/r/target coping with the boycott

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[–]Femaleisnthateful 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah that 'terrorism' comment just shits me. Choosing not to spend your money at a store is 'terrorism' now? I see this kind of hyperbole all over Reddit when it comes to trans stuff.

The comment about right/left strikes me as only half true. I don't think it's accurate that people who didn't go to college are necessarily making more money. If anything stores like Target attract demographics which are strapped for cash. Its also not a strict right/left divide. I'd wager there's a lot of people on both sides of the political spectrum who aren't in to tucking onesies.

That said, it's true that they - like Budweiser - are alienating their core customer base.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Choosing not to spend your money at a store is 'terrorism' now?

Actually, Target was supposedly the recipient of violent threats against employees. I say "supposedly" because as seems to be the case whenever the rainbow mafia gets threatened these days, there's a lot of social media mentions about the violence they're enduring but precious few police mentions.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If anything stores like Target attract demographics which are strapped for cash. Its also not a strict right/left divide. I'd wager there's a lot of people on both sides of the political spectrum who aren't in to tucking onesies.

But on the opposite side, Target has always been positioned as slightly classier than Walmart. Where Walmart attracts all the demographics that are strapped for cash, there's always been that image that Walmart is the "trashy" store, Target is the "upper-lower-middleclass" one.

(This ties to why Target would skew to the woke side; there's more poor people who think they're so fucking special and have the attitude of the bourgoisie with the bank account of the proletariat who skew woke.)