Capitalisme & mondialisation Best buy et Wal-Mart financent la lutte contre les gays

Ungovernable · 4 Août 2010

Best buy / Target financent la lutte contre les gays

La chaine de magasin Best Buy viennent de faire un don de plus de $150,000 US a un candidat homophobe qui lutte contre le mariage gay et qui soutient un groupe de rock chrétien disant que c'est moral et correcte de tuer des gays et lesbiennes.

Plusieurs organismes ont dénoncés l'action de BestBuy et appellent au Boycott. En ce moment, la page facebook de BestBuy est pleine de critique de consommateurs, d'abord ils ont censuré tout ce qui était posté mais maintenant il y a trop de critique pour faire quoi que ce soit : la page facebook est inondé de dizaines de critiques à chaque heure.

"Target, practically everyone's favorite discount retail store, is headquartered in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. But along with precious bodies of water, Minnesota is home to some pretty rabid anti-gay politicians and groups. Among them include Tom Emmer. And Target, it seems, is apparently filling his campaign coffers with nearly $150,000.

Follow the money. At least, that's the message delivered by an article at sfist.com by Matt Baume, who tracks $150,000 from Target's coffers, through a political action committee (PAC) known as Minnesota Forward, all the way to Tom Emmer, who himself supports a Christian rock band in Minnesota that travels around the state saying that it's moral and righteous for religious people to kill gays and lesbians.

For those into algebra, it looks a little like this: Target + Minnesota Forward + Tom Emmer = Support for a rather dangerous and radical political philosophy that diminishes LGBT people to pests that should be murdered. And Target is cool with this?

Send the company a message right now, urging them to explain why their money is being used to fund a politics that not only serves to prevent LGBT equality, but breeds homophobia, transphobia and hatred."

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/targets_150000_donation_to_fund_anti-gay_politics

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Human Rights Campaign Slams Target And Best Buy For Supporting Anti-Gay Tom Emmer

The political fallout from the post-Citizens United spending by Target and other Minnesota companies on the state's gubernatorial race continues, with gay-rights activists attacking business interests for supporting the anti-gay Republican Tom Emmer.

As we noted last week, Target's donation of $150,000 to MN Forward, a business group supporting Emmer, has been causing a backlash among gay rights activists in the state, due to Emmer's support for a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and his close associations with the religious right.

Target and other companies supporting MN Forward and Emmer have made it clear that their support is based on Emmer's position on economic issues, and that the companies remain committed to their own pro-LGBT business policies. Still, that hasn't stopped pro-gay rights Minnesotans from boycotting Target and returning already purchased goods.

Now the Human Rights Campaign has entered the fray, taking out a full-page ad in the Star Tribune -- directed at both Target and Best Buy, which contributed another $100,000 to MN Forward, and signaling that the companies' support for Emmer could be a "horribly short-sighted business decision." See the ad here.

Key quote:

No matter your motivations in making these donations, they didn't occur in a vacuum. Same-sex couples in your home state are denied the equality given to other couples in marriage and many state leaders are poised to right that inequity very soon. $250,000 in contributions to those who would stand in the way is a punch in the gut to those of us who want to see all families treated fairly. What may have sounded like a "good business decision" in the board room turns out to be a horribly short-sighted business decision when millions of consumers lose respect for your companies.

With the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United, the landscape for political contributions has changed in ways that no one fully appreciates yet. Your foray into this uncharted water has proved choppy and should serve as a warning to other corporations mindful of the perceptions of LGBT and allied consumers.

Of course, Emmer has had his share of other problems, too. He has also faced attacks over his past DWI arrests. And of course, his claim that waiters were making over $100,000 in tips and hurting their employers led to some highly amusing attempts at damage control.

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Maxou · 18 Décembre 2011

anarchOi a dit: ↑

La chaine de magasin Best Buy viennent de faire un don de plus de $150,000 US a un candidat homophobe qui lutte contre le mariage gay et qui soutient un groupe de rock chrétien disant que c'est moral et correcte de tuer des gays et lesbiennes.

Plusieurs organismes ont dénoncés l'action de BestBuy et appellent au Boycott. En ce moment, la page facebook de BestBuy est pleine de critique de consommateurs, d'abord ils ont censuré tout ce qui était posté mais maintenant il y a trop de critique pour faire quoi que ce soit : la page facebook est inondé de dizaines de critiques à chaque heure.

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Pas besoin de redire sur quoi s'appuient les lobbys anti-gays... Et puis aussi dans ces groupes, on dit que les gays, ils risquent de remettre en cause la transmission du patrimoine, ils risquent de ne pas propager de "bonnes valeurs" bourgeoise et bien-pensantes... Tient! ça me fait penser à noël, ça : c'est la fête de quoi et de quoi ? La religion et la consommation à outrance : les 2 qui font la paire, ça marche ensemble depuis toujours... Et la même alliance pour combattre les gays, jusqu'à vouloir les tuer.

Faisons place aux idées progressistes et bien plus respectueuses de l'humanité que l'alliance religion/capitalisme. Les choses bougent et avancent, mais le combat n'est pas terminé!

Anar45 · 18 Décembre 2011

C'est beau tout sa tien. Ces mecs n'ont rien dans le crâne, c'est vraiment honteux.

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