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Post by easye on May 25, 2023 8:56:29 GMT -5
I think it is telling that they are changing the line up not due to the outrage, but to physically protect their staff. Staff who have nothing to do with the making the choices to carry product or sell items.
So, all you need to do to get things you do not like changed, is resort to violence against your fellow low-income workers? Sounds healthy!
The lessons of the pandemic live on, but not in the way we all wished.
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Post by adurot on May 25, 2023 12:14:09 GMT -5
I think it is telling that they are changing the line up not due to the outrage, but to physically protect their staff. Staff who have nothing to do with the making the choices to carry product or sell items. So, all you need to do to get things you do not like changed, is resort to violence against your fellow low-income workers? Sounds healthy! The lessons of the pandemic live on, but not in the way we all wished.
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Post by skyth on May 25, 2023 12:54:12 GMT -5
Though one has to wonder, these items likely don't sell all that well compared to their normal product, so cutting back on them and giving the premium space to other product seems to make sense from a financial perspective - The violent threats gives them cover to do this though.
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Post by Disciple of Fate on May 25, 2023 13:41:38 GMT -5
But why would they be given a premium space in the first place then? These companies aren't participating out of kindness, this is calculated to make them money.
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Post by bobtheinquisitor on May 25, 2023 14:42:16 GMT -5
Maybe those items sold better when people were less afraid to wear or display them in public?
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Post by Disciple of Fate on May 25, 2023 15:23:43 GMT -5
The US has been regressing on this for a while, you would think the fear intensified at least since The Pulse shooting.
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Post by easye on May 25, 2023 15:57:51 GMT -5
Target has annually released a special collection for Pride month. They partner with smaller designers/producers in the LGBTQ+ community for these types of niche promotions. In most stores, it is a single rack/display piece.
In addition, they have a very diversity friendly internal corporate culture and have had rather progressive company values since (at least) the 90's and possibly longer.
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Post by Haighus on May 26, 2023 3:22:00 GMT -5
Sadly, the brand-name "Target" is feeling a little too much like a statement of intent in the current US climate.
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Post by easye on Jun 2, 2023 13:29:54 GMT -5
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Post by bobtheinquisitor on Jun 2, 2023 20:22:14 GMT -5
I thought the plan was to finish getting rid of the rest of us before turning on each other..?
Isn’t this like shooting one of your fellow heisters before getting the diamonds out of the casino?
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Post by adurot on Jun 3, 2023 1:44:31 GMT -5
They routinely eat their own. It’s the one amusing aspect of their ideology.
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Post by herzlos on Jun 5, 2023 1:00:11 GMT -5
Ah, but despite being rabidly right wing and anti-trans, by having a member of staff responsible for wokeness makes them the enemy.
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Jun 5, 2023 8:03:28 GMT -5
Ah, but despite being rabidly right wing and anti-trans, by having a member of staff responsible for wokeness makes them the enemy. And by "responsible for wokeness", we mean "checks to make sure the company is not engaging in illegal discrimination."
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Post by herzlos on Jun 5, 2023 8:05:06 GMT -5
Ah, but despite being rabidly right wing and anti-trans, by having a member of staff responsible for wokeness makes them the enemy. And by "responsible for wokeness", we mean "checks to make sure the company is not engaging in illegal discrimination." Or more likely "check that the company isn't getting in trouble for illegal discrimination". But given the right wing is angry and hate filled, they don't really see any nuance and any accusation of wokeness is enough to get them to turn on, well, anything. Hell, they even managed to turn on Bud Light over something they wouldn't have even seen unless someone was following a trans blogger on TikTok.
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Jun 5, 2023 13:18:00 GMT -5
Hopefully some factionalism will at least slow them down, but the companies couldn't care less. How much will Chick-fil-A donate to the GoP next year?
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