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Professor labels Target boycotters ‘domestic terrorists’
American Thinker ^ | 7 Jun, 2023 | Eric Utter

Posted on 06/07/2023 5:38:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

LGBTQ organizations can threaten and make demands, but no others can? Ah, I see.

A University of Michigan professor referred to boycotts, and other threats against ultra-woke big-box retailer Target as a form of literal terrorism in a recent interview on MSNBC. The retail giant recently shed more than $9 billion in market value since it rolled out an extensive LGBTQ Pride collection of apparel and accessories, some aimed at toddlers and babies. After it was revealed that the stores sold LGBTQ-themed onesies for babies, children's books advocating for drag queen shows, and "tuck-friendly" bathing suits, the Minneapolis-based retailer’s value dropped 12% in just one week. It didn’t help that it turned out a few of the items were designed by an avowed Satanist.

Nonetheless, the pushback against Target’s assault on the sensibilities of a great many of its customers prompted Justin Wolfers, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan, to appear on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” and state:

"One of two things are true. It could be [Target] are cowards and they use that as protection and a smokescreen so they could make a cowardly decision, or it could be that they are actually genuinely concerned about the well-being of their employees and they have had credible threats. If that is the case, when Target caves into this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation, you get to control its policies. This is economic terrorism, literally terrorism, creating fear among the workers and forcing the corporations to sell the things you want, not sell the things you don't."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; leftism; target
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To: MtnClimber

Our free speech is violence. Their violence is free speech.

Got it?

See my tag line.

L


21 posted on 06/07/2023 6:14:13 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MtnClimber
One of two things are is true.

A professor who does not know the difference between singular and plural...

22 posted on 06/07/2023 6:19:42 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Made In The USA

Correct. They’re grooming an entire generation of children to turn against their own civilization. One can easily see that dystopian future, where such children, as young adults, are enlisted to strike out at we “terrorists”. Happening already, actually.


23 posted on 06/07/2023 6:39:07 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Jewbacca

Well, they’re certainly good at dishing it out…


24 posted on 06/07/2023 6:44:13 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Or what about the folks who boycott Disney?!


25 posted on 06/07/2023 6:52:29 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Made In The USA

Along with racist and fascist.


26 posted on 06/07/2023 6:52:54 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Made In The USA

label lost meaning once the childish left began to use it for anything they dislike.

And here I thought a domestic terrorist was someone in the kitchen threatening with a hand held frying pan.


27 posted on 06/07/2023 6:59:30 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so.)
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To: MtnClimber

“”One of two things are true. It could be [Target] are cowards and they use that as protection and a smokescreen so they could make a cowardly decision, or it could be that they are actually genuinely concerned about the well-being of their employees and they have had credible threats. If that is the case, when Target caves into this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation, you get to control its policies. This is economic terrorism, literally terrorism, creating fear among the workers and forcing the corporations to sell the things you want, not sell the things you don’t.””

Projection. This is exactly what leftist and homosexual activists have done to private business.


28 posted on 06/07/2023 7:02:25 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: MtnClimber

OK, groomer.


29 posted on 06/07/2023 7:20:41 AM PDT by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: MtnClimber

BUT democrat party terror groups burning, looting, and destroying any business not on their approved list is just fine.


30 posted on 06/07/2023 7:22:02 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, maybe we should peacefully protest by burning down a few towns and beating some old white folks.


31 posted on 06/07/2023 7:37:28 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: MtnClimber

If you want to see a Marxist professor explode and go psychotic, call him a Nazi. Works every time. And when he starts wildly gesturing with his spaghetti arms, accuse him of giving Nazi salutes.


32 posted on 06/07/2023 7:41:15 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: Lurker

Julius Evola and Guillaume Faye are making more sense with every passing day. See my tag line as well.


33 posted on 06/07/2023 7:45:29 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Made In The USA

They have the Orwellian goal to twist the language to eliminate any means of criticizing the Party, or or praising its enemies. If you can’t speak it, you can’t think it, so the theory goes.


34 posted on 06/07/2023 7:53:24 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: sergeantdave

I can picture it.


35 posted on 06/07/2023 8:10:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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