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From: pedophiles@target.com
On 31 Aug 2021, Iobaties posted some
news:sgm448$7m0$10@news.dns-netz.com:
> Lee wrote
>
>> Target has always been an arrogant faggot promoting pedophile
>> business. The best thing that could happen is some of their employees
>> do get killed and the chain sued. There is a price for being woke
>> and meddling in social affairs. Target needs to learn that lesson.
Target is removing some merchandise celebrating Pride Month from store
shelves after facing a backlash against the products, including threats
against the safety of its workers.
The retail giant said in a statement posted on its website Wednesday that
it was committed to celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community but was withdrawing
some items over threats that were "impacting our team members' sense of
safety and well-being" on the job.
"Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our
plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most
significant confrontational behavior," the company said.
Pride Month takes place in June, though some of the items were already on
sale.
Target did not reply to a series of follow-up questions from NPR, such as
which items were removed and whether it was increasing security at its
stores.
Reuters reported that the company is removing from stores and its website
products created by the LGBTQ brand Abprallen, which offers some products
featuring spooky, gothic imagery, such as skulls and Satan, in pastels
colors.
Conservative activists and media have also bashed Target in recent days
for selling "tuck-friendly" women's swimsuits that allow some trans women
to hide their genitalia, the Associated Press reported.
Target has only been selling tuck-friendly swimsuits made for adults — and
not, contrary to false online rumors, for kids or in kid sizes, the AP
also found.
Those swimsuits are among a group of products under review by Target but
that haven't yet been removed, Reuters said.
In addition to public criticisms of the company, video has also emerged on
social media of people throwing Pride displays to the floor in a Target
store.
"Extremist groups want to divide us and ultimately don't just want rainbow
products to disappear, they want us to disappear," Kelley Robinson,
president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a tweet.
"The LGBTQ+ community has celebrated Pride with Target for the past
decade. Target needs to stand with us and double-down on their commitment
to us," she added.
Michael Edison Hayden, a senior investigative reporter and spokesperson
for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that
tracks hate crimes, told NPR that Target's reversal would only serve to
encourage more violent threats.
"If [Target is] going to wade in on this, and they're going to put support
out there for the LGBTQ+ population, I think once they enter that fray
they have a responsibility to stand by that community," he said. "As soon
as you back down like this, you send a message that intimidation works,
and that makes it much scarier than if you had never started to begin
with."
Target is the latest company to face criticism and boycott threats over
products aimed at supporting the LGBTQ+ community.
Bud Light faced a major social media backlash and saw sales dip after
Anheuser-Busch ran an ad campaign featuring popular trans influencer Dylan
Mulvaney.
Earlier this month, Target CEO Brian Cornell said in an interview with
Fortune's Leadership Next podcast that the company wants to support "all
families" and that its "focus on diversity and inclusion and equity has
fueled much of our growth over the last nine years."
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