Missouri AG Sues Starbucks Because Its ‘Workforce Has Become More Female And Less White’

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In today’s episode of White Conservatives Want To Be Oppressed So Bad, a Republican attorney general is suing Starbucks because — *checks notes* — its ” workforce has become more female and less white.”

According to a news release from his office, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday accusing Starbucks of “discriminatory” hiring practices. Bailey claims his suit is meant “to halt this blatant violation of the Missouri Human Rights Act in its tracks.” Like virtually all white-and-eternally-fragile anti-diversity complaints, Bailey appears to have decided that the very existence of a workforce that isn’t overwhelmingly white and male, in and of itself, proves white men are being discriminated against.

“Starbucks’ commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is mere pretext for its actual commitment to unlawful discrimination,” Bailey wrote in the 59-page lawsuit, citing Starbucks’ employment data from 2020 to 2024 as evidence. “In other words, since 2020, Starbucks’s workforce has become more female and less white.”

Again, Bailey’s lawsuit assumes anti-white male discrimination is happening at the coffee chain simply because fewer white men are working there than there were four years ago. MAGA conservatives have fostered an environment where white officials can walk into an establishment, notice there are too many women and people of color employed, call it discrimination and file lawsuits demanding that businesses end it by replacing non-white male employees with white male employees. We always knew this was what they meant by “make America great again,” and now they don’t even feel the need to hide it.

Also, Bailey has completely jumped off the logic train by inconceivably deciding that fewer white men working at Starbucks has caused an increase in the prices of the company’s products.

“With Starbucks’ discriminatory patterns, practices, and policies, Missouri’s consumers are required to pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services that could be provided for less had Starbucks employed the most qualified workers, regardless of their race, color, sex, or national origin,” the Klan-ish congressman wrote.

Imagine Bailey standing in front of a judge while he tries to come up with his best whitesplanation for why he thinks the prices at Starbucks would be lower if more white men were working there, or why he thinks lines would be shorter because, somehow, white men are more efficient at asking customers what size coffee they want.

Anyway, Starbucks refuted Bailey’s racist and stupid-ass narrative regarding their hiring practices.

“We disagree with the attorney general and these allegations are inaccurate,” Starbucks said in a statement to Fox 2 St. Louis. “We are deeply committed to creating opportunity for every single one of our partners (employees). Our programs and benefits are open to everyone and lawful. Our hiring practices are inclusive, fair and competitive and designed to ensure the strongest candidate for every job every time.”

The Republican warpath on DEI is just straight-up racism, and every new complaint is further proof of that.

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