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What the Fark 2: That Was... Interesting.

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jen said:
I see no way at all this could go horribly wrong. :p

<a href="http://fortune.com/2015/03/16/starbucks-baristas-race-talk/">Starbucks encourages baristas to discuss race relations with customers</a>

While their intentions are noble and yes, it's an important discussion point... do people really want to talk about it when they get their coffee? If Starbucks is sharing its "values", how do they know each barista shares the same values? Don't enough people give half-assed opinions about things on which they are barely educated? This idea should wear Bad Idea Jeans.
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Starbucks stopped the campaign after 1 week, and claims <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/22/394710277/starbucks-will-stop-writing-race-together-on-coffee-cups">they, like, totally meant to do it that way</a>.
 
FlagDUDE08 said:
Please tell me we're switching to that soon...
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Gerrymandering will never allow it.

And any population explosion in a certain region would call for another "re-distribution" of the state lines.

What benefits are there to this? Equal representation in the House of Representatives and equal shares of the Electoral College, but what else?
 
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aparch said:
Gerrymandering will never allow it.

And any population explosion in a certain region would call for another "re-distribution" of the state lines.

What benefits are there to this? Equal representation in the House of Representatives and equal shares of the Electoral College, but what else?
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Not having to be associated with New York City. ;)
 
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