Parker Molloy
What kind of message does this send? Caving is deranged and only encourages more of this crap. https://apnews.com/article/target-pride-lgbtq-4bc9de6339f86748bcb8a453d7b9acf0
Target becomes latest company to suffer backlash for LGBTQ+ support, pulls some Pride month clothing

Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. Target declined to confirm which items it was removing but among the ones that garnered the most attention were “tuck friendly” adult women’s swimsuits that allow trans women who have not had gender-affirming operations to conceal their private parts. Designs by Abprallen, a London-based company which designs and sells occult- and satanic-themed LGBTQ+ clothing and accessories, have also sparked a backlash.

AP News
May 24, 2023 at 1:08amWeb
Show threadParker MolloyMay 24, 2023
The right has gotten increasingly aggressive, using the threat of violence to get what they want. People showing up with guns to protest against pride events, bomb threats called into hospitals, etc. This is terrorism. But no one will ever describe it that way?
Show threadParker MolloyMay 24, 2023
The reporting has been abysmal, as well.
This treats this as just some conflict about what additional legal protections trans people should have, but it's about taking *away* protections, trying to make it as difficult as possible for trans people to just live. Yes, adults, too!
Show threadsolientMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy AP trying to frame fascist hatred of all queers as the fault of trans people? Miss me with that shit.
Show threadAriadneMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy love that my very existence is a “divisive issue”
Show threadPeterMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy and still my 13yo and her friends don't understand why I won't drop them off at pride events.

(For clarity: I absolutely drive them - I just insist on hanging around.)

Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy Because it's not (we all know it actually is, but bear with me). It's what the people in power want - ergo, not considered terrorism.
Show threadIkeMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy Right?! We can read a news headline about religious extremists in a middle eastern country terrorising their women, strangling their kids education, assaulting their minority sects, and subverting their government by assaulting their politicians, but in the USA this is somehow just part of democracy?!
Show threadFirstName BunchOfNumbersMay 24, 2023

@ike @parkermolloy It's pretty amazing, how much the Right will rail on about "Sharia Law" coming here, and yet will see zero comparison when they're attempting to indoctrinate everyone around them into their religious zealotry.

And it pretty much comes down to hubris. Because they think, rather BELIEVE, they're correct over every, and anyone else.

Fanaticism is fucking dangerous, no matter what it's for.

Show threadStaid WinnowMay 24, 2023

@bizzacore @ike @parkermolloy

Hear me out, but it is not amazing.

They are relying on their opponent to lose their shit over sheer hypocrisy.

Gaslighting. That's what they are doing and it is working. People are being suckered into focusing on their hypocrisy rather than the damage caused by the implementation of their Sharia Law.

It's like proclaiming to be non-violent but slapping you hard while you are stunned by the contradiction, instead of by the slap.

Show threadFirstName BunchOfNumbersMay 24, 2023

@staidwinnow @ike @parkermolloy I get your point, but I think the collective can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.

People who are paying attention (and not compromised by the brain rot, of course) can see that both their ideology and the gaslighting are equally harmful.

The Right is always lurking in the shadows. That's where they operate. Classically, they play the long game

Show threadJerameeMay 24, 2023
@bizzacore @ike @parkermolloy
Here's another irony. The shariah law that horrifies us is there bc of the US. Iran replaced their king (Shah) with an elected a moderate communist govt that worked to improve people's lives by reclaiming their oil fields, etc. The US didn't like it & organized a coup. The people hated the new cup govt, but the moderates were dead, so the only people who could organize were the religious zealots.
Thanks America!
Show threadFirstName BunchOfNumbersMay 24, 2023
@Jeramee @ike @parkermolloy sheesh. That would friggin' figure
Show threadJerameeMay 24, 2023
@bizzacore @ike @parkermolloy
If you think that's bad, have you heard about the banana wars?
Show threadMxhradMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy

This is what the brown shirts did in Germany in the 1930's. No one stopped them and they just kept on getting worse.

Show threadGraydonMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy Modern police do not accept civil control. (E.g., the Toronto police response to not getting a raise was to stop enforcing traffic laws.) This was a deliberate generational effort from the right.

As a result, there's no reliable mechanism of enforcement of laws against political violence; the police are generally white supremacist and generally in favour of right wing policies. Calling it terrorism requires an alternative capacity for force available to the civil power.

Show threadAn Average AmericanMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy It is domestic terrorism in plain sight
Show threadKelly GuimontMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy the message is "we care more about the feelings of the Fuck Your Feelings demographic."
Show threadKevin Karhan May 24, 2023

@parkermolloy exactly!

This is literally bowing before #StochasticTerrorists!

Show threadCovidiocracyMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy
The terrorists keep winning.
Show threadone non-non-blondeMay 24, 2023
@ampersine @parkermolloy terrorism has always worked.
Show threadtoxtethogradyMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy The message it sends is they're trying to protect their business. So tell them they'll lose your business unless they remove all the crucifix jewelry they sell, remove all the Kirk Cameron videos they're selling and remove any cute "Bless this house" doormats they have. Complain that it's offensive. But don't stop there. Complain about any MAGA-aligned merchandise they have, such as camo caps, Under Armor flag gear and the like...
Show threadParker MolloyMay 24, 2023
@toxtethogrady the right uses the threat of violence to get what it wants. Why is this being treated as okay?! People breaking things in the store and throwing tantrums is how they get their way.
Show threadtoxtethogradyMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy The right also whines they're victims of left-wing intimidation and threats of violence. Their play is pure projection...
Show threadKrazyKatMay 24, 2023
@toxtethogrady @parkermolloy Concur.
Show threadone non-non-blondeMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy @toxtethogrady I can’t stress enough that this is just how it’s always been.

Political victories are won through violence. Always.

Show threadKeithMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy the capitalists do not care if we fall to fascism. they probably think it's better for their bottom line.
Show threadCharles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥May 24, 2023
@editor
I can't speak for all captalists, but I think bigotry and outright fascism are evil and bad for the bottom line, which is another way of saying bad for generating wealth and prosperity.
@parkermolloy
Show threadKeithMay 24, 2023
@cgervasi for capitalists, lighting the planet on fire was worth it. slavery was worth it. genocide of native people was worth it - for them.
Show threadCharles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥May 24, 2023
@editor This is categorically incorrect. Respecting people's right to own means of production means not allowing people set other people's stuff on fire. The right to own things applies to people's own lives and labor and freedom to live as they choose. By its nature it's against stealing or trashing people's stuff, as in the first nations of North America or contributing to climate change without paying to clean up the mess you make.
Show threadJasmineMay 24, 2023

@cgervasi @editor

🤡

Show threadKeithMay 24, 2023

@cgervasi They have made trillions upon trillions of dollars and they have nott cleaned up jack shit, and they won't. Reparations for slavery - $0. Reparations for genocide - $0. Reparations for destroying the planet - $0.

I'm not talking about what SHOULD happen. I'm talking about what is happening.

Show threadCharles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥May 24, 2023
@editor Slavery, genocide, and other human horrors predate private ownership of production. They've massively decreased. Cleaning up those things is difficult because the perpetrators and victims are dead. But we now live in a world where most people consider those things horrific, and people have moved on to reducing other horrors like domestic violence and animal cruelty. I think this progress is at least partly related to capitalism, and the explosion in prosperity is directly caused by it.
Show threadPaul LalondeMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy "terrorism works"
Show threadone non-non-blondeMay 24, 2023
@Flux @parkermolloy always has.
Show threadRachel, Femme Doux NaturelMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy it sends the message that we knew all along: capitalists are fairweather friends to queer people, and there can be no justice or liberation through rainbow capitalism.
Show threadMxhradMay 24, 2023

@YKantRachelRead @parkermolloy

Yup and minorities. They make a bunch of ads with rainbows and black families, then turn around and donate those profits to far right extremists that are making it illegal to mention either.

Show threadundead enby of the apocalypseMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy this is a very worrying sign, considering how the amount of rainbow capitalism (which despite all this should still be rejected) corporations like target do is an indicator of the social climate.
Show threadEdge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈May 24, 2023
@parkermolloy @ttpphd Terrorism. Do what we tell you, or face our consequences.
Show threadjoe•iuculano May 24, 2023

@parkermolloy

#BoycottTarget

Show threadone non-non-blondeMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy can you imagine how much better the world would be if the left did this kind of thing?

I wish the left, for example, made people at Netflix fear for their lives for keeping Dave chappelle around. But noooo we have to seize the “moral high ground” and just let people walk all over us.

The time for hoping the violent and organized far right will get arrested or disappear is past. The time for catching up is now.

Show threadNate GorbyMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy pretty sure keeping their employees safe is more important.
Show threadAaronMay 24, 2023

It sends the message that liberals are pussy bitches.

Don't be a liberal simp for capitalism.

Buy a gun and learn to fight: be a leftist.

Show threadCharles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥May 24, 2023
@parkermolloy I expected more from #Target. They should work out right now just how far they'll go in response to threats. For example, would they remove books and toys depicting women doing historically male jobs? Would they remove mannequins and dolls depicting people with darker sink? Maybe LGBTQ is their limit.
Show threadBruce MirkenMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy Write to Target's security address, abuse@target.com, and tell them that because of this action you now feel unsafe shopping at #Target stores. I just did.
Show threadGina B FlaMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy
Why make Target the bad guy?
Show threadBatsy May 24, 2023
@Ginafla @parkermolloy #Target just demonstrated what rainbow capitalism is about, they don't actually support anyone, they'll turn tail and run at the first sign of trouble or a market shift because they don't actually support the causes they claim to.
Show threadMOVED TO PLUSH.CITYMay 24, 2023
@Ginafla @parkermolloy because they can't take a stand for once or they lose their precious money
Show threadOtownKimMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy Fuck the Homophobics!!
Show threadfemaven🔜 @BSides312!!May 24, 2023
@parkermolloy so much for allyship
Show threadSteve RehrauerMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy Grr.
Show threadT Y BeaulieuMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy
The message is so-called christians are terrorist
Don't blame Target for trying to protect their employees
Show threadParker MolloyMay 24, 2023
@TYB get bent. This only makes Target employees LESS safe.
Show threadT Y BeaulieuMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy
two words
MALL SHOOTINGS
maybe we should get a coordinated date and wear our best pride wear and show up
I would say at their churches but there are fewer every day, so in the streets everywhere
MAYBE all of "We, the People" straight, gay and everything in between have a massive show of support
If you are willing to sacrifice retail workers and anyone wh shops Target, feel free to fornicate thyself
Show threadShushMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy they just want $