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They just won a case without any standing whatsoever that they can discriminate against lgbtqia+ people. Now they’re trying to make it so that retailers can’t even be welcoming to them.
I also see that the next “then they came for” on their list involves bringing back Satanic Panic.
I was in South Texas a few months ago (not my idea).
At a local H.E.B. There was a rack of Pride merchandise including t-shirts and bumper stickers that said “Y’all includes ‘all’”
They were on clearance so my cynical brain leapt to the conclusion that nobody was buying them. Nooope. They were being destroyed and otherwise vandalized while on the shelf. This was happening so often that the manager decided that it was costing more to keep them on the shelves than the goodwill of the queer community was worth to him.
Wake me up when a corporation does more than the absolute minimum during Pride. Otherwise it’s just more sociopathic virtue signaling from organizations that would happily sell Khmer Rouge branded glasses if they thought it would increase shareholder value.
I was in South Texas a few months ago (not my idea).
I live in South Texas, and know that when I say this to people who have never had a breakfast taco, the most common response is “Like, San Antonio?” So for the interest of clarity, how far south are we talking? Given your story, I’d like to know which community to be wary in if not avoid entirely if possible. (If it doesn’t already confirm one of my guesses.)
More directly in response to your comment, I am aware of the existence of rainbow capitalism. That doesn’t mean Republicans should get a pass for, say, calling in bomb threats to target, which has already happened. Nor should they get a pass for trying to prevent the sale of pride merch.
Republicans believe in a free market until they don’t. It’s the endless hypocrisy that gets me.
Seriously.
The attorneys general also said they believed Target’s Pride campaign threatened their financial interests, writing that Target leadership has a “fiduciary duty to our States as shareholders in the company” and suggesting that company officials “may be negligent” in promoting the campaign since it has negatively affected Target’s stock prices and led to some backlash among customers.
I didn’t realize the government needed to step in if a business makes decisions that hurt their profit. That doesn’t sound like a free market at all.
It’s more insidious than you think. They’re using the “we’ve got a financial interest in how the company performs” argument in the same way they did in the recent Supreme Court case allowing businesses to discriminate against gay people.
As stakeholders, if Target continues to offer LGBTQ+ merchandise for sale, these Attorneys General will argue that the financial losses Target might suffer is enough to sue them, to force them to stop selling that merchandise.
It’s fucking evil. We should not stand for it.
Being a shareholder means having partial ownership of the company, so company owners telling the company what they can’t do sees pretty free-markety to me. Just weird seeing a republican government using their shares as leverage to control companies, but given republicans really never cared about free markets, its not that surprising.
Yeah I should have worded it a little differently. The government being able to buy shares and use them as leverage for political reasons is still not great though.
I’m getting really tired of this timeline.
Make sure you read the letter. It takes about how LGBT stuff is not appropriate for children. Cause you know, being included in society and appreciated for who you are is only for adults, and all kids are born straight and should be raised straight, right?
Imagine being upset about rainbows
So the Supreme Court just ruled that businesses can discriminate against a protected class. Now they are trying to force/scare businesses that don’t, into doing it.
Satanism is another religion whether they like it or not. Anyone can sell satanic shit, you don’t get to claim it’s “anti Christian” when y’all are the ones that invented Satan
They forget that the first amendment doesn’t just apply to their own speech.
They forget that the first amendment doesn’t just apply to their own speech.
They forget that one A LOT.
Welcome to fascism.
They have been emboldened. It is not going to end until they are out of power.
Disclaimer: I’m not advocating murder with this statement, so whatever you take from it is on you.
They won’t stop until they can’t act. Power or not, they have influence and will wield it. The only people who have no influence are dead.
The only people who have no influence are dead.
A true fact.
So they won’t defend corporations from right wing terrorism but they’ll threaten to sue them for being victimized by right wing terrorism?
Fucking Fascism right there! Those Attorney Generals are unAmerican assholes. I hate the bullshit culture wars that Republicans put so much energy into. Imagine if they tried to actually use that energy to make this a better country for everyone.
Stand up to bigots and bullies wherever you can, folks!
“a comprehensive effort to promote gender and sexual identity among children,”
They keep using words that they don’t even understand well, come on.
They keep using words that they don’t even understand well, come on.
Local republicans put out a flyer 2 or so elections ago making sure we all knew that the Democratic/Progressive candidate wanted to “educate and transform” us.
Well damn I was already gonna vote for that candidate anyhow, but now you sealed it!
Honestly, as someone that grew up in an ultra conservative Christian cult, this makes me want to join the Satanic Temple movement. We need to provide a challenge to this nonsense from a different direction using the same rules.