http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:45:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-129594 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-129594#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:45:18 +0000 Ex-Target supporter http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-129594 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-129594/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128894 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128894#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:33:19 +0000 Abe Sauer http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128894 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128894/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128893 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128893#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:04:07 +0000 Jibreel Riley http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128893 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128893/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128370 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128370#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:29:54 +0000 wpuseuser http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128370 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-128370/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127706 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127706#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:15:13 +0000 Matt Baume http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127706 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127706/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127675 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127675#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:52:07 +0000 Juan Anon http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127675 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127675/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127619 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127619#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:01:49 +0000 barnhouse http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127619 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127619/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127473 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127473#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:02:21 +0000 scrooge http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127473 is a matter of principle: in a democracy, elections should be decided by the citizens thereof. Granted, this is a complicated issue. But the principle that elections should not be decided by the deep pockets of the society is a good one. Remember the "rotten boroughs" of pre-Reform England? Is that what we want here (as if we don't already have it)?]]> is a matter of principle: in a democracy, elections should be decided by the citizens thereof. Granted, this is a complicated issue. But the principle that elections should not be decided by the deep pockets of the society is a good one. Remember the "rotten boroughs" of pre-Reform England? Is that what we want here (as if we don't already have it)?]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127473/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127273 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127273#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:53:48 +0000 Scum http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127273 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127273/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127231 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127231#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:18:10 +0000 scrooge http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127231 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127231/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127174 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127174#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:39:06 +0000 laurel http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127174 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127174/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127047 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127047#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:51:53 +0000 NinetyNine http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127047 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127047/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127041 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127041#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:49:32 +0000 Matt http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127041 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127041/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127037 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127037#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:44:44 +0000 NinetyNine http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127037 Brown v. Board of Education to mount network of corporate, cultural and political opposition to Apartheid -- and most of the youngs probably don't know this, but on the corporate front in 1988 was was still really dicey (look at the list of artists who would play Sun City). So, yeah, it will be demographics that win this, and not for another 20 years. That sucks, but since there isn't screaming injustice like there was in Selma, boycotting a company that provides equal benefits to gay couples is not going make for an easy narrative of us vs. them. And the upshot of the victory is going to be... marriage? Wow. That's triangulation of the highest order and the xtains don't even realize how brilliant their strategy is. I think it's a tactical error to try and play both sides of the fence -- either you are at the barricades (look how well that has worked so far for the Tea Party), or you still choking on the fumes of Clintonian triangulation. Leftist groups love it when triangulation works to their limited favor (I'd say it never has, but that's a whole other point), and then think they can retreat to the 60s the minute they don't get their way. That's why we ended up with a shitty HCA.]]> Brown v. Board of Education to mount network of corporate, cultural and political opposition to Apartheid -- and most of the youngs probably don't know this, but on the corporate front in 1988 was was still really dicey (look at the list of artists who would play Sun City). So, yeah, it will be demographics that win this, and not for another 20 years. That sucks, but since there isn't screaming injustice like there was in Selma, boycotting a company that provides equal benefits to gay couples is not going make for an easy narrative of us vs. them. And the upshot of the victory is going to be... marriage? Wow. That's triangulation of the highest order and the xtains don't even realize how brilliant their strategy is. I think it's a tactical error to try and play both sides of the fence -- either you are at the barricades (look how well that has worked so far for the Tea Party), or you still choking on the fumes of Clintonian triangulation. Leftist groups love it when triangulation works to their limited favor (I'd say it never has, but that's a whole other point), and then think they can retreat to the 60s the minute they don't get their way. That's why we ended up with a shitty HCA.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127037/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127023 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127023#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:32:00 +0000 roboloki http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127023 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127023/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127021 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127021#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:30:09 +0000 doubled277 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-127021 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http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126992/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126980 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126980#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:59:32 +0000 Chris H http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126980 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126980/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126975 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126975#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:57:27 +0000 NinetyNine http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126975 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126975/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126966 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126966#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:46:11 +0000 DoctorDisaster http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126966 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126966/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126963 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126963#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:40:14 +0000 NinetyNine http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126963 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126963/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126957 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126957#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:36:32 +0000 Abe Sauer http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126957 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126957/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126954 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126954#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:33:02 +0000 Chris Conroy http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126954 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126954/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126939 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126939#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:19:22 +0000 NinetyNine http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126939 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126939/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126910 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126910#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:34 +0000 KarenUhOh http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126910 I appreciated the courtesy of the reply. Since you invited the follow-up, I'm wondering if Target would answer the further brief questions: 1. Does Target endorse, or intend to endorse, Tom Emmer for Governor of Minnesota? If not, why not? 2. Has Target made any political contribution to any PAC whose support is for any other gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota? If so, whom; and how much has Target contributed? 3. How does Target reconcile its support for Mr. Emmer, through its support for MN Forward, the PAC that he is working with, with Target's own commitment to providing fair and equal working conditions for GLBT workers, and with Target's public embrace of the GLBT community? Finally, and perhaps most critically, given the tenor of your response, on behalf of Target: If job promotion in Minnesota is such a critical component of Target's goals in electing political candidates, what is Target's commitment with respect to the number of jobs that it will create, and the number of jobs it will preserve, if the candidates Target endorses are elected? When I say "commitment," I would like to hear a specific number of jobs, as well as specific steps Target plans to take, in the event the candidates it supports take office. To date, I've received no reply.]]> I appreciated the courtesy of the reply. Since you invited the follow-up, I'm wondering if Target would answer the further brief questions: 1. Does Target endorse, or intend to endorse, Tom Emmer for Governor of Minnesota? If not, why not? 2. Has Target made any political contribution to any PAC whose support is for any other gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota? If so, whom; and how much has Target contributed? 3. How does Target reconcile its support for Mr. Emmer, through its support for MN Forward, the PAC that he is working with, with Target's own commitment to providing fair and equal working conditions for GLBT workers, and with Target's public embrace of the GLBT community? Finally, and perhaps most critically, given the tenor of your response, on behalf of Target: If job promotion in Minnesota is such a critical component of Target's goals in electing political candidates, what is Target's commitment with respect to the number of jobs that it will create, and the number of jobs it will preserve, if the candidates Target endorses are elected? When I say "commitment," I would like to hear a specific number of jobs, as well as specific steps Target plans to take, in the event the candidates it supports take office. To date, I've received no reply.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-target-ceo-chooses-business-over-gay-rights#comment-126910/feed 0