{"id":477160,"date":"2022-07-23T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-is-paying-for-going-woke\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T17:03:30","slug":"starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-is-paying-for-going-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-is-paying-for-going-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"#Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is paying for going \u2018woke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e9316dd43\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e9316dd43\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-is-paying-for-going-woke\/#%E2%80%9CStarbucks_CEO_Howard_Schultz_is_paying_for_going_%E2%80%98woke%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is paying for going \u2018woke\u2019&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CStarbucks_CEO_Howard_Schultz_is_paying_for_going_%E2%80%98woke%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is paying for going \u2018woke\u2019&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Howard Schultz should have listened to me.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago,\u00a0I wrote a book\u00a0in which I observed that one of New York City\u2019s most infamous and intractable municipal problems \u2014 its lack of public restrooms \u2014 had been in part solved by the private sector, and by one business in particular: Starbucks. That was the case in my neighborhood, at least: On any given afternoon, the Starbucks at Park Row and Beekman would have a restroom line ten or twenty long, mostly European tourists carrying Century 21 shopping bags \u2014 it must have been in a guidebook somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>It was a classic case of the private sector creating a public good while bringing in new customers. But the public sector has to do its part, too, when it comes to basic services such as public safety. Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz has been a lifelong champion of the kind of sentimental urban progressivism that has helped to turn the public spaces of cities such as Portland and Philadelphia \u2014 and, unh<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ily, New York \u2014 into part-time homeless shelters and makeshift psychiatric wards.<\/p>\n<p>And now his business is paying the price for that.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-employees.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Schultz, speaking to Starbucks workers at a branch in China, has helped make the coffee chain a global brand. Now his company is in retreat in the US, due to crime.\" class=\"wp-image-23149046\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-employees.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-employees.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-employees.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-employees.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-employees.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Schultz, speaking to Starbucks workers at a branch in China, helped make the coffee chain a global brand. Now his company is in retreat in the US, due to crime.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/starbucks-cafe.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Schultz ushered in a policy allowing anyone to come off the street and use Starbucks\u2019 bathrooms, without having to pay like these customers. The move backfired when junkies started using the facilities to shoot up.\" class=\"wp-image-23149086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/starbucks-cafe.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/starbucks-cafe.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/starbucks-cafe.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Schultz ushered in a policy allowing anyone to come off the street and use Starbucks\u2019 bathrooms, without having to pay like these customers. The move backfired when junkies started using the facilities to shoot up.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Only a few years after opening all of its bathrooms to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> public as a grand <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-justice gesture, the coffee chain is closing stores around the country \u2014 mostly in big, progressive, Democrat-run cities \u2014 because the locations have become too dangerous for customers and staff. Homeless people camp in the bathrooms or make mad scenes in the cafes. So many junkies are using Starbucks restrooms to shoot up that the company has been\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/2019\/1\/14\/18182540\/starbucks-needle-disposal-sharps-boxes\">obliged to install needle-disposal boxes<\/a>\u00a0in some of its stores \u2014 <em>Welcome to Portland! <\/em>\u2014 and the employees who had to clean up those messes understandably complained about possible exposure to HIV and hepatitis.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two things that don\u2019t go together very well: 1.) Selling caffeinated adult milkshakes for six bucks a cup and 2.) hepatitis.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/los-angeles-starbucks.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A Los Angeles branch of Starbucks vandalized during a night of violence in October 2020. Starbucks plans to close six stores in the LA-metro area. \" class=\"wp-image-23149103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/los-angeles-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/los-angeles-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/los-angeles-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A Los Angeles branch of Starbucks vandalized during a night of violence in October 2020. Starbucks plans to close six stores in the LA-metro area. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schultz, who describes himself as a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jan\/28\/howard-schultz-starbucks-presidential-run-2020-centrist-independent\">lifelong Democrat<\/a>\u201d and who is big on the issues you\u2019d expect the CEO of Starbucks to attend to \u2014 gay marriage, climate change, etc. \u2014 has\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a26061564\/howard-schultz-kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-2020\/\">toyed around with running for president a couple of times<\/a>, and promised a politics based on a \u201cdeep level of compassion and empathy for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what Americans need from their government isn\u2019t compassion and empathy. Americans need safe streets, clean and orderly public places, effective law enforcement, and security in their persons and property. That isn\u2019t the sort of thing that you get from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/councilmember-seeks-to-make-seattle-an-abortion-sanctuary-city\/\">Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative<\/a>\u00a0crackpots in Seattle\u2019s city government \u2014 it\u2019s the kind of thing you get from hardheaded practical city leaders of the kind Rudy Giuliani used to be before he decided to become\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/06\/jan-6-committee-rudy-giuliani-appeared-drunk-donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump\u2019s drunk monkey-butler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/chicago-starbucks.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Three people were shot in front of a Chicago Starbucks in 2017. Although Chicago will not see any immediate branches shuttered, Schultz has said that \u201cthere are going to be many more store closures.\u201d\" class=\"wp-image-23149117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/chicago-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/chicago-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/chicago-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Three people were shot in front of a Chicago Starbucks in 2017. Although Chicago will not see any immediate branches shuttered, Schultz has said that <em>\u201c<\/em>there are going to be many more store closures.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Service via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/philadelphia-starbucks.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A Starbucks branch slated for closure in Philadelphia. In 2018, a Philly Starbucks was slammed for refusing to let two men use the bathroom because they weren\u2019t customers. The incident led the company to make its bathrooms open to all.\" class=\"wp-image-23149148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/philadelphia-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/philadelphia-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/philadelphia-starbucks.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A Starbucks branch slated for closure in Philadelphia. In 2018, a Philly Starbucks was slammed for refusing to let two men use the bathroom because they weren\u2019t customers. The incident led the company to make its bathrooms open to all.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Joseph Kaczmarek\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They\u2019re closing\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/local\/seattle\/starbucks-closing-5-seattle-stores-crime-concerns\/281-7137d7c9-7e4b-4559-97cf-7e975acf70d8\">five Starbucks stores in Seattle<\/a>, the chain\u2019s hometown \u2014 and, so far, they aren\u2019t closing any in Provo, Utah. There\u2019s a reason for that.<\/p>\n<p>There are whispers that this is a covert campaign against union organizers in Starbucks stores, but I think Schultz is starting to understand in a practical way what Democratic governance means for a big city: He complains that the municipal governments in question have \u201cabdicated their responsibility\u201d when it comes to law enforcement and mental health. Yes, they have.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-workers.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Despite turning Starbucks into the world's-largest coffee chain, Schultz became victim to his own \u201cwoke\u201d policies that turned many branches into drug dens.\" class=\"wp-image-23149163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-workers.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-workers.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/schultz-workers.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Despite turning Starbucks into the world\u2019s-largest coffee chain, Schultz has become a victim of his own <em>\u201c<\/em>woke\u201d policies.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But so has Howard Schultz, who was bullied into making a groveling apology after Starbucks employees in Philadelphia declined to let two men, who had not bought anything, use the caf\u00e9\u2019s restroom. The men were black and were arrested when they refused to leave. Starbucks apologized, changed its bathroom policy, fired the employee who called the police, and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/05\/03\/607973546\/men-arrested-in-philadelphia-starbucks-reach-settlements\">paid the two men an undisclosed sum of money<\/a>. Which is to say, Starbucks buckled under precisely the kind of nonsensical woke cultural politics that is ruining the cities where Starbucks now finds itself forced to close stores.<\/p>\n<p>Portland and Seattle won\u2019t enforce order in their cities \u2014 and Starbucks won\u2019t enforce the rules in its own stores, because doing so puts the company on the wrong side of the sophomoric social-justice sensibilities that Howard Schultz unfortunately shares.<\/p>\n<p>Woke capital plants the seeds of its own destruction \u2014 and cowardice is its own punishment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kevin D. 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