Target is basically a shell corporation for Big Transgender.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Target's debut of pro-transgender clothing lines aimed at children, it has since been revealed that one of the senior executives in the company's marketing department also holds a position with a pro-transgender advocacy group.
According to Fox News, the vice president of brand marketing for Target, Carlos Saavedra, is also a treasurer for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN has pushed for schools across the country to enact policies that forbid parents from being made aware of their childrens' gender identities at school, as well as pushing schools to include explicitly sexual books in their libraries.
GLSEN has written out its preferred policy for schools' treatment of the parents of students, declaring that "[the local education agency] shall ensure that all personally identifiable and medical information relating to transgender and nonbinary students is kept confidential."
"Staff or educators shall not disclose any information that may reveal a student's gender identity to others, including parents or guardian," the policy continues. "This disclosure must be discussed with the student, prior to any action."
GLSEN is also Target's partner for the pride month campaign, where the company and other corporations throughout the United States celebrate homosexuality, transgenderism, and other forms of sexual degeneracy. Target donates to GLSEN every year, with the most recent one being roughly $2.1 million.
In a statement, Target reaffirmed its support for GLSEN, declaring that the group..
"leads the movement in creating affirming... and anti-racist spaces for LGBTQIA+ students. We are proud of 10+ years of collaboration with GLSEN and continue to support their mission."
Doc_Zero/John Hayward says we must not stop our boycott of Target until they enact a program of full Debaathification of their woke psychopaths.
John Hayward
@Doc_0
May 24
I've been shopping at Target forever, but I can't go in there anymore. The moral hazard has become too great. I won't tell the kids of the future that I was unwilling to change my shopping habits to stand up for them. I won't be part of the deranged extremism Target is pushing.
I don't think anyone should be mollified by little symbolic concessions Target makes in a desperate bid to avoid getting Bud Lighted. The extremists are still in control of the company. No heads have rolled. The company is signaling the fascists that its heart is still with them.
Nothing less than complete de-wokification should be accepted by disgusted consumers: executives named and fired, apologies given, enraged woke boycotts that fizzle because there just aren't that many of them. You'll know a company means it when the Woke howl with outrage.
If companies want to be run by tiny bands of extremist lunatics, then let that be their customer base. Let competitors step in to pick up the customer base they've chosen to abandon. We'll compare balance sheets at year-end and see which is the wiser business model.
The people unhappy with this corporate fascism aren't even demanding their own values or politics be pushed by the companies, although that WILL start happening if this crap continues. People just want to shop without getting blasted by one-sided totalitarian political messaging.
It's not that hard to provide such an experience, so competitors will step forward to do it... unless the heavy hand of government thumps down to stop them. That's the other end of the deal with fascism: private capital pushes Party ideology, and is favored by the Party in turn.
That should be part of every GOP presidential campaign. Don't just tell people you sympathize with their disgust for totalitarian politics. Show them how government power and money are pushing this fascism, and vow to ruthlessly dismantle those mechanisms.
The New Fascism isn't just a matter of a few left-wing operatives carefully working their way into corporate hierarchies over the years. Government power and coercive force are involved. Isolate it and promise to put a stop to it. Lead a charge instead of just complaining.
Bring it all out into the open, both during your campaign and once you're in the White House. Use everything, from the bully pulpit to administrative power - and make sure you have reliable people running the bureaucracy when you go to war against totalitarianism.
For the rest of us, this doesn't even feel like "boycotting" anymore. The Bud Light thing didn't really have that vibe. It's more like a turning away, a resistance if you will - a real one, not shrieking ninnies LARPing as a resistance. There is a quiet determination about it.
You don't really see boycott leaders making demands. Nobody really expects corporations captured by woke fascism to make real changes to placate customers they obviously hold in contempt. These brands are becoming laughingstocks - and the Left fears humor above all.
People might feel they're surrounded, that every Big Business is fusing with Big Government and its ruling totalitarian Party, and there's nowhere they can go to escape. You just get to pick the least politically obnoxious mega-corp to do business with at any given moment.
That's always how totalitarians WANT you to feel. The whole point is to make the majority feel like a helpless minority, surrounded at every turn by apparatchiks, informants, political officers, and mandatory re-education. You're afraid to look for like-minded allies.
One thing you can be certain of when you face a totalitarian enemy: you ARE the majority. They wouldn't be using those tactics if they didn't know their ideology was alien and repulsive to most people. They live in constant fear that the majority will awaken and flex its muscles.
What you need to make this more than a constant twilight struggle against totalitarian adversaries is effective political representation. You need people who understand what's happening and will dismantle the coercive mechanisms that turn totalitarianism into fascism.
It will take a bit of social engineering to get us back to the point where we aren't being socially engineered every time we buy a can of beer. It will take skilled and aggressive use of administrative power to dismantle the Administrative State, to pry Big Gov and Big Biz apart.
That's what I'm looking for in the 2024 primaries. Meanwhile, we ought to vote against fascism with our dollars, those marvelous little green ballots we get to cast every day. If the companies want to throw off fascism and win us back, they know where to find us. /end
Meanwhile, an actress I never heard of says she's staging her own boycott of Target, until they display their trans-for-children offerings even more prominently:
From Fox News:
"I just walked into Target and where you see all these lovely swimsuits, that's where the Pride display used to be. I came in here two days ago and my 7-year-old, who's nonbinary, saw it and said, 'Look, Mom, it's pride Look, they're going to celebrate me,'" an emotional Lefevre said on Instagram.
"I can't bring them here anymore, at least for the entire month of June, because if they walk in, and all the other people who walk in and go, 'Where'd it go?' are going to realize that they are being successful in trying to erase them."
"We can do much better than this. We're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists," she added.
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In a follow-up video posted on Instagram, Lefevre said she received "hurtful, disgusting" comments after revealing she will no longer bring her child to Target, but is choosing to "know how much pain" her critics are in instead of clapping back.
"I know the kind of hate you have to put inside you to numb the hurt,' she said. "So instead of hating back, I just choose to know how much pain you're in."
As mentioned earlier, MSNBC had on a very Sexually-Diverse seeming individual to explain that boycotting target was "economic terrorism -- I mean literal terrorism."
Ooof. This is even worse than a boycott: