Last week Target Corporation gave $150,000 to Minnesota Forward, an anti-gay groups supporting Republican Tom Emmer’s campaign for Minnesota governor. This donation, clearly acceptible under the new Citizens United Supreme Court ruling angered many in the state, seeing this as a $150,000 contribution to fund ant-gay politics.One Eden Prairie mom and grandmother took her anger directly to a Target. Her repeated attempts to get to Target executives failed so she took her Target Charge Card. A $226 purchase on that card was immediately returned for credit and she scissored her Target card into little pieces to be used no more,
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When corporations were given the green light to donate to PACs I am sure a lot of people saw this exact type of conflict on the horizon. What I believe a lot of voters may not understand is the type of separations that occur between corporate agenda and employee environment.
Large corporations are and will likely continue to be chimeric hydras full of internal and external conflict. If anything, this might be the cheapest ad campaign ever–in a world of spin there really is no bad publicity, and if anything, maybe conservatives that shopped at Target’s competitors before will now shop at Target.
While I don’t necessarily agree with Target’s decision to donate to MN Forward, one cannot simply deny their track record in practice. Boycotting Target is likely to mostly hurt its hardworking employees on the floor and in the warehouse whereas the executive levels of corporations (the decision makers) are designed to be resilient to this kind of jolt.
Bottom line, I’m not going to blacklist Target until they’ve personally done me a disservice. I say keep shopping at Target if you want to and if you feel so inclined, donate a few of your own dollars (that you saved by not shopping at a competitor) to PAC you feel is worthy. In the end, its the voters who get to choose our leaders, not Target, not MN Forward.
Man, imagine all those boys who are now full grown adults. Those who have been molested by gays. Do they, should they, boy-cot places where gays work/own? ….flip a coin
Scott, there are so many things wrong with your statement.
1- It seems you have a bias against homesexuals and you perceive them as people who molest others at a high level. That is incorrect.
2- you are then asking if people who have been molested should boycott, which is a hypothetical.
Similar, I could say:
Man, “Imagine all those boys raped by Republicans over the years who are now full grown, etc.”
3- If people have been molested by someone who owns a business I think it is their right to boycott if they desire. Just like it is the right of many other people to boycott Target, Best Buy or Regis corporation.
Imagine if Target supported a candidate who wanted to not allow Conservative Christians to marry each other. How would you feel about that?
This is a civil rights issue. But, then again, Teahadists don’t believe in Civil Rights, do they?