Video of Starbucks employee in UK branch

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https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1655477645184835586

It’s not clear what the customer said, it’s presumed she misgenders the employee as he calls her transphobic. He calls her Karen and then either grabs the phone or the person who’s filming.

Great, a weird ass violent employee and an even more weird ass thread discussing it.

You want to get to Specsavers, then!

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Orwell, 1984

Weel done to Starbucks for sacking the very very rude trans person. Clapping hands in the face of that poor lady was just dreadful. So rude to her. Thank goodness common sense is starting to prevail. Women suffer at the hands of men and trans people all the time and this is just another stage of all that. Many trans people have mental health issues. This particular one clearly should not be in a customer service role.

Misgendered? You would think she tried to punch it in the face based on that meltdown.

Fuck me. I feel sorry for the next company to that employ that cretin.

Thanks @NicCageisnotNickCave

Coming to ladies loos very soon.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Amazing that people can go through the education system, probably study this book, and are STILL capable of being suckered into this bullshit where they’re instructed to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears and they convince themselves not only that it’s true, but that they like it!! Mindblowing.

@hotdiggetydog but the Starbucks employee didn't say that they are a woman (as far as I know), they are very obviously male, and you have stated that the only way you would think they were a woman is if they stated that themselves, so why on earth do you see two women?

Do you really not see how nonsensical it is to just accept that someone is what they say they are, regardless of any empirical evidence?

If the Starbucks employee said they were a banana, or an alien, or something equally ridiculous and clearly untrue, would you suddenly see a woman and a banana, or a woman and an alien?

"I see them both as women. I don't know what the argument was about."

Did @hotdiggetydog misgender that person? 😱

Yo diggety!

One of these people is a male person who apparently identifies as non binary.

One of them is a female person and we don't know how she/he/they identifies, but given the context I'm going to take a wild guess it's not as a "cis woman".

So, by your rules, neither is a woman.

Please educate yourself and do better next time!

ooh, here's another conundrum - how does the person who claims to "see two women" know that the person shouting about transphobia isn't a trans man?

actually sorry they can't be a trans man, but they could be a transmasculine nonbinary since they've verbally rejected the label of "man."

What is it about them that made them appear transfeminine to that poster?

How very transphobic of you! There is one woman and one it/ they /them/nb/thing. Go and think about how transphobic your assumptions are.

From twitter

I've had a quick look but can't see if Starbucks have responded. Anyone know?

One matter is me making a mistake and then there's you labelling a non binary person as an "it" or a "thing"

Your language is absolutely disgusting and your prejudices shine right through.

Hmmm. All we know is that the employee is accusing the customer of being transphobic and wants them to leave because of that.
That doesn’t mean that the employee is themselves trans. It means that they didn’t like something said by the customer. The customer could have said something offensive about trans people and the employee didn’t like that.

You can refer to them as anything you like. I was just pointing out that the gesture to the earrings had been misinterpreted by you.

The 60 year old woman assaulted at Hyde Park Corner springs to mind.

And we have a live example of someone openly and enthusiastically willing to do this. Extraordinary.

I've just seen the clip on the news and he has been fired by Starbucks. Dreadful way to treat a customer.

Surely that’s the point of Orwell’s writing. To showcase the absurdity of human behaviours