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Target's move to pull some Pride merchandise is 'wrong', New York AG says

Published 06/14/2023, 01:22 PM
Updated 06/14/2023, 04:52 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Target shopping cart is seen in front of a store logo in Azusa, California, U.S. November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
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(Reuters) -Target's move to pull some LGBTQ-themed merchandise from stores following customer backlash "is wrong," New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a tweet on Tuesday and urged the retailer to reverse its decision.

At least 14 New York officials have signed a letter regarding Target (NYSE:TGT)'s decision, according to James's tweet.

Target said last month it was making certain "adjustments" to its LGBTQ-themed products linked to Pride Month, citing increased confrontations between shoppers and employees and incidents of products being thrown on the floor.

The company has sold LGBTQ-related goods tied to Pride month for years but has faced growing criticism for carrying those products, including from conservative news outlets and Republican politicians, who have claimed certain items at its stores were marketed to children.

Target on Wednesday reiterated a statement it had shared last month, saying it has "experienced threats" impacting employees' sense of safety while at work.

A similar backlash has impacted other companies. Department store chain Kohl's (NYSE:KSS) faced criticism for carrying Pride-related products.

Brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev's Bud Light lost its top spot in the U.S. beer market after it was boycotted following the company's partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

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I love Benjamin's projection. The democrat party is literally the party of communists. Communism is leftist economics. Communism would be what leftists are doing, which is trying to force companies to carry certain products against their will and give no other choice. The right is simply exercising their capitalistic right to have selection of where to shop and to shop elsewhere. It is also worth noting that the terrorists are literally on the left. Target has been receiving several bomb threats, but they were form leftists demanding that they put the pedo merch back in the front of the stores. Groomers cannot help their pedo tendencies, the democrat party is truly the party of pedos.
This will trigger the MAGA communist snowflakes and terro/.ists who want to dictate what stores should sell and control their speech all through threat of violence.
In real news, Target has received many bomb threats recently, not from ring-wing but from left-wing terrorists demanding that the continue selling the pedo merch to minors. Imagine being a democrat and having to pretend to support this nonsense. The democrat party is truly the party of pedophiles, even Joe Biden's daughter wrote that he showered with her as a teenager.
The attorney general should open his own store instead of telling other people what they should do with theirs. He may not be so quick to spout his “woke” views when it is his own money on the line
Target's reaction was like putting the genie back in the bottle and leaving the bottle uncorked 🙄
The pedophiles of the democrat party might not understand this, but there is a difference between "pride" merchandise and targeting children. Target put up pride displays targeting children and children merchandise.  Bud used a T.ikT.ok man who dresses and acts like a 12-year-old girl to try and sell their beer. Trying to pretend like Walmart is doing the same thing is nonsense. The end goal of leftism is to permit pedophilia. There is a reason that academic leftists are already trying to normalize the term MAP, which stands for minor attracted person. It is also worth noting that "Pride" is literally one of the 7 deadly sins.
So offering a rainbow shirt for parents to purchase is targeting children? What do you think about Wal-Mart stating they will continue to sell pride merchandise and won't give in to bullies. Much ado about nothing. Both retailers have sold pride merchandise for years.
 Nice attempt at gaslighting, you prove what I said is exactly correct. Pedophiles such as yourself may not understand the difference, though.
Go woke go broke. No more playing around as you pedophiles have gone full pedo in recent years, not even hiding what you are doing to children. You sickos have gone too far and we are not going to put up with it. You all even elected Biden, whose own daughter wrote in her diary that she was sexualized at a young age and Joe showered with her as a teenager.
What is the NY AG doing commenting on a privste companies choice of merchadise or marketing?
Much easier to do than punish non lgbtq criminals
Democrat pedophiles are not even trying to hide their pedo goals anymore.
Democrat pedophiles let their desire for children interfere with their ability to to work without talking about their desire for children.
Ok but Just do not put them in children area and do not sale those products for children targeting children. Let children be children
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