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Target is being held hostage by an anti-LGBTQ campaign
CNN Business ^ | 5/25/23 | Nathaniel Meyerson

Posted on 05/25/2023 1:05:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff

During every Pride Month in June for the past decade, Target has sold merchandise for LGBTQ customers, employees and allies. But this year, Target faced an anti-LGBTQ campaign that went viral on social media.

Fueled by far-right personalities and on social media platforms, the anti-trans campaign spread misleading information about the company’s Pride Month products and its business practices.

Hurting brands’ sales and reputations was the stated goal of the campaign: “The goal is to make ‘pride’ toxic for brands,” said right-wing commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter. “If they decide to shove this garbage in our face, they should know that they’ll pay a price. It won’t be worth whatever they think they’ll gain.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cnn; leftisthysteria; target
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To: DallasBiff
I have been boycotting Target since this ad came out years ago:


21 posted on 05/25/2023 1:28:15 PM PDT by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: blackdog

Held hostage? Is that like what was done to North Carolina by PEO-LGBTQ people a few years ago?


22 posted on 05/25/2023 1:30:32 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: DallasBiff

CNN probably thinks all the viewers who abandoned them - because they suck - are holding them “hostage.”

Whenever lefties fail - because they suck - is because they victimize themselves and demonize people who don’t suck.


23 posted on 05/25/2023 1:30:32 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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Leftwing corporate commiseration.

FU, CNN


24 posted on 05/25/2023 1:32:01 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DallasBiff

As soon as target stops welcoming grown men into the little girls’ bathroom, we may return to patronizing the store again

Otherwise who needs it?


25 posted on 05/25/2023 1:33:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: DallasBiff

CNN playing typical crybully.

It’s like the machete wielding professor — Whitey made me do it! Sitting there peacefully advocating a position is violence!


26 posted on 05/25/2023 1:35:28 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: DallasBiff

Nathaniel Meyerson is a fool. Target can sell or not sell whatever they want.

It’s a free country.

Also WE can buy or not buy Target’s merchandise... because IT’S A FREE COUNTRY.

Does Nathaniel Meyerson want to pass a law forcing citizens to buy at Target? Is that his solution?

And as far as ‘death threats are concerned - those are the newest form of ‘fake hate crimes’... Grievance pity party groups use ‘fake death threats as a way to gather more pity for themselves... it’s a common left wing tactic. They call in the threats themselves.


27 posted on 05/25/2023 1:37:21 PM PDT by GOPJ (American companies: YOUR Ad Agency needs to look like America NOT like a San Francisco Gay bathhouse)
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To: Tell It Right

“... I remember when the LGBTQWERTY lobby promised us it wasn’t about the kids.”

I don’t remember them making any promises. I do remember them deflecting with the old “that’s a slippery slope fallacy!” argument any time someone brought it up.


28 posted on 05/25/2023 1:37:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: DallasBiff

Target is being held hostage by an LGBTQ campaign

there, fixed it.


29 posted on 05/25/2023 1:38:31 PM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: Demiurge2

No.


30 posted on 05/25/2023 1:39:37 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: DallasBiff

Target went overboard this year, it was a rub your nose in it campaign and so- volley not hostage.

Capitalism, you silly man.


31 posted on 05/25/2023 1:40:34 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: DallasBiff

I can’t really help you. I was boycotting Target since the early 1990s when they sponsored pro-abortion groups, never mind the 2000s when they allowed pervs to go into girls dressing rooms. Target has been evil for a long time.


32 posted on 05/25/2023 1:41:10 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Held hostage” means the left doesn’t like it when people vote with their wallets.


33 posted on 05/25/2023 1:41:32 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: DallasBiff

It seems odd that the alphabet denizens weep, wail, and whine about tactics they use daily.


34 posted on 05/25/2023 2:00:30 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: DallasBiff

“Far Right” is another term for “Sane”.


35 posted on 05/25/2023 2:10:28 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff

36 posted on 05/25/2023 2:14:07 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: DallasBiff

Staying neutral and not showing the LGBT agenda in the faces of customers is the equivalent of being held hostage?


37 posted on 05/25/2023 2:14:39 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: NorthMountain

Indeed.


38 posted on 05/25/2023 2:14:50 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

I guess “Hostage” is the left’s new buzzword. The Republicans are holding the country “Hostage” in the debt ceiling negotiations. If you refuse to patronize a business because you disagree with their promotion of the LGBT agenda, you are holding that company “Hostage.”


39 posted on 05/25/2023 2:15:23 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: DallasBiff

More like captives of their own stupidity.


40 posted on 05/25/2023 2:15:39 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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