The inculcation of the left’s goals into society are often aided through the spontaneous enthusiastic support of corporations, their indifference, or pathetic submission against long-term interests. The left targets them because of their perceived vulnerabilities and the desire of the corporate executives to be perceived as politically correct. But 
corporations can also be made to respond to pressure from conservative customers. And so we support the efforts of the American Family Association (AFA) to pressure retail giant Target to change its “gender identification” bathroom policy as it is culturally corruptive, religiously offensive, endangers women and children in particular, denies expectations of privacy and makes laws against lewd behavior unenforceable. We have signed the AFA boycott Target pledge available here.
That Target jumped on the “gender identification” bandwagon is not surprising given its disregard for sensitivities on matters of family and sexuality. We remember some months ago seeing an end-aisle featuring discount tickets to Fifty Shades of Grey. Checking further we noted that their online presence featured the “exclusive” – “unrated” version of Fifty Shades of Grey and at the time promoted handcuffs as an accessory along with the movie.
We are not prudes but we support that people and families have a right not to have their values assaulted everywhere they go.
Regrettably other outlets featured the movie but Target seems intent on leading the way on gender confusion. Consider that (via Wikipedia) (this year) Target began to enforce gender neutrality in its marketing of toys, and no longer explicitly listed specific toys as being for “boys” or “girls”. This practice was expanded with the February 2016 launch of a new children’s decor line, Pillowfort, which will replace its Circo brand and feature more gender-neutral designs and color schemes.
Target Corporation has a “diversity” statement (also via Wikipedia) that sets out its policy in support of “individuality.” Accordingly: “individuality may include a wide spectrum of attributes such as personal style, age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, language, physical ability, religion, family, citizenship status, socio-economic circumstances, education, and life experiences.”
Readers might rightly question how deeply Target means what it says regarding “family” and “religion” when it runs roughshod over such concerns of its employees and customers when it comes to privacy and the bathroom. And what do they mean as regards “citizenship status” do workers have a “diversity” right not to disclose, or perhaps, a diversity right to work there no matter what their citizenship status?
Speaking of privacy, Target does not have a reputation of being all that assiduous when it comes to financial aspects of its customer’s privacy either (again via Wikipedia) In December 2013, a data breach of Target’s systems affected up to 110 million customers.[98][99] Compromised customer information included names, phone numbers, email and mailing addresses.[100] Target agreed to reimburse some costs incurred as a result of the breach to financial institutions, but has failed to reach a settlement with MasterCard over the resulting dispute.[101] In March 2015, Target reached a $10 million class-action settlement with affected customers.
Target does respond to public opinion, well if it doesn’t good riddance. More about the boycott American Family Association is spearheading is available here.
R Mall (cartoon courtesy Branco and NetRightDaily)
