In its first episode of Pride Month, zen psaki zeroed in on sunday On the number of boycotts and the widespread social media blowback companies, from Target to Coles, Bud Light to the Los Angeles Dodgers, are facing for their public support of the LGBTQ community.
Psaki joked, “You may have noticed that the Republicans really like to present themselves as the ‘pro-business, anti-cancel culture party’ — but they also have businesses that openly promote LGBTQ+ rights.” There’s a big carve for.” Target’s highly competitive in-store pride displays, it’s not like “the rainbow is going to bite you”.
The MSNBC host of “Inside with Jen Psaki” opened the segment with how the above brands “are all facing outrage from the right for their LGBTQ+ partnerships and merchandise” and that minority vocal, Republican shoppers are “more than one Have melted” trans woman receiving a personalized beer can. They almost lost their minds over the sale of Pride flags on children’s clothing and the fit of some swimwear. This is what animates these right wing boycotts. But all this outcry and these boycotts from the pro-business wing of the party are actually hurting the bottom line for some of these companies — and Fox News can’t seem to have it any other way.
Psaki then aired a series of Fox News commentators – among them Harris Faulkner, Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham – fanning the flames against inclusiveness campaigns, including one commentator who said the store’s Pride displays She is “afraid to go shopping.”
“My favorite is the rainbow clothes that make her scared to go shopping, like the rainbow is going to bite her or something,” Psaki said after the Fox News clip ran. “But ‘wake up, break down’ — that’s what you heard over and over again. You know what that means? If you embrace the LGBTQ+ community, we’re going to try to bankrupt you. Guys, I mean, I do it all the time.” I go to Target like many of you, and if I see things I don’t want to buy for myself or my kids, I just keep walking around, that’s okay. No rainbow flags bugging me ”
Psaki then went on to say that we’re seeing more of this kind of pushback on Pride campaigns this year than others (for example, Target has been running elaborate displays for the better part of a decade, while Bud Light in 2019 put up a bar-wide display). cans of Rainbow beer were sold “all over the country”) because it’s a Hail Mary in the “culture war”.
“So why the heightened anger at this moment? What’s different? This isn’t business, this is the modern-day American right wing desperately trying to draw new battle lines in its culture war. They are searching for them,” she said. “For more than a year, the hard right wing and its media allies have mired themselves in a moral panic to such an extent that they are now enthusiastically rolling back LGBTQ+ rights and regularly talk about inclusion and Using language like indigenization, beautification and sexualisation. LGBTQ community. It’s become such a race to the bottom to undermine diversity, equity and inclusion that they’re running out of things – they can’t find them, they’re on a quest.
Watch MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” segment in the video above.
