Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) suggested on Friday that Target had “decided to go to war” with its customers by releasing its annual Pride Month collection.
“Target may have decided to stay out of the culture wars, instead it decided to go to war with many parts of its customer base,” Vance said. Tweet. “I don’t shop at Target anymore, and it seems a lot of families are doing the same.”
Conservatives have called for a boycott of the company’s LGBTQ products, with many Republican lawmakers expressing support.
“Why support the woke corporations that hate you?” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said in Twitter monday “Target is not going to get another dollar from me.”
Compared to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) the situation in the conservative backlash Bud Light faced last month after partnering with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
“What they don’t know is the men, who are giving up Bud Light, the wives are shopping at Target. Or at least they used to be,” Green Tweet on Thursday.
Target announced this week that it was removing some items from stores and that it was moving Pride merchandise to the back of some stores in the South, after customers knocked over Pride displays, angry that they were confronted workers and posted threatening videos on social media, according to The Associated Press.
“Since introducing this year’s collection, we have experienced threats that have impacted our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work,” Target said in a statement to the AP. “Due to these unchangeable circumstances, we are making changes to our plans, including removing items that are at the center of the most important confrontation criteria.”
The company has been selling merchandise for Pride Month, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ community, for a decade, according to The New York Times.
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