Howard Schultz - Starbucks CHO - 8 Years Late to the Hatefest

The Chief Hypocrisy Officer of Starbucks has suddenly decided that we all need to just... get along. He is running full page ads lamenting the animosity and even hate that Americans, in his judgement, have just discovered we have for one another. He seeks to remind us that this "new" discourse, which coincidentally just started in July of 2015, is tearing us apart and even hurting people. Can't we just express our opinions without indicating any sort of disdain, critique or in anyway sliming anyone else who might hear our opinions, or worse see our name written in chalk on the sidewalk?

I'm thinking there is a 50/50 chance you already know why this is so hypocritical of Howard, but let's lay it out for everyone else. The hateful, name-calling, personal smearing, you-name-it baiting has been going on full bore for over 7 years now. No... to be fair, it's been going on for decades. But either way, the left has been smearing the right and anybody who dares to show even ambivalence to opinions held by someone on the right for a very long time.

It's been impossible to turn on MSNBC the past 7 years without viewers being called racist if you disagree with anything the current president says or believes. That's if you are white or minority, if black you get called much worse things. The previous eight years, if you agreed with anything that president said, you were flat-out stupid (oh, that hasn't stopped by the way).

Hollywood has made many movies to point out their beliefs that anyone on the right is stupid, racist, hateful, dishonest, ugly and if the character happens to be over about 45, also senile. Meanwhile, leftists in the movies are made of sugar and spice, and everything nice.

How many times has the current president jumped head first into some local issue, instantly blaming a police officer when the president heard some black person has possibly, allegedly, been victimized. Bigotry anyone? No of course not, only the right is bigoted, remember sugar and spice?

Howard, Black Lives Matters has chanted for the killing of Police. Howard? I guess he was traveling that week. Leftist organizations have paid protesters to wreak havoc on towns like Ferguson Ill. The President has admonished Christians for complaining about peoples heads being cut off in the middle east.... because of you know, the Crusades.

On college campuses nationwide, speakers known to be from the right side of the aisle are prohibited from speaking, and people who want to attend are prevented from attending. Prevented by blocking roads and entrances, physical intimidation, threats against the administrators. Prevented in other words, by force.

Not even a peep out of Howard. You see, the left believes all these hateful things about the right are true... so it's not hate speech when they say it. It's just intelligent analysis combined with snappy dialogue. Only when the Donald Trump started giving the left (and other republicans) a taste of it's own medicine did the main stream media and other democrats erupt with reports and sadness about the "rise" in hate speech lately. As in, the last 9 months.

So when Emory students discover the name "Trump" scrawled in chalk amongst the chalk scrawling's of Bernie and BLM, they erupt. They've been traumatized by the very name of He Who Shall Not Have His Name Scrawled in Chalk. Many feel sick, and need counseling. One is so misinformed about the candidate, she thinks the KKK has arrived on campus. And of course, they find a willing (and slightly terrified) college president who disavows the tagging of the Great Sata... er, the Great Donald, and vows to hunt down to the ends of the earth the infidels responsible.

Well, Howard is also erupting. He is also traumatized by the terrifying specter of left wing tactics being used on his peace loving, tolerant, bridge building, citizen of the world presidential candidate. And he has just realized we have less than 4 months away from the Republican Convention, after which Donald will train his left-wing style attack-dog politics on Howard's candidate Hillary.

It's okay for the left to spray the right with hate speech for years. Hate speech is only bad when it comes from the right, and is aimed at the left. Howard actually seems to be a good CEO, but as CHO he shows himself to be an emperor without clothes, without clue, and without shame for the hatefest that he has helped create over the years.