{"id":178184,"date":"2019-02-13T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/13\/new-poster-child-for-backpfeifengesicht-a-face-that-needs-to-be-punched\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:51:00","slug":"new-poster-child-for-backpfeifengesicht-a-face-that-needs-to-be-punched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/13\/new-poster-child-for-backpfeifengesicht-a-face-that-needs-to-be-punched\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poster Child for Backpfeifengesicht, a Face That Needs to Be Punched"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am referring, of course, to Howard Schultz, who is running for President.<\/div>\n

The self-involved whining is annoying, but when he unironically took Stephen Colbert’s joke on race and tried to pass it off as his own bit of brilliance<\/a>, he jumped C. Megalodon:<\/p>\n

Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO and potential 2020 independent presidential candidate, is facing criticism for responding to a question on racial bias by saying that he does not \u201csee colour\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs somebody who grew up in a very diverse background as a young boy in the projects I didn\u2019t see colour as a young boy and I honestly don\u2019t see colour now,\u201d Schultz, who is from Brooklyn, said during a CNN town hall event in Houston on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n

He was speaking about the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia last year<\/a> which ignited a racial profiling storm and prompted Schultz to close stores nationwide for four hours of staff anti-racial bias training.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is wrong on so many levels.<\/p>\n

First, it this expression was a bit or irony created by Stephen Colbert to mock conservatives who were claiming that racism no longer existed.<\/p>\n

Second, he grew up in Canarsie Bayview Houses, which while federally subsidized, was middle class and largely segregated when he grew up there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What a tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am referring, of course, to Howard Schultz, who is running for President. The self-involved whining is annoying, but when he unironically took Stephen Colbert’s joke on race and tried to pass it off as his own bit of brilliance, he jumped C. Megalodon: Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO and potential 2020 independent presidential …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,405,406,403],"class_list":["post-178184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}