We’ve hit the point where elected government employees are demanding that a private company carries certain products and where to place them, and in a threatening manner since they are attorney generals
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison warns Target about their ‘obligations’ to the LGBTQ community
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, D., wrote a letter to Target warning that their decision to pull Pride merchandise from certain stores encourages bullying and will embolden “hateful” methods.
Ellison co-led an open letter of 15 AGs expressing their concerns over Target pulling products in response to consumer outrage, and said they could use civil rights law to defend the corporate giant.
Target faced backlash over their Pride Month displays with rainbow and LGBTQ+ messaging that included new products like female-style swimsuits that can be used to “tuck” male genitalia.
Target also notably pulled items from “Satanic” designer Erik Carnell’s brand Abprallen with messages such as “cure transphobia not trans people.” While they were reportedly not included in Target’s Pride collection, Abprallen has distributed apparel that includes satanic imagery including pentagrams, horned skulls, and references to the devil. One design found on the apparel maker’s t-shirts and pins has the message: “Satan respects pronouns.”
And consumers were the ones who were against these products. No one would have cared if it was some base level stuff aimed at gays and lesbians. The “tuck” crap aimed at children lit the fuse
The letter warned that there are many “politically motivated attacks” targeting “LGBTQIA+ Americans” such as limiting so-called, “gender-affirming care,” a euphemism for minors undergoing genitalia altering surgeries and drugs affecting hormone levels. It also stated these communities are being targeted by lawmakers who are “prohibiting transgender individuals from using bathrooms or playing on sports teams aligned with their gender identity” and “restricting drag performances.”
The letter claimed consumers who object to Target’s recent transgenderism-related products “do not represent” American society as a whole.
Based on the drop in sales, I’m betting way more Americans are against grooming/insane products at Target than those who support it.
“While we understand the basis for this action, we are also concerned it sends a message that those who engage in hateful and disruptive conduct can cause even large corporations to succumb to their bullying, and that they have the power to determine when LGBTQIA+ consumers will feel comfortable in Target stores — or anywhere in society,” the AGs wrote. “Though we do not doubt Target’s longstanding commitment to LGBTQIA+ equality, and though we laud your intention to keep your staff members and customers safe, we fear your choice to pull Pride merchandise demonstrates that intentional violence and intimidation can set back the march for social progress and LGBTQIA+ equality, which as we have noted is already under intense attack nationwide.”
The letter closed with noting that existing civil rights law not only protects people from discrimination, but also demands “obligations” from corporations.
That seems like a threat when it is originating from a state attorney general, does it not? Especially in states which are far left and/or have far left AGs (Minnesota, Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, NJ, NY, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Arizona, and D.C.). “Comply or something bad will happen.”
Do Republican state AGs ever issue threats/suits? LOL.
LOL? What the fuk is funny about that? Have they threatened to sue because ta company made a free choice not to place an item in a certain spot or caryy it at all?> Since when do AGs get to decide marketing? LOL
This country is turning into a fascist state, LOL
LOL.
We agree that Republican reactionaries (MAGATs, Freedom Cockus) are trying to turn America into a fascist state. And that is NO laughing matter. With you guys, it’s always PROJECTION!!
BTW, super-suer Ken Paxton was impeached by TX Republicans this year : Relying heavily on the allegations of impropriety detailed by whistleblowers, the Texas House voted overwhelmingly on May 27 to impeach Paxton, setting up a future trial in the Texas Senate.
Here’s the letter sent by the black Muslim AG and signed by 14 other AGs.
The AGs promise to support Target in resisting threats against the stores, employees and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Dear Elwood:
You disgust me.
Jim,
I have no significant feelings about you one way or another.
But what frustrates you most about this Target brouhaha?
Dear Elwood:
Please take it personally.
i see the dem ag’s are worried about their campaign contributions from the gays and transvestites.
Speaking of reckless Republican AGs…
Last year TX (Ken Paxton, again) and LA AGs had sued to overturn Biden immigration policies and a TX judge agreed, but…
So the hyper-leftist, liberal, RINO, Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration!!! Only “patriotic” justice Alito did the right thing.
What do far-right reactionaries have if they don’t have the Supremes? Does someone need to pull the trigger??
Who do you want to murder now? Alito?
What “obligations” does a privately owned or any company have towards supporting the LGBTQWTF?
Spell it out.
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from the AG letter (was not a suit):
Even AGs have First Amendment rights! So far.
Funny. Rimjob can’t seem to provide an answer to the question either.
BTW, how many queers do you employ there at Galera?
#ObligationsYo
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You may not know this since it’s highly unlikely you’ve ever hired anyone, but sexual preference is not a criterion for hiring. Do you imagine that hiring managers preferentially hire LGBTQ individuals??
I’ve worked with several openly gay and lesbian workers, and one transgendered woman (a pathologist), with no incidents or problems. Of course, it might have been many more since there’s little reason to discuss one’s private sex life at work.
At a start-up in 2006, I hired an openly lesbian scientist whom I had worked with at the then largest pharma company on Earth. She had three children.
I worked at a warehouse through college (early 70s) and one driver there was said to be gay but no one seemed to mind much. This place was a blue collar as imaginable and the day foreman was a Marine.
Rimjob again deflects from giving a straight answer.
Anyway, how did you know they were queer or tranny?
#PedoPervRimjobWorksWithPervs
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Deepthroat once again just making scheisse up. LOL.
He’s quite the queer little feller! He can’t even ask a ‘straight’ question.
What does “openly” mean to you?
Sorry Rimjob, now we can see why you were so easily confused.
Coulda fooled anyone.
#PedoRimjibSoUptight
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Oh my! So sorry to add more confusion 5o your life, chubby.
https://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2-1.jpeg
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DeepThroat is so busy finding photos of trans women that he can’t answer questions.
#FluffyIsObssessedWithTGirls!!
Unlike you, chubby, some of us don’t hover over a keyboard waiting to insult others all day long.
#PervRimjobLikesToWankAndHover
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DeepThroat actually typed: some of us don’t hover over a keyboard waiting to insult others all day long
That’s your best one evuh!! You were being self-deprecatingly ironic, right?
OK. Buh-bye.
Wonder who those AGs will sue over this.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/23/starbucks-union-says-workers-will-strike-over-pride-decor.html
#ObligationsAndShit
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Everything the queers and trannies do in the work place to discuss or promote their sex lives is harassment and they and all their co-travelers should be fired and fined.
#SexualHarassmentYo
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“Scientists at Bud Light working on Time Machine that goes back about 6 months..”
Dear Elwood:
Please take it personally.