"Doubtless, you’ve seen the picture circulating around Twitter of the protesters at Starbucks yelling at a single barista as he stands there taking it.
The picture is such a meme-able one that I expect this picture of poor Zack and his misfortune to be seen around the internet for a good long while.
For those curious, this is a protest in a Philidelphia Starbucks that arose after two black men were arrested for no other reason than they were sitting in a Starbucks without having purchased anything.
...The commentary the image gives us is spectacularly accurate of our own times.
Here we have a social justice warrior surrounded by his fellows in the angry mob, bullhorn aimed squarely at working man Zack.
Zack did nothing wrong, and yet looks on ahead at nothing as he stoically and quietly takes whatever abuse the crowd throws at him despite his innocence.
Zack stays quiet for two reasons.
For those curious, this is a protest in a Philidelphia Starbucks that arose after two black men were arrested for no other reason than they were sitting in a Starbucks without having purchased anything.
...The commentary the image gives us is spectacularly accurate of our own times.
Here we have a social justice warrior surrounded by his fellows in the angry mob, bullhorn aimed squarely at working man Zack.
Zack did nothing wrong, and yet looks on ahead at nothing as he stoically and quietly takes whatever abuse the crowd throws at him despite his innocence.
Zack stays quiet for two reasons.
- One is that anything uttered out of his mouth will immediately be taken wrongly and will only cause the mob to go into loud hysterics.
- The second reason is that Zack is a modern man who will take the abuse because society has told him that he deserves it, and in order to be a good guy he must take whatever punishment the mob throws at him..."
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