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Target not budging – so AFA stands firm
ONE News ^ | May 12, 2016 | Chris Woodward

Posted on 05/12/2016 11:22:53 AM PDT by aquila48

A boycott of Target continues following a meeting between company officials and representatives from the American Family Association, which initiated the boycott that has attracted more than a million individual supporters.

Target is inviting transgender employees and customers to use the bathroom and changing room for the gender they identify with. According to Target, the policy is all about inclusivity and making people feel welcome.

American Family Association is boycotting Target, saying the policy puts women and children at risk of sexual predators who may take advantage of the policy. After AFA shared these concerns with Target officials Wednesday, the retailer stood by its policy.

"Target was very polite and very professional and they heard out our concerns over their restroom and changing room policy ... but Target stood by their position – and therefore the boycott will continue," says Walker Wildmon of AFA.

The family advocacy group has collected 1.2-million petition signatures, and on Wednesday hand-delivered one-million of those signatures at Target headquarters in Minneapolis.

(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...


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To: aquila48
There is not one item that Target sells that I cannot conveniently buy elsewhere. And, I have been.

But there is more to the story.

Once Target customers start shopping elsewhere, they are changing their shopping habits.

Thus, simply settling the dispute will not bring in throngs of returnees.

Think back to the baseball strike of 1994. Lots of baseball fans were incensed about the player's greedy disregard of the fans, and never, ever came back.

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41 posted on 05/12/2016 12:23:02 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Lizavetta
It's pretty simple. The political winds are going pro-tranny and Target doesn't want lawsuits. I don't think it's their leadership's beliefs to do this but the Left is very litigious.

In the case of many corporations you'd be right, but with Target you are wrong. They have a track record for enthusiastically embracing Progressive causes that goes WAY back.


42 posted on 05/12/2016 12:40:52 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: aquila48

I’m short TGT stock (via puts) from 84 and not complaining a bit.


43 posted on 05/12/2016 12:42:18 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: MrEdd

I didn’t say Target won’t, I said if you want them to it has to hit the bottom line and hit it hard.... until you see their revenues/earnings drop significantly compared to the sector they aren’t going to change.


44 posted on 05/12/2016 12:42:58 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: aquila48
...the policy is all about inclusivity and making people feel welcome...

Creeps must feel welcome, normal people do not matter. That just doesn't seem like an economic solution given the demographics of our society.

45 posted on 05/12/2016 12:44:45 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: aquila48

How about going to the CEO’s office and take a dump on his desk? And went he whines about it, accuse him of not being tolerant and non-inclusive. Because, today, you’ve identified as being a non-house broken dog.


46 posted on 05/12/2016 12:45:03 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: aquila48

As for me and my family, Target no longer exists.


47 posted on 05/12/2016 12:47:06 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: aquila48
I just act like they "DON'T EXIST."

I spend my money with businesses that "DO EXIST."

48 posted on 05/12/2016 12:54:43 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: rovenstinez

“Bruce Jenner I hear is now not sure which bathroom he will be choosing. Says maybe he is going to UN transition”

The “transition” saved him from that pesky vehicular homicide....


49 posted on 05/12/2016 1:10:25 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: aquila48

Think it is finally time to show these people that Americans can do the right thing. It may seem drastic but I think its time we actually put one of these businesses that are trying to change our society our nation our lives, OUT OF BUSINESS.
If we drop their stock enough they can either get on board and go back to protecting women and children of they can fail.


50 posted on 05/12/2016 1:27:33 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; All
Interesting that the Target executives are willing to piss off 99.5% of their customer base to protect perverts

That's what I thought, too! 'make everybody feel welcome'??? WTF??? They are making a huge segment of their former customers feel decidedly UN-welcome! But I guess they don't care.
51 posted on 05/12/2016 1:31:45 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
They’re looking at it from the stand point of, will their Liberal business increase to make up for it.

That's what the Dixie Chicks thought, but in spite of lip service the liberal support never came, and now they're history. Same thing will probably happen here.

Liberals are elitists, they look down their noses at big box discount outlets.

Target will come to wish they hadn't done this.

52 posted on 05/12/2016 1:35:13 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: aquila48

Just wait for the lawsuits hit Target for all the child ( and adult) moleststions and rapes they’re enabling. Target will drop its sicko bathroom policy FAST!


53 posted on 05/12/2016 1:42:02 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Jeff Chandler

There’s a saying “Shoot, shovel, and shut up.” Target could have done like thousands of other businesses and said nothing but they wanted to make it political,


54 posted on 05/12/2016 1:45:22 PM PDT by tiki
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To: 48th SPS Crusader

“Think it is finally time to show these people that Americans can do the right thing.”

It’s way past time. They knuckle under the leftists because the left knows how to pressure them. It’s way past time that we learn that lesson and start dishing out the same medicine instead of just taking it.

If we can’t win this slam dunk of an issue what can we win?


55 posted on 05/12/2016 1:57:59 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48
It will take a while, but they're going to feel the decline just like J C Penny's did. When the back to school and Christmas season figures are down, that's when they'll sober up.

JMHo

56 posted on 05/12/2016 1:58:17 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: aquila48

Maybe it’s a plot by senior management to crash a failing concern, loot what capital is left and then when it’s time to close the doors blame the evil, hateful reactionaries.


57 posted on 05/12/2016 2:29:02 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Hildabeast:Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism)
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To: notdownwidems

They WILL care, as they are losing billions of book value, and the Wall Street predators go for a hostile takeover. LOL


58 posted on 05/12/2016 2:43:41 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: aquila48
If was a demoncrat, I'd sign up with about 100 false addresses...

We need about 5-million anti-perverts to sign up before Target will surrender...

59 posted on 05/12/2016 3:57:31 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: aquila48

I would address her as “Tovarisch Zampolit.”


60 posted on 05/12/2016 4:26:58 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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