- Feelings...Nothing More Than Feelings
We've discussed the permanently aggrieved nature of the modern progressives before.
...especially with their ability to concoct outrage and/or resentment in almost any given situation.
Take, for example, the young women's rights writer for The Guardian, who finds the Starbucks policy of asking for people's names a trigger for resentment.
Never mind that she doesn't even go to Starbucks, which she readily admits at the top of the article.
One doesn't need something as mundane as firsthand experience to take offense to things that aren't really offensive in the first place:
I do not drink the coffee in Starbucks because it doesn’t taste good. But even if I did, I wouldn’t, for another reason: my name. Because if you’re a half-Turkish, half-Iranian second-generation immigrant like I am, it means you have a name that few can pronounce... I’d rather not have to go through the rigmarole of painstakingly spelling it out to a barista..."Read all.
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