On behalf of myself and a majority of weary Americans, I’d like to ask a favor: Can you not? Hey there, person screaming at a store manager about a Pride display. Some words for the Target-boycotting, LGBTQ-fearing crowd on Pride Month So allow me to deliver the direct, unvarnished words I suspect many Americans would like the ever-riled-up anti-Pride posse to hear. But for most out in the real world, for the people who don’t have time to chant “Go woke, go broke!” outside their local Target or live in a state of perpetual anger, it’s all a bit much.

Rainbows and diversity are grist for the Fox News outrage mill, and if that’s the bubble you inhabit, I’m sure it all makes sense. Even Chick-fil-A, once boycotted by the left for its support of anti-LGBTQ groups, got sucked into the conservative boycott blender after people found out the company – brace yourselves – has a diversity, equity and inclusion policy that talks about highly controversial concepts like “ensuring equal access” and “valuing differences.” Bud Light was already in hot war-on-woke water for briefly partnering with a transgender influencer. Then the ire of the “anti-woke” crusaders turned on Kohl’s, again for the crime of selling rainbow T-shirts. Target stores were targeted by online bigots for displaying Pride Month merchandise. Pride Month 2023 has arrived, and with it are predictable waves of right-wing bellyaching over the audacity of corporations – or teachers, or schools, or pretty much anyone – showing support for LGBTQ+ people. Watch Video: Target holds ‘emergency’ meeting over LGBTQ items

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