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Target Stores Hit With Bomb Threat After 'Turning Its Back' On LGBTQ+ Community
Nation and State ^ | 05/28/2023 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 05/28/2023 9:10:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

At least five Targets in multiple states received bomb threats Friday over company executives pulling the Pride collection section because of mounting boycotts, leading to multiple stores being evacuated as police and the FBI searched for explosive devices.

"Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store," reads a threatening email sent to several Target locations in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania, Cleveland 19 News reports.

"We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down. We are sending you a message, we placed a bomb in the following Targets. We will continue to bomb your Targets until you stop cowering and bring back your LBGT merchandise. "

One shopper told 19 News, "I know a lot of people around here are not a fan of LGBT that kind of stuff me personally I mean it's whatever. I never thought someone would go as far as a bomb threat."

In Utah, local media outlet KUTV said, "Bomb threats were made to Target stores in Layton, Salt Lake, Taylorsville, and Provo."

On Thursday, one day before the bomb threat was made, we reported a Fox News insider confirmed Target stores across the South and rural America removed controversial LGBT-themed products ahead of June Pride month to avoid further backlash. Some products ranged from "tuck-friendly" swimsuits for transgender people to gender-fluid coffee mugs. The insider said the reasoning behind such an abrupt move is "to avoid the kind of backlash Bud Light has received in recent weeks."

As we noted last week...

Corporations have freedom of speech under the First Amendment but have to understand if their political ideologies don't align with customers, then the people also have freedom of speech to voice their opinion. That's why corporations should probably stay out of identity politics or risk pissing off both sides, because what Target did by moving pride products to the back and scaling down the section will likely spark outrage in the trans community.

And the Target bomb threat comes after California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a diehard progressive, tweeted, "CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage."

"This isn't just a couple of stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country," Newsom said.

CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage.

This isn’t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country.

Wake up America.

This doesn’t stop here.… https://t.co/1vRgukaT0g — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 24, 2023

Did Newsom's tweet incite the radical left's attack on Target?

And congrats to Target's executives who have managed to anger conservatives and progressives.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; bidensbrownshirts; bombthreat; boycott; clothing; domesticterrorism; justanidea; lgbtq; target; tran; trans; transgender; transterrorism; whatdidwrayknow
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To: SeekAndFind

Perverts used to want “tolerance.” Now they want everyone to fully embrace and love their twisted perversion or die.

They are sick and dangerous.


21 posted on 05/28/2023 11:03:42 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Angelino97
FBI won’t classify this as terrorism or a hate crime. Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.

The FBI probably won’t classify it as anything.

22 posted on 05/28/2023 11:37:10 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Angelino97

The FBI is so corrupt they are running around in circles.


23 posted on 05/28/2023 11:54:37 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: Angelino97
FBI won’t classify this as terrorism or a hate crime.

4200 Kent Rd, Stow, OH 44224 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
5584 Dressler Rd NW, North Canton, OH 44720 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
417 Boardman Poland Rd, Boardman, OH 44512 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
5555 Youngstown Warren Rd, Niles, OH 44446 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
87 Wagner Rd, Monaca, PA 15061 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
815 W 2000 N, Layton, UT 84041 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
5800 S Redwood Rd, Taylorsville, UT 84123 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
1290 N State St, Provo, UT 84604 - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.
Two Target stores in Salt Lake City, UT - Simply an isolated incident of mental illness.

24 posted on 05/29/2023 12:42:56 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Memorial Day: All gave some, and some gave all. )
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To: SeekAndFind

A proof positive that people who don’t know their own gender are feebleminded and dangerous to themselves and others and think only of themselves. Narcissistic personality disorder big time.


25 posted on 05/29/2023 1:02:10 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Noumenon

And the fbi will know exactly who sent in the bomb threat and will do nothing.

Very glad it is target being hit from both sides.


26 posted on 05/29/2023 2:11:50 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Noumenon

so, maybe this was the reason why target put that stuff in their stores in the first place. This LGBT community activist organization is VIOLENT and threatened them with it if they did not comply. Their compliance was not complete and they are going to be made to pay a price. The Gay Mafia was not bluffing.


27 posted on 05/29/2023 2:57:52 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Crazy is as Crazy does... I give you: LGBTQWTF...


28 posted on 05/29/2023 3:21:51 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The media will report the threats as coming from the normal humans.


29 posted on 05/29/2023 4:26:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The democrat party is the most subversive and harmful institution on the planet. Tied with media.)
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To: SeekAndFind
If, by some miracle, Trump (or another GOPer) wins in 2024, these leftwingers will become very violent. American society will become a smoldering cauldron of destruction and murder, far worse than anything any living person has ever seen.

Prepare accordingly.
30 posted on 05/29/2023 5:07:15 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: SeekAndFind

Target was the first store to allow men in restrooms and dressing rooms with your wives, daughters and mothers. We already know what they do to your sons.
Yet, I know plent of Christians who shop at target. They wouldn’t lower themselves to shop at Walmart.


31 posted on 05/29/2023 5:09:55 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: 50sDad
There have been transvestites in history. It's not new by any means.

What is new is the ability to surgically change the parts up.

IIRC they were doing some of this type of surgery in Germany prior to the Nazis taking over.

Renee Richards is the first surgical case I can recall here in the US.

32 posted on 05/29/2023 5:54:27 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

“We won’t stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down.”

So much easier to claim victim status than to recognize that they’re not being hunted, their demonic, stupid, arrogant choices are being rejected.


33 posted on 05/29/2023 6:12:38 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

It should be obvious by now that businesses do themselves no favor by getting involved in divisive politics.


34 posted on 05/29/2023 7:36:04 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: SeekAndFind

and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots,
*********-——
That list pretty much describes anybody who isn’t lbjkatr.. whatever

About 95% of the human population. Maybe more.

People like their own ways and they don’t like being forced into ways which aren’t their own. Race doesn’t matter. Its simply human.


35 posted on 05/29/2023 8:32:45 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Noumenon

We Boycott—They BOMB STORES.


36 posted on 05/29/2023 8:38:06 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah, but let’s not label this ‘domestic terror’, as it doesn’t come from the RIGHT.

/s

Bastages.


37 posted on 05/29/2023 8:48:46 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: CatOwner

Did it occur at night?

/s


38 posted on 05/29/2023 8:49:13 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s pretty easy to make a real bomb.


39 posted on 05/29/2023 8:53:09 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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