It’s getting bad out there for Target.
But did they bring it all upon themselves?
Self-inflicted wound?
It looks like it.
Hard to even call it a self-inflicted accident when it seems like it was very intentional and desired?
And carefully planned over many years?
Let’s dig in and check out the latest.
Fox News reports the following headline: “Retailer partners with organization that encourages secret gender changes among children in schools”:
TARGET TAKES AIM: The retail giant provides annual donations to GLSEN, which calls for gender ideology to be integrated into all classes, even math. https://t.co/f7g9yLDvuO pic.twitter.com/vCK6fqXepa
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 26, 2023
Wow, that’s bad.
So bad that Elon Musk jumped in and asked: “Is this true Target?”
Is this true, @Target? https://t.co/WZpk9BBhGo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2023
Others are simply posting stuff like this:
— Chris🎤⚒️ (@TDSNproducer) May 27, 2023
Ouch.
True?
Fox News confirms the details:
Target Corporation is partnering with a K-12 education group for which focuses on getting districts to adopt policies that will keep parents in the dark on their child’s in-school gender transition, providing sexually explicit books to schools for free, and integrating gender ideology at all levels of curriculum in public schools, Fox News Digital uncovered.
ADVERTISEMENT“GLSEN leads the movement in creating affirming… and anti-racist spaces for LGBTQIA+ students. We are proud of 10+ years of collaboration with GLSEN and continue to support their mission,” Target said. The retail giant provides annual donations to GLSEN.
GLSEN calls for gender ideology to be integrated into all classes, even math. It provides educators instructions on how they can make math “more inclusive of trans and non-binary identities” by including “they/them” pronouns in word problems.
In another example, GLSEN recommended that teachers intervene if students are making graphs about sex and gender to ensure it includes the ideology supported by GLSEN. “When students are creating their own surveys, if they want to include data for biological sex, teachers need to be sure they include both intersex and other as choices.”
“[A]nd if the students want to include data for gender, a variety of choices need to be included, such as agender, genderfluid, female, male, nonbinary, transman, transwoman, and other,” a lesson plan continued.
GLSEN also spotlighted recommendations from a teacher who discussed incorporating gender ideology into science.
“It took me three years of teaching middle-school science before feeling comfortable enough to come out to my students as a trans man. We were starting a unit focused on how identity impacts the practice of science, including the ways that specific groups are marginalized by normative ideas,” the teacher said. “In the introduction to the unit, I shared my personal experience of… the ways that trans people are often erased by the language used by scientists and medical professionals to describe bodies, patients, and health practices.”
To date, the retail giant has donated at least $2.1 million to GLSEN, which offers districts and students guidance on how to hide gender transitions from parents.
GLSEN issued a statement regarding this boycott:
“Recent pushback against businesses such as Anheuser-Busch and Target, blatantly organized by extremist groups, serves as a wake up call for all businesses that support the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve seen this extremist playbook of attacks before. Their goal is clear: to prevent LGBTQ+ inclusion and representation, silence our allies and make our community invisible. These attacks fuel hate against LGBTQ+ people, just as we’ve seen this year with more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that restrict basic freedoms and aim to erase LGBTQ+ people.
Doubling down on your values is not only the right thing to do, it’s good for business. Research shows that if a brand publicly supports and demonstrates a commitment to expanding and protecting LGBTQ+ rights, Americans are 2x more likely to buy or use the brand. Americans ages 18-34 are 5.5x more likely to want to work at a company if it publicly supports and demonstrates a commitment to expanding and protecting LGBTQ+ rights.
It isn’t just LGBTQ+ consumers and communities: 70% of non-LGBTQ+ people believe companies should publicly support and include the LGBTQ+ community through practices like hiring, advertising and sponsorships (Accelerating Acceptance, 2023).
Glenn Beck says the boycotts are working:
Target Stock Takes A Major Hit
The saying goes if you go woke then you go broke, and that couldn’t be any more true than what Target is experiencing right now.
Just weeks after Target started to promote “Pride” gear that featured “tuck friendly” bathing suits for “trans kids” Target’s stock has dropped over 11%.
The market value of Target in total has lost over $9 billion dollars and that number is expected to drop even more.
Before going completely woke Target’s stock closed at $160.96 a share not Target shares are going for $141.76.
Target's stock price tumbled from $160.00 to $141.00 since last week, after activist Scarlett Johnson highlighted the artist's involvement with the company in a social media thread.
MORE: https://t.co/Cv2vqeMRQn pic.twitter.com/IE4nIM2rCM
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) May 26, 2023
Target stock is plummeting.
This is what happens when you groom children, then double down by hiring a satanist to promote your products.
If you're taking part in the #targetboycott, hold the line… pic.twitter.com/4JFeWjus6G
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) May 25, 2023
The New York Post had more details to add:
Target has lost $9 billion in market value since angry social media users called for a boycott of the Minneapolis-based retailer over its rollout of the “PRIDE” collection featuring LGBTQ-friendly clothing for children.
ADVERTISEMENTA week ago Wednesday before the controversy erupted, Target’s stock closed at $160.96 a share, giving the big-box chain a market capitalization of $74.3 billion.
As of early trading on Thursday, however, shares of the company were trading off 1% at $141.76 — capping a weeklong tumble that has shrunk the “cheap chic” discount retailer’s value to $65.3 billion.
That amounts to a 12% drop that has shaved a whopping $9 billion off the company’s market capitalization.
Target said on Tuesday it was removing some items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month after intense backlash from some customers who confronted workers and tipped over displays.
Email from Target CEO to employees.
From tuck-friendly bathing suits to safe spaces for George Floyd. Target is 100 percent Woke.
Target stock price has lost 13 percent in 5 days.
$9 billion in market cap goes poof. pic.twitter.com/asiHwsBIQa
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 26, 2023
DO NOT GIVE UP AN INCH. The target boycott continues. They are scared. We are winning.
Target and Bud Light have lost BILLIONS in stock and their sales are plummeting. Find alternatives, ideally small local businesses. Never give them a cent of your money ever again. pic.twitter.com/X3oj9m6ozL
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) May 25, 2023
Red State had more details to report:
We’ve seen what has happened to Bud Light since they endorsed transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Being a Girl” as he mocked girls and women. As I reported earlier, they’ve now been reduced to trying to sell their beer for free (with rebates).
Yet, their sales have plummeted by 28 percent, by volume, just as we go into Memorial Day weekend, and they still don’t seem to be able to offload the stuff. They’re even buying some back from distributors at this point if it’s gone past the expiration date. If they can’t recover over this weekend, the beer experts are saying they may have lost a permanent section of their customers who are just not going to come back.
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