Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Issues Threats Regarding Target

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Rapier108
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10:10p, 6/22/23
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, D., wrote a letter to Target warning that their decision to pull Pride merchandise from certain stores encourages bullying and will embolden "hateful" methods.

Ellison co-led an open letter of 15 AGs expressing their concerns over Target pulling products in response to consumer outrage, and said they could use civil rights law to defend the corporate giant.

Target faced backlash over their Pride Month displays with rainbow and LGBTQ+ messaging that included new products like female-style swimsuits that can be used to "tuck" male genitalia.

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"Against this backdrop, Pride merchandise like Target's helps LGBTQIA+ people see that they enjoy considerable support and that loud and intimidating fringe voices and bullies do not represent the views of society at large," the letter claimed. "We understand Target recently pulled some Pride merchandise from its shelves out of concern for worker and customer safety," the letter states.

The letter went on to caution Target that by giving in to consumer outrage, it is telling them that their methods work.

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The letter closed with noting that existing civil rights law not only protects people from discrimination, but also demands "obligations" from corporations.

"Indeed, all our states have laws protecting against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in places of public accommodation like Target stores. While these laws certainly do not create a legal obligation for retailers to offer any particular merchandise or create any particular displays, they do demand that customers be treated equally," the letter stated. "In this context, we urge Target to be mindful of its obligations under these laws as it makes decisions as to how to respond to backlash against its Pride merchandise."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-warns-target-about-obligations-lgbtq-community

Sounds like he is threatening Target that they better give into to whatever the alphabet soup mafia demands (so called "obligations"), and threats to take legal action against anyone pressuring Target to pull all of the "pride" garbage.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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10:13p, 6/22/23
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10:14p, 6/22/23
The law requires nothing from corporations like he's insinuating. He can EaBoD.
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Robert L. Peters
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10:18p, 6/22/23
These are the problems you get into when yo ass go woke
What you say, Paper Champion? I'm gonna beat you like a dog, a dog, you hear me!
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10:19p, 6/22/23
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they could use civil rights law to defend the corporate giant.
What, are you going to make me buy stuff from Target? Get bent.
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10:20p, 6/22/23
By giving into shoplifters, the AGs are emboldening certain groups regarding Target and other retailers.
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Old May Banker
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10:23p, 6/22/23
Keith Ellison is one of the sorriest, most despicable humans, to ever waste oxygen. Dude is pure trash.
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10:48p, 6/22/23
Say what you will about his lack of power - but he can mike life very difficult for that company. AGs have way too much power and they love to exercise for their own political ends. I deal with this all the time.
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In reply to Aggie Jurist • 10:59p, 6/22/23
Aggie Jurist said:
Say what you will about his lack of power - but he can mike life very difficult for that company. AGs have way too much power and they love to exercise for their own political ends. I deal with this all the time.


Target could always move their headquarters out of Minneapolis.
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11:04p, 6/22/23
Soooo, he's now bullying Target.. what an idiot
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11:13p, 6/22/23
Every day I am more and more grateful I left MN last Summer.

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11:27p, 6/22/23
I don't think target survives long term chalk up another retail death to the woke idiots.
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11:28p, 6/22/23
Sounds to me like the Dems/Libs do not care anymore about what happens to Target than I do.

Target decided to go Woke and managed to alienate about 35%-45% of their customers. Now the Dems/Libs are going after Target for back peddling on being Woke and trying to maintain their customer base. They deserve every bit of this. I hope they go bankrupt.
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11:31p, 6/22/23

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, D., wrote a letter to Target warning that their decision to pull Pride merchandise from certain stores encourages bullying and will embolden "hateful" methods.
Bullying encourages bullying, Keith. You know... what you are doing here.
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In reply to Rapier108 • 12:42a, 6/23/23
Considering what's happening to bud light, I wouldn't say the outrage against this is coming from fringe, extremist bullies and the majority of society does not in fact support this crap.
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1:46a, 6/23/23
So Target in particular HAS to put out pride crap?
No, I don't care what CNN or MSNBC said this time
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4:57a, 6/23/23
Sounds like he's gotten bored without having any innocent police officers to send to prison....

Poor fella


Hopefully a human scum multi-felon will die of fentanyl overdose in police custody so this wonderful woke human can get back to doing what he does best
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In reply to Old May Banker • 5:00a, 6/23/23
Old May Banker said:
Keith Ellison is one of the sorriest, most despicable humans, to ever waste oxygen. Dude is pure trash.
he is literally the male equivalent of Ilhan Omar:

Minnesotan, black, Muslim, far left and America haters.
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5:50a, 6/23/23
We have arrived when the government tells us what to sell.
Hey libs, is that what you signed on for?
Next idiot may forbid Starbucks or sushi.
May forbid makeup.
Y'all sure like power.
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5:59a, 6/23/23
This actually is fascism. The left screams the right does it all time, but it's actually done by the left reguarly.
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7:21a, 6/23/23
Guy is human garbage and so is his father. They both deserve to be in a trash dump.
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7:27a, 6/23/23
Concerned Moderate will be here shortly to tell us there's no proof that this sort of behavior is outright fascism and that they aren't goal tending for the DNC by saying so.
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 7:32a, 6/23/23
TexAgs91 said:
So Target in particular HAS to put out pride crap?
Eventually, yes.

Just like Olympia school district in Washington State says your kid has to attend LGBQXYZ+/- education classes. No opt out, take the classes and bake the cake while you are at it.

Compliance. Is. Going. To. Become. Mandated.
"Green" is the new RED.
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In reply to Maroon Dawn • 7:37a, 6/23/23
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Concerned Moderate will be here shortly to tell us there's no proof that this sort of behavior is outright fascism and that they aren't goal tending for the DNC by saying so.
I wonder, all of these concerned moderates who claim they will not vote for Trump b/c of the way he acted (mean tweets, espionage, etc) during his term.......who did they vote for in 2016? Trump or Hillary?
"Green" is the new RED.
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In reply to 45-70Ag • 8:13a, 6/23/23
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Guy is human garbage and so is his father. They both deserve to be in a trash dump.


What's your concern with Keith Ellison's father? I've never heard of him, and not sure if he is even alive.
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8:19a, 6/23/23
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, D., wrote a letter to Target warning that their decision to pull Pride merchandise from certain stores encourages bullying and will embolden "hateful" methods.

So not having "Pride" merchandise encourages bullying/"hate"? I suppose by not having pornography on their shelves then Target is encouraging sex trafficking? That logic makes no sense, even for a lawyer.
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In reply to Rapier108 • 8:33a, 6/23/23
That guy is and has been a fraud his whole career.

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Break the Wheel opens with Ellison waking up on May 26, 2020, to the infamous video of George Floyd dying under the weight of Derek Chauvin and his colleagues the day before. He recalls feeling that he "was watching a murder" and comments: "There was a time when I would have jumped out of bed and run out into the streets with my neighbors to protest the injustice and yell 'No justice, no peace!'"

Ellison does not expand on this allusion to his past, but some elaboration is warranted. Over the first ten years of his career, from 1990 to 2000, Ellison was a member and local leader of the Nation of Islam who taunted police and supported cop killers. He spoke up for the murderers of Minneapolis police officer Jerry Haaf and far more famous perpetrators in other cities, such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Joanne Chesimard, and Kathleen Soliah. The value of this book, if it has any, comes in how it reveals this hostility to police as the throughline of Ellison's political careera career that has culminated in his becoming Minnesota's top law enforcement officer.
So now he of course cloaks himself as a devout muslim who…demands that Target stock satanic/gay merchandise. Before becoming Obama's little Mogadishu of cultural enrichment, less communist democrats in Minnesota would have thrown this guy out at a much earlier stage of his career. Now he is very dangerous, as a threat to hold higher office.
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8:47a, 6/23/23
Serves Target right for being headquartered in that ****hole - they are HQed in Minneapolis.
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9:08a, 6/23/23
If Target sent a letter saying, "Dear Attorney General Keith Ellison, why don't you come over here and kiss my rosy red rebel arse" then I might consider shopping there again.
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9:13a, 6/23/23
Target has not gotten $1from me since their initial bathroom stunt maybe 10 years ago. And never will in the future. You can block it and book it!

How many of you can say the same?
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In reply to Old Sarge • 10:51a, 6/23/23
Old Sarge said:
TexAgs91 said:
So Target in particular HAS to put out pride crap?
Eventually, yes.

Just like Olympia school district in Washington State says your kid has to attend LGBQXYZ+/- education classes. No opt out, take the classes and bake the cake while you are at it.

Compliance. Is. Going. To. Become. Mandated.
America is dead
No, I don't care what CNN or MSNBC said this time
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In reply to SuhrThang • 10:52a, 6/23/23
SuhrThang said:
Target has not gotten $1from me since their initial bathroom stunt maybe 10 years ago. And never will in the future. You can block it and book it!

How many of you can say the same?
Same here
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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In reply to Rapier108 • 12:08p, 6/23/23
Rapier108 said:
SuhrThang said:
Target has not gotten $1from me since their initial bathroom stunt maybe 10 years ago. And never will in the future. You can block it and book it!

How many of you can say the same?
Same here
Never really cared for Target much. I know that I have not been in one in at least 5 years. Probably longer. Their support of deviance is just another factor in why I never go in their stores.
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12:12p, 6/23/23
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The letter went on to caution Target that by giving in to consumer outrage, it is telling them that their methods work.
This statement shouldn't be glossed over. The irony of this coming from a leftist whose fellow leftists have been practicing consumer outrage for decades is quite rich.
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