While a phony war takes place in Gaza, the real combat rages in coffee shops across America, even in Jackson.* The knucklehead over at Save JXN posted on TikTok a couple of weeks ago:
The walkout took place on December 11 at the Quarter (Lakeland Drive) and Fondren cafes as the employees struck in support of a cease-fire in the Hamas-Israeli War.
One barista even told a customer Israel should stop bombing Lebanon. Um, perhaps someone should tell her Hezbollah has fired over 1,000 rockets at Israel since October 7, forcing Israelis living within a few miles of the border to leave their homes. She does know what Hezbollah is or how Hezbollah wound up in Lebanon, right? Article on Hezbollah rockets.
The cafes in the hospitals, Ridgeland, and Madison are under different ownership and management.
For some reason, coffee shops have been a cultural front for the Hamas-Israeli War in America. Starbucks and the employees union have been slugging it out in court over the employees use of Starbucks logos in protesting against Israel. Starbucks has suffered protests, strikes, and boycotts as a result. Article.
Baristas at an Oakland coffee shop harassed a Jewish customer. The New York Post reported on December 7:
California coffee shop workers were filmed denying a Jewish customer access to the restroom after she complained it was filled with antisemitic graffiti — telling her “Free Palestine” and accusing her of wanting to use the facilities because “Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own.”
Three employees at Farley’s East in Oakland stood in front of the bathroom and told a distressed-sounding woman filming them that she had to leave.
“I want to go in the restroom,” the woman repeatedly implores the staffers, who tell her it’s private property even while confirming she was a customer who’d eaten there. Article and video.
A Jewish cafe owner saw all of his employees walk off the job but his customers saved the day. Fox 5 (NYC) reported:
Residents on the Upper East Side are showing an outpouring of support for the Israeli owner of a coffee house. Customers lined up around the block at Caffe Aronne on Tuesday after rumors spread on social media that all the shop's baristas quit, allegedly over the owner putting up pictures of the hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7 terror attack. "New York came together and supported us. It's really very special," said Aaron Daham, the owner of Caffe Aronne. "We put up Israeli flags in all of our locations, and then we put up kidnapping signs in all our windows and I think that’s what upset our team a lot of people were not willing to be a part of that and called it quits." Competitors and other local businesses also stepped in to help the café out. Article and video.
Kingfish note: It won't be surprising to see more of the same. Guess even coffee is now political.
Now, the Kingfish does not do boycotts. They rarely work and often hurt the little guy who had nothing to do with anything. However, if you want to help someone out, try ordering some coffee from that coffee shop in New York.
Yours truly ordered some Honduran roast coffee from Caffe Aronne and gave it to a friend. The friend loved it and ordered some more. Make no mistake, they want your business.
One knock (and there are many) against Mr. Edwards. He says "purple-haired" like it's a bad thing. What, pray tell, is wrong with purple or green hair?
* Homage to Fred Reed's passage in the December 1980's edition of Harpers: A Veteran Writes.
But perhaps it is the veteran's head to be right or wrong in, and maybe it makes a difference what memories are in the head. For the jello writers the war was a moral fable on Channel Four, a struggle hinging on Nixon and Joan Baez and the inequities of this or that. I can't be sure. The veterans seem to have missed the war by having been away in Vietnam at the time and do not understand the combat as it raged in the internecine cocktail parties of Georgetown.
28 comments:
Cups in Clinton is booming. I mean booming. No idea who owns that one, but I’ve yet to see any Israeli or Palestinian flags. Just coffee drinkers.
To me, this just sounds like it was a convenient excuse to take New Year's Day off.
They are just trying to bring Jackson up to speed with the other cities our youth apparently flock to.
‘Fish, the term is Dangerhair and for good reason.
At the American Museum of Natural History's exhibition The Power of Poison, you'll learn how certain colors may signal that an animal is poisonous or venomous.
HTH
The problem with the "purpose haired" is that they make their politics your problem. If they strike fire them
This is a fruitless protest, but I understand where those kids are coming from. I mean, what else are we supposed to do if we disagree with the fact that our own government (with our tax money) is funding the ending of civilian lives? At least those kids did something.
We as a society absolutely HAVE TO STOP WITH THE POLITICAL DIVISION. It is like nails on a chalk board at this point and I CANT be the only person who is sick and tired of this stuff. I go to coffee shops for absolutely no other reason than to PURCHASE AND DRINK COFFEE.
Cups should get rid of the employees that placed their fake concern about the current *thing* over the business. I am sure those positions won't be hard to fill.
I will also be grabbing a coffee at that location because of this post.
I won't assume, like Clay did, that the owners support losing money on the first day of the year to support a protest by the local blue hair society.
1:37, one of the consequences of war is the unfortunate loss of civilian life. It is what happens when one side uses civilians as human shields and conducts military operations from civilian facilities like schools, mosques, and hospitals. Were these same young people protesting the slaughter and rape of civilians by Hamas with no purpose other than pure terrorism? Were they protesting the use of human shields by Hamas that is responsible for the civilian deaths in Gaza? Do they think a cease fire will do anything more than lead to more bloodshed and death when Hamas is in a position to renew its efforts to slaughter every Jew in Israel, its actual goal? Perhaps a bit of education would do the protesters some good. Bedsides, Biden’s lifting sanctions against Iran has done nothing but provide Iran with more money to fund Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. Maybe they should be protesting that.
When American teens support terrorists, it just means the terrorist’s propaganda is working. And our education system isn’t.
Our young people today (and some old) have no idea how to think critically. They just run with whatever their preferred media outlet tells them. Goes for both sides on every issue.
On MY video, Clay said "purple" haired
"To me, this just sounds like it was a convenient excuse to take New Year's Day off".
January 2, 2024 at 1:26 PM
"I won't assume, like Clay did, that the owners support losing money on the first day of the year to support a protest by the local blue hair society".
January 2, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Please read the OP agin... slower perhaps. Starting with KF's first sentence.
The employees walked out of Cups back on Monday DECEMBER 11th, not yesterday.
Cups in Fondren & Starbucks in Renassiance lost my business over Barista’s lack of hygiene- and body piercing. And both shops are filthy.
Cups in Fondren & Starbucks in Renassiance lost my business over Barista’s lack of hygiene- and body piercing. And both shops are filthy.
I'm sure Israel took note of a strike by employees at a coffee shop in Jackson, Mississippi. That will show those Israelis.
At the rate we're going we'll all be drinking tea and using chopsticks, soon.
4:17? Not accurate at all on Starbucks Renaissance. I'm there every day.
3:48: My bad. -1:26
5:15 Your hygiene standards are different than mine.
Most of y'all that are mad at the "purple-haired kids" are from the generation that raised them. They are who you raised them to be.
Kingfish—you are like a bad take factory when it comes to this “phony war” you are cheering on. There is nothing more “phony” about this war than there is about the 8,000 Gazan children who have been indiscriminately slaughtered during this real war.
I don’t know what it is about being in the last forty years of your life and wanting to give Israel a blank check to kill whatever child they want, but there does seem to be a correlation between needing a life alert system and somehow thinking Israel is the “little guy” here. Yes, on October 7, Israel suffered a horrific terrorist attack by Hamas, and yes, Israel should defend itself. But there’s a difference between defending yourself and slaughtering individual bystanders with more gusto than Hannibal Lector would have (which is absolutely what it looks like). Indeed, Israeli forces even killed three of their OWN HOSTAGES at close range (who were not mistakable for Hamas fighters) because the Israeli forces are so bad at distinguishing between Hamas fighters and anyone else (even the people they are supposed to be rescuing). If they are so bad at telling the difference between their own citizens and Hamas, how is anyone supposed to have faith that they can tell the difference between Hamas and innocent, apolitical Gazan people.
Israel had most of the world’s sympathy on October 7. But now, they just look like one bad guy going after another bad guy (Hamas) and not even attempting to avoid widespread slaughtering innocent children while they are at it. This makes it extremely hard to cheer for the IDF.
plus one 6:57am.
My parents raised me with morals, ethics and critical thinking skills that would have made me giggle at other idiots my age, if they behaved this way.
Parents have no one to blame but themselves.
Still drinking my Kroger Brand Coffee with some cash left over.
Try reading the note at the end of the post, knucklehead.
As for your CLAIM that thousands of Gazan children were killed, sorry, that number means nothing as it came from Hamas, which has been caught time and time again fabricating numbers. Of course, dupes or propagandists such as yourself will take any number spewed out by Hamas and run with it. Hamas knows you will which is why they fabricate numbers. Just like Hamas claimed Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 people when it turned out the dumbasses hit their own hospital parking lot with their own rocket.
I bet during WW2 you would have screamed about killing German or Jap children too. It's a war and innocents get killed when the bombing starts. That's the way it is.
As for the hostages, yeah, that really sucked. Soldiers are conducting day after day of uptempo operations in a combat zone. Tired, worn out, and have itchy trigger fingers. No one expected hostages to free themselves and guess what Hamas likes to do? Fake surrenders. Friendly fire happens in war and it happened here.
Good job on the 9:17 am post, Kingfish
The sheltered generation that has grown up without war, is now being forced to see how brutal it is and what our former military heros have endured.
No matter how many your Mom and Dad sheltered you from, there are consequences to actions.
Really ugly ones. War is not pretty and it is a shame Hamas has started one.
But to pretend Israel is the villain, well I suppose it is expected given the upside down world in which we currently live.
January 3, 2024 at 6:57 AM
I am of the "purple haired generation" and I hate my generation. Does it surprise you that there are conservative millennials?
January 3, millennial? AM
Why should anybody give a shit about a group of people who when given materials to better their lives (water pipe) turn it into rockets. The more dead Palestinians the less problems.
Oh and 80%+ of Palestinians approve of Hamas.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-palestinians-opinion-poll-wartime-views-a0baade915619cd070b5393844bc4514
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