By Benji Douglas
Just in case you thought the country would be healed and everyone would be fine after the election is over, Starbucks has given us a little preview of our annual Christmas-cup battle with their new “unity cup.”
Starbucks releases a cup designed to represent shared humanity… Gets this type of response… pic.twitter.com/VzNBNL5zq6
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 2, 2016
The cup, which is not specifically for Christmas, is green with a white circle and shows a bunch of people all standing together in good spirits. BLASPHEMY. If you need a reason to complain about it, maybe note that it’s a reminder of how crowded and unpleasant your train ride to work is.
Starbucks says it’s just supposed to represent unity at a divided time, but that hasn’t stopped a freakout from the people who need to feel outrage to know they’re alive.
Trying to figure out how I can possibly get offended by this Starbucks holiday cup. I guess someone will find a way pic.twitter.com/05Lo75us5r
— Geoff Kinns (@geoffkinns) November 1, 2016
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Generally speaking, the outrage around this time of year comes from religious people who think that everyone should be forced to observe their superstitions in the same way that they do. And for some reason, they believe that decorating a coffee cup is part of their religious tradition. You know that part of the Bible where Jesus reminds the apostles to celebrate his not-actual-birthday by drinking coffee?
So now religious nuts are mad that the cup’s not red, because apparently red is their thing now. It is also how we celebrate gay days at Disneyworld so who even knows.
In conclusion, Hillary Clinton deserves a better country to be president of.
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This article originally appeared on Queerty
Photo credit: Starbucks
That isn’t the holiday cup.
They are in now, they are red, and the one I got today was an ugly Christmas sweater design that was awesome, IMO.
This is a stupid non-troversy that needs to go away.
Starbucks doesn’t want to kill Christmas. They sell Christmas Blend coffee for goodness sake.
Don’t give these fake controversy theorists any attention, please.