{"id":2868,"date":"2023-06-08T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2024-06-09T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T17:29:30","slug":"starbucks-going-full-bud-light-after-new-woke-commercial-faces-massive-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/08\/starbucks-going-full-bud-light-after-new-woke-commercial-faces-massive-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Officially Done Buying Starbucks Coffee After Seeing This Outrageous Woke Ad!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Starbucks India has drawn criticism and faced calls for boycotts after its latest woke commercial.\u00a0 The company has been accused of \u201cgoing full Bud Light\u201d after its latest promotion featuring parents meeting their transgender daughter at a Starbucks location.<\/p>\n<p>The video depicts a father who struggles to accept the transition but comes to terms with it at the end of the advertisement by ordering his transgender daughter a drink in their new name. Starbucks India tweeted the video with the caption, \u201cYour name defines who you are \u2013 whether it\u2019s Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us.\u00a0#ItStartsWithYourName.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your name defines who you are &#8211; whether it&#39;s Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ItStartsWithYourName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ItStartsWithYourName<\/a>. \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DKNGhKZ1Hg\">pic.twitter.com\/DKNGhKZ1Hg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Starbucks India (@StarbucksIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarbucksIndia\/status\/1656133960924012545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Starbucks India has faced massive backlash from the advertisement.\u00a0 Political commentator, Rukshan Fernando tweeted, \u201cStarbucks facing a backlash in India after going full Bud Light. If saturating the market with a mediocre US coffee brand wasn\u2019t bad enough, now they are bringing their woke corporate culture to the Sub-Continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Starbucks facing a backlash in India after going full Bud Light. If saturating the market with a mediocre US coffee brand wasn&#39;t bad enough, now they are bringing their woke corporate culture to the Sub-Continent.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/09EU5ZPFwe\">pic.twitter.com\/09EU5ZPFwe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rukshan Fernando (@therealrukshan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealrukshan\/status\/1657856936728211456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One user tweeted in Starbucks India\u2019s comment section, \u201cIt is deeply disconcerting to witness the rapid erosion of cultural identity in our current era. Certain liberal forces persistently normalize practices that appear to undermine the very fabric of our cherished traditions and deeply held values. The pace at which this unsettling phenomenon unfolds is cause for genuine alarm. It is NOT a coincidence. It is a deliberate strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another user weighed in, \u201cI am a huge starbucks fan Virtually spend thousands of rupees in their coffee shop every year But still i can\u2019t believe why\u00a0@StarbucksIndia\u00a0would launch a woke campaign in the name of advertisement? Can\u2019t they just market their coffee and service to India Their service is the best in the world Who designs such campaigns to guilt trip people which don\u2019t appeal\/apply to even 0.1 % Indians Perhaps I should my allegiance to Thirdwave coffee which has better coffee and equally good service and interiors like\u00a0#Starbucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another person commented,\u00a0What are you promoting\u00a0@Starbucks\u2026Don\u2019t promote such culture\u2026we don\u2019t want any lessons on the acceptance of such immoral values\u2026we are Bharatvasis &amp; we are very proud of our civilization all culture..we aren\u2019t some\u00a0#BollywoodVultures\u00a0to Promote such culture Abstain fm such Ads\u00a0#KaranJohar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand why brands do this\u2026 these ads alienate huge portions of the population. What ever happened to common sense advertising? Videos like this alienate more customers than they bring in. Literally throwing advertising dollars in the trash just to virtue signal,\u201d a disgruntled person tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>An American commented a warning to Indians, \u201cWarning to my homies in India:\u00a0Do not let these woke corporations, these woke people of any kinda have even the slightest chance of representation there.\u00a0Woke\u00a0is a\u00a0Social Cancer\u00a0and it spreads quickly. Stop this before you end up confused on which bathroom to use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>America has exported woke culture all around the globe, and Starbucks India just provided yet another example of this phenomenon.\u00a0 Since the end of World War II, the United States has been the global hegemon of liberalism, and many other nations have sought to mimic its culture.\u00a0 In modern times this translates to countries adopting wokeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Starbucks India has drawn criticism and faced calls for boycotts after its latest woke commercial.\u00a0 The company has been accused of \u201cgoing full Bud Light\u201d after its latest promotion featuring parents meeting their transgender daughter at a Starbucks location. The video depicts a father who struggles to accept the transition but comes to terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4861,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/4861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}