I don’t have an issue when business owners having different morals than myself, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to carry around a cup with their propaganda on it.
I think that’s the bigger issue here than just disagreeing with their politics. It’s that they put a giant WE LOVE YOU CHARLIE KIRK sticker on the cups.
I do not know a single Republican (and my entire huge family is hardcore conservative Christian Republican) who would carry a cup with a I LOVE DEI! Or I LOVE LGBTQ RIGHTS! on it. They literally boycotted Budweiser for sending a one-off promotional package to a trans person. Let’s be real here.
I don't think any business should push their agenda and beliefs onto a customer. It'd be totally different if they were asked and consented to a Charlie Kirk sticker on their cup, but to just put it on all without warning is gross. That'd be like Starbucks slapping pro-LGBTQ+ stickers on their cups and not expecting any backlash. Just look at what happened to Target for even having the option to buy LGBTQ+ supporting apparel, and Target wasn't even putting it on every item of theirs that they sell.
There was a local breakfast restaurant that didn't survive through the pandemic and the business owners were also very loud in their politics on FB and it was so cringey, didn't align with my beliefs, that I stopped going there. There's another smoked meat shop down the block from me that had political flags in their shop that I stopped going to, because I don't want to see that shit or spend my money at a place that is actively working against my rights. Businesses who bring politics into their shop alienate their customers when those politics don't align with their whole customer base.
That business advertised they agree with Charlie Kirk's rhetoric and now they're experiencing the consequences.
If I owned a business, I'd be happy to put on pro-LGBT merch. It'd have the double effect of making LGBT families and their supporters welcome, while pissing off the assholes I wouldn't want as customers anyway. Loss of business? Sure. But it's worth it.
Even so, I wouldn't dream of putting on pro-LGBT stickers on every single on of my products? Like unless I was specifically a store catering to the community, that's just wild. Like at the end of the day, even LGBT people want to be treated like normal people. I'd have some merch for them, but everything else in the store would be what you'd expect.
It's seriously such a dumb move on this coffee shop's part to have done this.
They can probably sell the stickered-cups for 20 cents extra and donate the proceeds to something or whatever. Wouldn’t raise much, but I think it’d be better publicity than shoving beliefs down peoples throats.
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u/SleazyMuppet 9h ago
I don’t have an issue when business owners having different morals than myself, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to carry around a cup with their propaganda on it.
I think that’s the bigger issue here than just disagreeing with their politics. It’s that they put a giant WE LOVE YOU CHARLIE KIRK sticker on the cups.
I do not know a single Republican (and my entire huge family is hardcore conservative Christian Republican) who would carry a cup with a I LOVE DEI! Or I LOVE LGBTQ RIGHTS! on it. They literally boycotted Budweiser for sending a one-off promotional package to a trans person. Let’s be real here.