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The Target boycott is spiraling out of control
[BUSINESSINSIDER] Target has become the central battleground of a vitriolic national debate
... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ...
 over transgender rights in the US.

Nearly 700,000 people have signed a pledge to boycott the retailer after it announced last week that it would welcome transgender customers to use any bathroom or fitting room that matches their gender identity.
People sign a lot of pledges without changing their behaviour. Virtue signalling is very satisfying; actually inconveniencing oneself for a principle is so dreadfully inconvenient.
The backers of the pledge -- including Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick -- claim that the policy poses a "danger to wives and daughters" and is "exactly how sexual predators get access to their victims."

Some critics are visiting Target stores across the country and demanding access to bathrooms of the opposite sex to support claims that "perverts" can now gain access to children and women as a result of the policy.

Greg Locke, a pastor at Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, posted a video outside a Target store saying he got permission to use the women's restroom when he questioned store management.

Posted by: Fred 2016-04-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=453953