, can you elaborate? The cup is already red.

The new one is described as not being a solid one-tone red.

When the cup was unveiled earlier this month, the coffee chain described it as having a, “two-toned ombré design, with a bright poppy color on top that shades into a darker cranberry below.”

Oh jeezus, I'm not even following it that closely.

I'm still trying to figure out how a cup being red is anti Christmas. Red and Green are Christmas colors. If you wanted to be anti Christmas wouldn't you BAN all red and green?

Land O' the Bizarro.

Maybe it was the anti Christian quotes they were passing out. Just sayin.

What? You have a link for that? When was this?

See Clementine's post on page 24 about Starbucks cups with quotes printed on them. Since you weren't paying attention.

A link, not another groundless claim.

 

[BlueGin]

The new one is described as not being a solid one-tone red.

Oh jeezus, I'm not even following it that closely.

I'm still trying to figure out how a cup being red is anti Christmas. Red and Green are Christmas colors. If you wanted to be anti Christmas wouldn't you BAN all red and green?

Land O' the Bizarro.

Maybe it was the anti Christian quotes they were passing out. Just sayin.

What? You have a link for that? When was this?

See Clementine's post on page 24 about Starbucks cups with quotes printed on them. Since you weren't paying attention.

A link, not another groundless claim.

It's on page 24 of this thread go look it up. Geez libs are lazy asses.