No Starbucks don’t care enough to hate anyone.

In some peoples minds not being treated exclusively special = oppression. As someone who grew up in those circles let me tell you the feeling of “we’re the most oppressed group in America” is strong. I remember thinking how can that be when I have never once been afraid of the government raiding our church and taking away our bibles. And there’s more churches than McDonald’s and some of them are wealthier than god.

I think they were mad a few years ago because the Christmas cup was red instead of having a design, which many Christians acted like was erasing Christianity or something? Typical US Christians pretending to be oppressed so they have something to complain about.

I think it also has to do with a certain portion of “Christians” having the perception of an “LGBTQ agenda” (whatever that means) that Starbucks is/was promoting partners to wear pronoun pins if they felt comfortable doing that.

It’s cuz they told baristas to say “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas” cuz not everyone celebrates Christmas. So in her mind they aren’t naming Christmas by name so it’s being exclusive with “holidays” and being hateful to Christian. I get lectured about it every holiday season. I always say “well I don’t celebrate Christmas but I do celebrate New Years, I don’t know what you celebrate but I hope yours is a happy one!”

It's possible the service workers who have had to deal with your sister hate her. It's unlikely it's because she's a christian though. Be honest... is she just an asshole?

I think people reach real deep for stuff like this

It's because they support LGBT people and other "progressive" causes, which they see as oppression.

I'm not a christian but during the holidays starbucks has a literal fucking christmas tree holding gift cards and ornaments and trinkets that say merry christmas, and usually little to zero Hanukkah/Ramadan/Kwanza-themed merchandise.

Some ppl just think that supporting or being part of LGBTQ = anti-Christian

Some Christian’s have this werid oppression kink going on….

Do they pay money? That's what we like.

Starbucks wants money from everyone. Just as any other large corporation.

That’s so strange to me cause I worked there and am Christian. Actually I know tons of Christians that work/ed there and drink Starbucks daily 🤷🏻‍♀️
Also I genuinely hope you’re never treated horribly just because of your beliefs and appearance when encountering other Christians. Imo they’re not really Jesus lovers if they’re treating you that way

Starbucks never directly mentions Christmas in their holiday launches. It’s simply “holiday themed”. This makes sense to me because Christmas is not the only holiday that is celebrated during that time of year. There are many other holidays from many different cultures and because Starbucks serves a diverse group of people it would make sense to be inclusive. However, Christian’s with a persecution complex like to whine about it.

BAHAHAHAHAHA that's the funniest thing I've ever heard 🤣🤣 it might also be because of how queer friendly Starbucks is for partners

Ah, the ever-persecuted Christian. Gotta love it.

The siren only hates unions. It couldn’t care less about a customers’ religion so long as the money’s good.

Christians? Naaah.

Now your sister on the other hand? Yeah we don’t want her there lol

lol is this because sbux is pride friendly? seems like the only reason they’d “hate christians”

Pretty sure she just thinks that because of that stupid red cup that one year lol

Nah Starbucks loves the Christians. They want everybody’s money so they pander to as many groups as possible 🤣

They don’t hate Christians at all. But one year, possibly 2017-2018 for the holidays, Starbucks decided to exclude the word “Christmas” from their advertisements, more specifically, their holiday cup design, and people went bonkers. Christian Americans thought it was a war against Christianity but truly it was a move to be more inclusive for all religions.
Honestly, all my time working for Starbucks, open Christians have been the most offended by Starbucks choice to move from a Christian approach to a more inclusive company.

Hi! Christian partner here. Starbucks only hates people who want workers' rights

Lol I had to explain to my nephew that no, SB doesn't hate veterans. Solidarity, pal

Ah yes. Manufactured outrage.

they say this bc Starbucks stuff generally doesn’t say merry Christmas, it says happy holidays, which they think means they hate Christians lol

lol I work here and I’m a Christian…wear a cross necklace all the time at work. not Christian in the conservative way but I don’t care about customers religions at all. They’re just looking for a way to feel oppressed and act like the victim. Love is ultimately in my eyes what Christianity is about but a lot of people are missing it….

I can tell you that my very older Christian neighbour made a comment like “how can you work there? It’s full of gays and trans people and there are rainbow flags all over the place - it’s disgusting”. So I told her that the people I work with are amazing and that her attitude wasn’t very Christ-like.

Lmao imagine being so self centered and hateful that you see being accepting of groups/people that you hate as being hateful towards you

There was a holiday cup controversy in 2015 (plain red cups with the Starbucks logo on them instead of having a winter themed pattern or scene on them like the years before that) about them taking Merry Christmas of their holiday cups when they had never had those words on their holiday cups ever before that year. A conservative Christian named Joshua Feuerstein started the rumor and said it was part of a secular war on Christmas and also was saying that Starbucks partners couldn't say Merry Christmas or they would be fired. None of it was true. They're are several different gift cards and cups each year that have the words Merry Christmas on them as well as some Kwanzaa and Chanukah themed gift cards. We don't leave anyone out except maybe solstice celebrators like myself. I am not complaining. At the time my parents fully drank that kool-aid about the war on Christmas and banned Starbucks from our family home. When I went to work at Starbucks in 2020 my mom had a full on Jesus cow about it. I even bought her a Christmas gift card to prove to her that they weren't evil like she was told.

Baristas hate working during the Sunday rush. I'm not sure it's all the Christians fault but they do have a ton more churches by comparison.

Does she still have a trump flag out front of the house?

Lol starbucks don't hate Christians but as someone who's been abused by them I sure as hell do

We have a huge crowd the comes every Sunday because of our proximity to a church. They don't come the entire month of June though...

Sounds like a chronically aggrieved conservative Christian.

I would’ve cared so little id reply “sooo…. Dunkin?”

Huh, here I was thinking it was in reference to how open LGBT+ Starbucks (generally) is. Given the typical 20th century Christians going on about how being gay is a sin and all that.

i only hate the christians that tell my coworkers and i that jesus loves us because of how we look

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Well they told me today that I can no longer take a religious Sabbath because we are understaffed… so..

> I'm pretty sure if I walked into a Christian coffee shop I would be treated like shit because of what I look like.... and the fact that I'm atheist

I'm a non-believing, non-religious person who has worked in Christian stores in the past...

No, you almost certainly wouldn't be. No one would likely give a shit what you look like, or whether or not you're an atheist. By and large, they're just there to do their job.

*Edit: Similar to how some religious people sometimes seem to think that atheists go through their lives with gods, religions, and believers at the front of their minds, I think some atheists occasionally make the same mistake, seemingly assuming that religious people live in a perpetual state of atheist panic. Perhaps some do, but my experience is that they are by no means the norm or common. Having worked with religious people in religious settings, I can't personally think of a single example of someone treating a person "like shit" for looking a certain way or for not sharing their beliefs. If anything, someone obviously "different" coming in was often a welcome change. Otherwise, no one cared.*