>Carmen Quiroga called her cafe ‘Woke’ to signal to customers ‘Wake up and have a coffee’.

Clickbait. If you care about this, no coffee for you. Seems like a great way to keep bigots out of your place.

Just rename the restaurant, Wakey Wakey.

For.

Fuck's.

Sake.

People need to chill the fuck out.

Conservatives now concerned that coffee will make you gay and less racist.

there might be a correlation...

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You'd be surprised at how many mundane things that make you gay. Like clipping your own hair nostrils.

Your hairs have their own noses?

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I have to say no homo before wiping my ass.

This is the GOP.

Eggs and dead babies*

That'll really get under their skin.

Edit: homie I replied to deleted their comment because my cafe name was too good.

I don't know what is more ridiculous, the fact that some people criticized the name, or the fact that the existence of about a dozen comments on Facebook has made this a front page story.

Free advertising..

Shout out to my local coffee shop!

https://twitter.com/cameronesposito/status/1008374354978246656

Meanwhile Red State BBQ is alive and well in KY...

This article is literally the epitome of pointless culture war crap.

"Several people in a Coventry Facebook group complained about the restaurant being called Woke"

That's the story.

I'm genuinely not sure what's dumber. The 'several people' who bothered commenting about something so stupid on Facebook. Or the fact the Guardian have dedicated a whole article to what several people wrote on a Facebook group.

I hope so. It's a good reminder that unlike the internet, most people (like this shop owner) literally don't care about 'wokeism'. And just associate the word, quite rightly, with waking up and having breakfast.

Chilled out people aren’t going to vote angry tho.

Breitbart News: "Coffee makes you a Hitler hating liberal!"

There is quite the spectrum between bigotry and what is considered as woke today though.

Today 'woke' is considered what happens when good and necessary ideas are taken too far, out of context and are merely an excuse to search for bad intentions in everything. Which was obviously not what the woke ideology was originally about.

Said all that, when a coffee bar calls itself 'Woke', I think you should find that clever regardless of your ideas.

well, at least she will have less assholes as customers!

It’s not gay if you don’t like it.

But trans people are snowflakes

the fuck your feelings crowd huh

Or extending your palm away from you when inspecting your fingernails!

These conservatives are so very easily triggered.

Sadly, you might be in the silent minority with that one.

Haha I'm not denying that some like to use the negative connotation of 'woke' to make everything sound bad.

The extreme left will call everything bigotry and the extreme right will call everything woke. Because there can only be two options and once someone/something is labelled, further discussion isn't necessary...

They are so easily manipulated.

Yeah the original term woke was first used by people of color, long before the right decided to use it for propaganda purposes.

They make stuff up as a distraction so they don't have to deal with the real issues.

“People are so sensitive! It’s just a word. We said it all the time growing up.”

Looks up to see the sign for a cafe containing a word that has no real meaning and immediately sets himself on fire.

Please give us some examples of "when good and necessary ideas are taken too far". Being vague just makes us assume the worst of you.

From my job: really good that my large, international employer focuses on diversity and everyone feeling like they have no obstacles because of gender, sexuality, colour,... However, targeting 40% women in technical/engineering positions by 2025 when it's currently 30% and only 20% of graduates in engineering are women, is letting your perfectly fine ideas of equality run over the reality of the situation.

Also from my job: I've been denied an internal training because 'we are looking for a more diverse group'. Aka, we already have a few white men so we will now deny 70% of our workforce in light of 'diversity and equality'.

Oh or better! A big city in Belgium has publicly stated that if multiple applicants for a job have the same qualifications, they will chose the one from a minority group. Again, everyone deserves a job, but you can't justify obvious discrimination because it's not against a minority.

The name of this restaurant is not the problem for its owners. the problem is that the anti-woke revel in their stupidity. They don't even recognize that there are multiple meanings for many words. I would tell them they need to learn about homonyms but accuse me of being a groomer.

I mean, I don't need coffee to hate hitler.

And if you don’t clip your own, who the hell is going to do it for you?

Give little babies pacifiers when they throw a fit.

My vote is for the people who took it a step further, and are now arguing about it in the reddit comments.

This is the modern news cycle, it's all just outrage bait to get people riled up and talking shit about "the other team." Doesn't even matter if the topic at hand is factual as long as they can leverage it to rationalize being angry and attacking "the enemy."

Conservative snowflakes are the funniest snowflakes.

Offer an alternative like “Sleepy” may calm the sleepy down.

They wake too easily.

sad-funny, right?

like, being trapped on a planet of imbeciles funny

“Pacifier” is a good name for a hot milk drink for the non wokes.

People are so on dimensional.

Coffee this morning certainly woke me up.

"Several people in a Coventry Facebook group"

Naturally.

I'd like to know how many people make up several. Three? Five? Fifteen?

It's more they make up absolutely fake 'outrage' to distract attention from their asinine 'policies'.

"Leftists are so whiny and reactive!"

[Foams at the mouth over the name of a cafe that they've never been to and have no intention of visiting]

bad branding, unfortunate but makes sense. We live in a society. A icecream company in my country changed their name from isis (ice ice in my language) when the terror group was in the media a lot.

The "Fuck your feelings" crowd are, by far, the most emotional, easily enraged snowflakes you can imagine. Any issue they get pissed at is tiny compared to the stink they kick up about it.

They're not the same thing. Being woke is not the same as being a terrorist group, and changing the name would be bending into rightist misappropriation of the word.

So a dozen ppl complaining on Facebook makes headlines. Slow news day.

Wow so you are dragging out the ole anti affirmative action argument. Move along ppl nothing to see here.

You mean the 'don't fight discrimination with more discrimination but just against other people' argument? I absolutely do.

I'm not denying there was and is discrimination. But that's no reason to openly discriminate against me because I am a white man.

*young man btw. It's not like I've built a career on discriminating others.

Those tough rugged conservatives really are just a bunch of snowflakes.

of course its not the same thing, but it's the same principle. Some people don't like woke because of the group it represents, some people do.

Woke up, fell out of bed Dragged a comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup …

So you want them to bend over for the group that don't like woke?

> A big city in Belgium has publicly stated that if multiple applicants for a job have the same qualifications, they will chose the one from a minority group.

There needs to be some sort of tiebreaker in that case, what would you suggest? What's an equitable solution in that case?

As far as I know, they might spin a wheel. I don't know. But solving said problem by openly discriminating against people who don't happen to be a minority is as bad as the inverse.

"Shiny Red Button Cafe" is going to drive them nuts!

Their sauce is made with real KY

Woke up this morning and got yourself some angry conservatives.

Meeeeaahhhh liberals are too sensitive

The irony is that the shop owner claims she doesn't know the political inflection of "woke" and therefore shouldn't be judged for using it how she sees fit with no regard how it affects other people. Which is the EXACT argument against political correctness.

The right wingers in this town want political correctness in their own way, this is hilarious.

Knew I'm getting past it when the barber spends as much time cutting the hair from my ears, nose, and eyebrows as he does the hair on top of my head.

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The emphasis is on the "your"...

Well water turns frogs gay and coffee is made with water.

culture war BS clickbait is the new 'Sex Sells'.

She can change the name and still be Mexican and that’ll still cause problems for the Teeny Peenie Trumpholes