Target removes some LGBTQ+ items after threats to workers ahead of Pride month

[ozso]

Most likely something along the lines of "If you don't remove these items, I'll never shop here again!" (No doubt seen as a terroristic threat if uttered by a conservative)

Which is probably why I haven't been able to find the wording of said threats.

 

[USincognito]

Most likely something along the lines of "If you don't remove these items, I'll never shop here again!" (No doubt seen as a terroristic threat if uttered by a conservative)

So you're saying that no conservative has ever called in a terroristic threat or sent a terroristic email?

 

[USincognito]

I've been looking around for what these threats to Target employees have been, and so for I haven't found any examples.

Interesting.

Here's an article about one and video of a guy stomping on a display

And here's a guy threatening with a gun on TikTok

 

[essentialsaltes]

Since Target and gay people are involved, I knew Ethan Schmidt wouldn't be able to resist being a butthat and film himself being a butthat.

Target shopper tears down Pride sign as fury over LGBTQ merch spills into aisles​

The online fury spilling over into the aisles includes one MAGA hat-wearing provocateur who was filmed ripping down a “#TakePride” sign from a clothing rack of LGBTQ apparel.

Ethan Schmidt — a 24-year-old far-right internet personality who previously made headlines for his off-color remarks — is seen tossing the rainbow-colored sign to the floor before stomping on it and kicking it in the 19-second clip.

 

[KCfromNC]

I agree. And quite frankly I don't believe these so called threats. I think Target saw what happened to Bud Lite and decided to try and mitigate it for themselves. Since they haven't removed those things completely I believe a boycott is still warranted. We need to make it loud and clear this is not acceptable.

Cancel culture out in full force, it seems.

 

[ozso]

Interesting.

Here's an article about one and video of a guy stomping on a display

And here's a guy threatening with a gun on TikTok

How did I manage to miss a tweet and a tiktok?

For some reason I was envisoning people actually confronting Target employees in real life.

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

I certainly wouldn't have thought that threatening sales clerks was an appropriate response.

It is not an appropriate response to threaten anyone. Those people in Target are low level employees just doing their jobs.

What is also inappropriate is Pride and satanic stuff for children. Leave the kids alone. Adults can do what they want.

Parents, of course, were the first line of reporting on this, having found the items in the store. "satan loves you" and "satan respects your pronouns" is not going to go over well in the majority of America that is not the far left fringe. Tucking bathing suits mixed in with the Kids' wear (as it was all Pride stuff) is not going to be well-received. People can shop where they want and people can say what they want. (What people cannot do is assault/batter employees - anyone who actually experienced an actual physical attack should call the police).

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

How did I manage to miss a tweet and a tiktok?

For some reason I was invisoning people actually confronting Target employees in real life.

Yeah, Tweets and TikToks are not attacks. They are speech (caveat: cannot dox or call for violence).

 

[USincognito]

How did I manage to miss a tweet and a tiktok?

For some reason I was invisoning people actually confronting Target employees in real life.

You claimed there were no threats going on.
You were provided easily accessible examples of threats going on.
I don't expect Target corp or individual stores to publish actual hate letters and terroristic phone calls. But there's plenty of news reporting on them that is verified by the examples I provided to you.

You're welcome by the way.

 

[ozso]

You claimed there were no threats going on.

You are lying.

I said: I've been looking around for what these threats to Target employees have been, and so for I haven't found any examples.

 

[Aldebaran]

So you're saying that no conservative has ever called in a terroristic threat or sent a terroristic email?

Where did I say that?

 

[Aldebaran]

Since Target and gay people are involved, I knew Ethan Schmidt wouldn't be able to resist being a butthat and film himself being a butthat.

Target shopper tears down Pride sign as fury over LGBTQ merch spills into aisles​

The online fury spilling over into the aisles includes one MAGA hat-wearing provocateur who was filmed ripping down a “#TakePride” sign from a clothing rack of LGBTQ apparel.

Ethan Schmidt — a 24-year-old far-right internet personality who previously made headlines for his off-color remarks — is seen tossing the rainbow-colored sign to the floor before stomping on it and kicking it in the 19-second clip.

If that display had been a person, and the perpetrator was wearing any other hat, this would be reported as a peaceful protest; an understandable display of frustration. "No justice, no peace", and all that.

 

[ozso]

If that display had been a person, and the perpetrator was wearing any other hat, this would be reported as a peaceful protest; an understandable display of frustration.

A MAGA hat and a Trump t-shirt. I'm gonna say it - it looks staged.

 

[Aldebaran]

A MAGA hat and a Trump t-shirt. I'm gonna say it - it looks staged.

That's usually how they do it. Not too difficult to put on a baseball cap that's red and has four specific letters on it before committing acts of vandalism. Reminds me of the Jussie Smollett case.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A MAGA hat and a Trump t-shirt. I'm gonna say it - it looks staged.

This guy is a known rightwing quantity. This is his schtick.

 

[ozso]

This guy is a known rightwing quantity. This is his schtick.

So he was performing staged schtick like I figured.

 

[essentialsaltes]

So he was performing staged schtick like I figured.

Yes, but it's sincere, not manufactured.

 

[ozso]

Yes, but it's sincere, not manufactured.

I went through it all more thoroughly. He's Ethan Schmidt, a public troll who has his antics filmed and then posted on social media. There several known trolls like that who pull various schtick and pranks in public areas.

 

[Chesterton]

I found it. I found the actual evidence. Just look at these violent, evil bigots trashing this Target store.

Oh wait. My bad.

 

[DaisyDay]

I went online to Target to buy some LGBTQ merch to demonstrate my support.