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4chan makes fake starbucks coupons for free coffee for black people
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2018-04-18 at 11:37 PM UTCHow much shit do you think will go down as a result of this? My guess is starbucks honors the coupons because black people are going to start getting mad when they don't get free coffee.
Also "I heard ya'll was racist so I'm here for my free coffee" LOL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/04/18/fake-coupons-are-popping-up-promising-free-starbucks-coffee-for-african-americans/Six days after two African American men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks, an Internet hoax is falsely suggesting the company has issued a coupon that entitles African Americans to free coffee. The fake coupons followed days of protest, a personal apology to the men from the company’s CEO and an announcement the company would close more than 8,000 U.S. stores on May 29 to educate its employees about racial bias.
The coupons, which are circulating on social media, say the holder is entitled to one free drink “Limited to persons of African American heritage and/or identity.” Many use the phrase, “The best dialogue starts over a cup of coffee, and we’d like to buy you one.” They appear to have originated on 4chan, wrote Business Insider, which noted that in some coupons, “Baristas are instructed to use discount code 1488, the combination of two numbers that have become symbols of white supremacy. The QR code for the coupon links to a website page that translates the code as the n-word.”
“This is completely false and in no way associated with Starbucks,” a company spokeswoman told The Washington Post.
Ann Coulter also referenced the hoax coupons on Twitter, after Donald Trump Jr. tweeted on Wednesday that President Trump had nominated a Marine to become the first black female general. “AND she gets free coffee at Starbucks,” wrote Coulter.
Referencing the coupons seems to have gotten one man a free coffee. Twitter user Bryan Sharpe posted a video of himself going into a Starbucks and saying, “I heard y’all was racist, so I came to get my free coffee.”
“Is that a real thing? I mean, I’ll give it to you. I saw that on my Twitter last night,” said the barista, who makes pleasant conversation with Sharpe throughout the exchange.
Sharpe’s Twitter name is Hotep Jesus, and his page links to a site called Hotep Nation that states the group is “opposed to the Democratic Party” and anti-Black Lives Matter. Alt-right websites like Infowars and Dangerous, the site run by Milo Yiannopoulos, have seized upon the incident. Dangerous wrote Sharpe is “one of a burgeoning movement of African Americans who mock leftist identity politics and their hackneyed concept of ‘social justice’ in the United States.”
It is not the first time Internet hoaxers have circulated fake Starbucks coupons. In August, fake coupons for a “Dreamer Day” at the coffee shop began to circulate, saying undocumented immigrants would be entitled to a 40 percent discount on coffee. The coupons, which also appeared to originate on 4chan, used the hashtag “#borderfreecoffee.” Starbucks debunked the hoax on Twitter. The company has previously been a target for conservatives who believe the company’s holiday cups are too nondenominational.
Starbucks has also had previous missteps in addressing racial inequality in the U.S. In 2015, the company launched “Race Together,” an initiative to encourage customers and employees to discuss race while they waited for their drinks. Baristas were encouraged to write “Race Together” on coffee cups. An internal memo instructed stores to post “conversation starters” at the register, including prompts for people to discuss how many of their friends are of a race different from their own. The initiative was widely mocked. -
2018-04-19 at 12:16 AM UTCAs a proud black man (melanin challenged) without a link this thread is worthless.
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2018-04-19 at 12:19 AM UTCIt was a little bit funny after reading the Zok story of coupons in somewhat Irony someone posted it here yet it being a widespread news story.
then it became 0 funny with the hate speech being indicated with the 1488 and coded N word. it wasn't meant to be funny at that point and not only will it get that person into trouble with the feds but also a hate crime will be attached to the posters of it. especially the USA or Germany or one of these other countries become more strict on how freespeech is defined. -
2018-04-19 at 12:21 AM UTCand I meant greenplastic brining up the story on here and not that free coffee coupons was posted on here.
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2018-04-19 at 12:24 AM UTC
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2018-04-19 at 1:13 AM UTC
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2018-04-19 at 1:17 AM UTCDghdbj
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2018-04-19 at 2:20 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-04-19 at 5:44 AM UTCwhy is that ape wearing a raincoat
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2018-04-19 at 5:53 AM UTCsee we should start doing this sorta shit again
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2018-04-19 at 6:46 AM UTC
Originally posted by BeigeWarlock It was a little bit funny after reading the Zok story of coupons in somewhat Irony someone posted it here yet it being a widespread news story.
then it became 0 funny with the hate speech being indicated with the 1488 and coded N word. it wasn't meant to be funny at that point and not only will it get that person into trouble with the feds but also a hate crime will be attached to the posters of it. especially the USA or Germany or one of these other countries become more strict on how freespeech is defined.
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2018-04-19 at 8:52 AM UTC4Chan is actually doing lulzworthy things again?
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2018-04-19 at 8:54 AM UTC
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2018-04-19 at 9:07 AM UTClulz
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2018-04-19 at 11:44 AM UTC
Dat QR codeThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-04-19 at 12:14 PM UTCthose fucking nupol retards kept putting the hashtag in the thread header making it so they came up on a rudimentary google search, even buzzfeed got on that ass quick. 4chan isnt what it was.
