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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: Drawsing

If they were in the Middle East, they would have been thrown off of a tall building by now.


41 posted on 05/25/2023 2:16:01 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

Hostage?

About time someone stood up to these virtue-signallers and the sick twisted people they ENABLE.

Seems to me Target/etal are being held hostage, and in turn holding ALL of us many normal people hostage to their preferences.

Well, let’s show our preference and walk out.


42 posted on 05/25/2023 2:17:43 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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To: DallasBiff

“Hurting brands’ sales and reputations was the stated goal of the campaign:”

Isn’t that what commie leftists love?

That “corporations” are naturally evil? Because they want money?

These people are twisting themselves in knots trying to justify and rationalize everything.


43 posted on 05/25/2023 2:19:30 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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To: DallasBiff

Nathaniel Meyerson probably has fantasies about being held hostage in various situations, hoping Prince Charming will rescue him and carry him off to a castle in the sky. So claiming somebody or something else is not a stretch, just a lazy extension of his daydreams.


44 posted on 05/25/2023 2:36:49 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Sicon

Gurgle?

(ask Rev Sharpton)


45 posted on 05/25/2023 2:39:14 PM PDT by hattend (F U Pedo Joe.)
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To: Demiurge2

No. Not really. They never did. It just wasn’t as obvious before.


46 posted on 05/25/2023 2:47:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff
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.

Get outta here with that “far right” B.S., CNN.

The reason there’s a backlash on the LGBTQLMNOPXYZ crap now is because those factions have recently stepped up their agenda, flinging it in our faces non-stop and doubling down on preying on innocent children.

47 posted on 05/25/2023 2:51:46 PM PDT by Allegra (Free Kiryandil! )
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To: Zathras

Keep destroying target, ab, walmart, bk, ford, disney and every other woke company. Then destroy the woke companies that come after.


48 posted on 05/25/2023 2:52:15 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: DallasBiff

Remember fools, the customer is always right, even if you disagree.


49 posted on 05/25/2023 3:06:43 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: DallasBiff

Target stock price -3% yesterday bud cap value -16 billion smells like winning


50 posted on 05/25/2023 3:21:09 PM PDT by genghis (Cathinkngact only reason go after e puthan 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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To: DallasBiff
And CNN's primetime audience is half what it was 2 years ago.I wonder why.
51 posted on 05/25/2023 3:22:38 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: Demiurge2
"Remember when CNN did journalism?

Not really.

And I remember them back to the 'First Gulf War'--1990, when I first became aware of them...

I thought at the time that they were doing news, but looking back with what I know now, they were doing deep state propaganda even then.

52 posted on 05/25/2023 3:42:45 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: DallasBiff

These stories have been coming out all day long on every network and channel. Target is eliciting liberal tears and anguish. It’s worked for them before.


53 posted on 05/25/2023 3:48:25 PM PDT by jean michael
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To: DallasBiff

The only reason I go to Target is to go into the women’s restroom and leave all the toilet seats up.


54 posted on 05/25/2023 3:54:07 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: DallasBiff

We’re against the grooming of children. If Target put sex toys out prominently, there would also be a backlash. There’s a time and place for that, but not in a family-friendly department store.


55 posted on 05/25/2023 4:07:31 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Zathras

They will pay any price to receive the approval of demonic forces. They believe they fight for freedom and dignity. They do not. They are the deluded minions of oppression.


56 posted on 05/25/2023 4:12:25 PM PDT by Lou Foxwell (It takes a deep level of stupidity to believe Trump is stupid.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Fictitious “DEI scores” are what’s holding corporations hostage, not consumers.
Sane Consumers are more than happy to help the companies who subscribe to the Tranny-insanity die.


57 posted on 05/25/2023 4:56:38 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: DallasBiff

So refusing to do business with a company that rejects your values, actively promotes the opposite ones, and throws it in your face, is somehow “holding them hostage”???

Waht this really means is that it’s working, and the libs find that unacceptable.


58 posted on 05/25/2023 9:28:23 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

The libs want everthing to do with “Free South Africa”....

...and everything to do with FREAK southern aka REAL America!


59 posted on 05/25/2023 9:41:56 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: DallasBiff

Wearing the “queer gear” they sell is an “in your face” launched against Normals.


60 posted on 05/26/2023 2:58:03 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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